Civil Liberties and Equal Rights

For College Students and Adults of All Ages

Adult study groups - or individuals - have many sources to turn to when the topics are civil liberties and equal rights.  Here are just a few examples:

American Civil Liberties Union:  http://www.aclu.org/
The web site for the ACLU featuring statements on various issues from the death penalty to student rights. You will find highlights of the ACLU's actions, learn what Congress is doing about each issue, and find links to other resources.

African American Odyssey: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/
A Library of Congress exhibition, The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship showcases the Library's African American collections including  a wide array of rare books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, plays, films, and recordings.

US Constitution: Bill of Rights: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/rights1.htm
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School hosts this online version of The Bill of Rights.

Votes for Women (pictorial exhibit)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
A Library of Congress exhibition, Votes for Women: Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920, includes photographs of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, and an anti-suffrage display, as well as cartoons.

Votes for Women (textual exhibit)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html
167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts document the suffrage campaign. The collection includes works from the libraries of other members and officers of the organization including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Smith Miller, and Mary A. Livermore.