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Brookline High School Library
Comparative Civil Rights Essay (Ms. Frey)

**BHS Online Databases: (to access from home, pick up a password sheet in the Library)**

 * [|World Book Encyclopedia]
 * [|Encyclopedia Britannica]
 *  [|Gale Virtual Reference Library] (includes //St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture// and //Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America// e-books)
 * [|Biography Resource Center] (in-depth encyclopedia articles about really important people)
 * [|Historical New York Times] (from 1851-2004)
 * [|Student Resource Center Bronze]
 * [|Opposing Viewpoints]

**Useful Books include: (check Civil Rights book cart in the library)**

 * //National Geographic: Eyewitness to the Twentieth Century// 909.82
 * //Great Events From History: North American Series IV// REF 970 Gre.4
 * //Native American Issues// REF 970 Tho
 * //Social Movements of the 1960s// 303.484 Bur
 * //Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights// 1945-1990 305.9 Mar
 * //The Civil Rights Movement: An Eyewitness History// 323.1 Wex
 * //Sal Si Puedes: Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution// 331.89 Mat
 * //Civil Rights: The 1960 Freedom Struggle// 342.73 Blu
 * //The Equal Rights Amendment: The History and the Movement// 342.73 Whi

Non Reference books may be checked out overnight.

**Websites:**

 * [|Martin Luther King, Jr. Newspaper Archive]
 * [|Civil Rights Digital Library]
 * [|Civil Rights Timeline: Milestones in the Modern Civil Rights Movement]
 *  [|The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers’ Struggle (PBS)]
 * [|The Native American Movement]
 * [|A Brief History of the American Indian Movement] 
 * [|The American Gay Rights Movement: A Timeline]
 * [|ACLU and the History of LGBT Rights & HIV/AIDS]
 * [|Chicago Women’s Liberation Union (CWLU) Herstory Project]