Black Lives Matter: Historical Context: Internet Sources

- Contains the "completion of the definitive, multi-volume edition of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.;"
- Provides educational resources for "curriculum materials and lesson plans"

From The King Institute at Stanford. Search or browse select topics.

"Young activists and organizers with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC...focused on voter registration and on mounting a systemic challenge to the white supremacy that governed the country’s entrenched political, economic and social structures."

"The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Legacy Project (SLP) was begun to preserve and extend SNCC's legacy...the SLP is taking a multi-level approach: archiving SNCC documents digitally to make them easily available for use."

Explore resources related to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

Explore resources related to the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

"A Black Power method moves to destabilize or interrogate dominant white perspectives in mainstream media outlets, government records, and in the very definition of what constitutes a credible source."

"Black Power in American Memory - A Class Project for AMST 384: Myth and History and American Memory, UNC at Chapel Hill"

article by Keri Leigh Merritt discussing the early origins of the black resistance in "post-Civil War South".

"An illustration in a brochure explaining the platform of Alabama’s Lowndes County Freedom Organization"

Digitized pamphlet housed at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

June 13, 1966 newspaper article from The Movement, a publication from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of California

"A discussion with Stokely Carmichael, field secretary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Lowndes County, Alabama. As an organizer of the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO), also known as the Black Panther Party, Carmichael discusses the importance of maintaining political power inside communities at the county level and of remaining outside of the Democratic Party to avoid compromises that would harm African Americans."

"A selection of an interview with Angela Davis regarding revolution and violence."

digitized materials provided by the Digital Public Library of America.