AboutFor Educators: Voting Rights Act of 1965
Unit Resources
Visit the Avoice exhibit on the Voting Rights Act.
Teachers
Chafe, William H. Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South. The New Press, New York. 2001
Marable, Manning, Leith Muelings. Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal: An African American Anthology. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland. 2003
Pauley, Garth. Lyndon B. Johnson's American Promise: The 1965 Voting Rights Act. Palgrave MacMillan, New York. 1995
Taylor, William. Voting Rights in America: Continuing the Quest for Full Participation. University of Illinois Press, Champaign, IL. 1992
Students
Aretha, David. Selma and the Voting Rights Act, Civil Rights Movement Series. Morgan Reynolds Publishing, Greensboro, North Carolina. 2007
Colman, Penny. Fannie Lou Hamer and the Fight for the Vote. Millbrook Press, Brookfield, Connecticut. 1993
Harvey, Miles, Women's Voting Rights: Story of 19th Amendment. The Children's Press, San Francisco, California. 1998
Letwin, Laura. Fannie Lou Hamer: Fighting for the Right to Vote. Enslow Publishers, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. 2002
Lusane, Clarence. No Easy Victories: Black Americans and the Vote. Franklin Watts Publisher, London, United Kingdom. 1996
Scott, John H. with Cleo Scott Brown. Witness to the Truth: My Struggle for Human Rights in Louisiana. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia. 2003
Scriabine, Christine. Black Voting Rights: The Fight for Equality. Jackdaw Publishers, Amawalk, New York. 1992 (Out-of-Print, must obtain from local library)
Avoice: African American Voice in Congress
www.avoiceonline.org
Congressional Black Caucus (CBC)
www.thecongressionalblackcaucus.com
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF)
www.cbcfinc.org
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
www.lccr.org
The Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov
The National Archives
www.archives.gov/education
The National Park Service: Teaching with Historic Places
The Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March: Shaking the Conscience of the Nation
http://www.nps.gov/history/NR/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/133SEMO/133selma.htm
