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| photo coutesy of www.schoolhousevideo.org |
“I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the
greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of
withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro is still not free.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
People of all
ethnicities participated in the Black American Civil Rights Movement of the fifties and sixties. Because of this movement
the creators of the BACRightsDL have been able to forge an enduring friendship, work, eat, study and live together without
fear of persecution. This project was produced as a way to educate society on the Black America Civil Rights Movement; it
was also developed as a way to provide users with related resources about this period in history. We hope that students, researchers
and anyone else interested in this time period will find something that moves them within this digital library.
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Mission Statement
The mission of the Black American Civil Rights Movement Multimedia Digital Library or BACRightsDL is to educate society about the Black American Civil Rights Movement and celebrate its advances.
BACRightsDL also selects, collects, digitizes, and organizes Black American Civil Rights materials dated from 1954
to 1968 to create a digital library for access and use by anyone interested in this time period.
Collection Policy
- Websites must be .org, .gov, .edu or .com
- Publicly published books which have been critically reviewed by BACrightsDL curators
- Images must be developed between 1954-1968
- Audio must be recorded between 1954-1968
- Video footage/News reels must be made between 1954-1970
- Biographies- Civil rights leaders and public figures that helped progress the movement
- News Stories/Broadcasts-sources must be acclaimed producers of news or members of the
associated press
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