These links to information about the 1960s provide further resources for your study. We hope you find them useful and informative. We try to check them periodically, but we cannot be responsible for their availability or content. If you see problems with response or content at any of these sites, please notify that site's webmaster.

General

• African Americans in History (Institute for African American Studies, University of Georgia)
• Apollo 11 (Kennedy Space Center, NASA)
• A Biography of Jack Ruby (Warren Commission Report)
• The Detroit housewife who moved a nation toward racial justice (Viola Gregg Liuzzo) (Rearview Mirror, The Detroit News)
• The Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum
• Head Start
• JFK Assassination Records (National Archives and Records Administration)
• The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., A Biographical Sketch (Louisiana State University Libraries)
• Libraries Dedicate Cesar E. Chavez Collection (Michigan State University)
• Michigan's Constitution of 1963  [PDF]
• On the Air! Michigan Radio and Television Broadcasting 1920 - 2000 (Click on the 1960s link.)
• The Peace Corps
• Transactions between Lee Harvey Oswald and Marina Oswald, and the U.S. Department of State and the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the U.S. Department of Justice (Warren Commission Report)
• U. S. History Standards, Era 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
• A Visual Journey: Photographs by Lisa Law 1965-1971 (Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Behring Center)
• George Wallace (Grolier Online)
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte Press, 1995) - Teacher's Guide.

Speeches

• I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King Jr. (University of Minnesota Extension)
• Presidential Inaugural Select "U.S. Inaugurals" in the Reference drop-down menu. (Columbia University Bartleby Library)
• Selected Gerald R. Ford Speeches and Writings (Gerald R. Ford Library)
• Toastmasters International
• Speeches (The History Channel)
• The Vincent Voice Library at Michigan State University

Music

• All-Music Guide, A searchable on-line database of recorded music (Matrix Software, Big Rapids, Michigan)
• "Any Old Way You Choose It": Popular Music as an Introduction to American Studies, essay by Professor Daniel Czitrom
• Aretha Franklin (Kennedy Center Honors, 1994)
• Michigan Music Industry Personalities
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
• Stevie Wonder (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum)

Updated 10/03/2005

Michigan Historical Center, Department of History, Arts and Libraries
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