This page gathers resources in NCpedia that broadly cover the history and heritage of the Civil Rights Movement in North Carolina. It does not include all resources in NCpedia but rather a selection that covers important topics and events, including: background articles; events; politics and law; organizations and agencies; biographies; oral histories and personal accounts; and historic sites and monuments. These topics include many aspects of the movement for Civil Rights in North Carolina, including African American, Native American, and Women's history.

Table of Contents

Civil Rights Background articles
Civil Rights Events
Civil Rights Politics and Law
Civil Rights Organizations, Agencies and Meetings
Civil Rights Selected Biographies
Civil Rights Oral Histories and Personal Accounts
Civil Rights: Selected Historic Sites and Monuments
Civil Rights Educator Resources

Civil Rights Background articles

American Indians, Sovereignty
Basketball and Civil Rights
Cherokee: Federal recognition and fight for Cherokee Rights
Civil Rights Movement multi-part article
Civil Rights Sits-Ins
Discrimination
Eugenics
Greensboro Four
Greensboro Sit-Ins
Labor Unions and Civil Rights Unionism
Lumbee Indians: Education, Civil Rights
Lynching
Segregation article
Segregation all NCpedia articles relating to segregation
Women multi-part article
Women Earn the Right to Vote
Women Suffrage
All NCpedia entries related to Civil Rights

Civil Rights Events

Constitutional Convention, 1868: "Black Caucus"
Congress of Racial Equality
Death to the Klan March
Freedom Rallies: Williamston, N.C., 1963
Wilmington Coup, 1898
Royal Ice Cream Sit-In, 1957
PCB Protests, Catalyst of the Environmental Justice Movement
Environmental Justice Movement

Civil Rights Politics and Law

Brown v. Board of Education
Charlotte Three
Convention of 1835
Disenfranchisement
Election Law
Emancipation
Eugenics Board
Fourteenth Amendment
Pearsall Plan
Plessy v. Ferguson
Pupil Assignment Act
School Desegregation
Speaker Ban Law
State Constitution all NCpedia articles
State v. Manuel
First Women Marines

Civil Rights Organizations, Agencies and Meetings

Black Panther Party
Committee for Economic and Racial Justice
Congress of Racial Equality
Equal Rights League
Freedmen's Conventions
NC Commission of Indian Affairs
North Carolina Equal Suffrage Association
Radio Free Dixie
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
White Citizens' Councils
Wilmington Ten

Civil Rights Selected Biographies

Angelou, Maya
Baker, Ella
Brown, Charlotte Hawkins
Chestnutt, Charles Waddell
Cooper, Anna Julia Haywood
Frinks, Golden
Galloway, Abraham
Graham, Frank Porter
Green, Paul Eliot
Greensboro Four
Harris, James Henry
Holland, Anna Wealthy
Hyman, John Adams
Jones, John
Kester, Howard Anderson
Larkins, John Rodman
Lowe, Dazelle Foster
Mabley, Jackie
Manly, Alex
Mitchell, John W.
Murray, Anna Pauline (Pauli)
Perry, Samuel L.
Price, Joseph Charles
Ralston, Elreta Melton
Richardson, Willis
Riddick, Elsie Garnett
Scruggs, Lawson Andrew
Shepard, James Edward
Simone, Nina
Spaulding, Charles Clinton
Thorpe, Earlie Endris
Tourgee, Albion Winegar
Weil, Gertrude
Wheeler, John Hervey
Wiggins, Ella May
Wright, Marion Allen

Civil Rights Oral Histories and Personal Accounts

Bethea-Shields, Karen: In Joan Little's Cell Joan Little Murder Trial
Cannady, Mary: At Dr. King's House
Forbes, David: The Birth of the SNCC Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
Fleming, Karl: Show me Life
Grant, Gary: A Boy Scout Jamborree to Remember
Sanders, Bunny: Serpents and Doves

Civil Rights: Selected Historic Sites and Monuments

Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum
Durham's Black Wall Street
Greensboro Four Monument
First Light of Freedom Monument
Nina Simone Sculpture, Tryon
Palmer Memorial Institute
Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony
Woolworth store, Greensboro NCpedia articles relating to Sit-In Movement

Civil Rights Educator Resources

Civil Rights Lesson Plan State Archives of North Carolina
Grade 8: Living History: Local Voices of the Civil Rights Movement North Carolina Civic Education Consortium
Grade 8: Journey of Reconciliation, 1947 North Carolina Civic Education Consortium
Grade 8: Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr. North Carolina Civic Education Consortium
Grade 8: Freedom Rides of 1961 North Carolina Civic Education Consortium
Grade 8: Sitting Down To Stand Up For Democracy North Carolina Civic Education Consortium
Grade 8: North Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1835 North Carolina Civic Education Consortium
Grade 8: Creating a Civil Rights Quilt North Carolina Civic Education Consortium
Grade 8: Symbols and Words of Hate North Carolina Civic Education Consortium
Grade 8: NC’s Lumbee Fight for Justice:The Battle at Hayes Pond in Maxton, NC North Carolina Civic Education Consortium
Grade 8: Poor Power: The North Carolina Fund & the Battle to End Poverty & Ineq… North Carolina Civic Education Consortium
Grade 8: School Segregation North Carolina Civic Education Consortium
Grade 8: Moments in the Lives of Engaged Citizens who Fought Jim Crow North Carolina Civic Education Consortium
Grade 8: North Carolina Constitution: An Introduction to NC’s State Constitutio… North Carolina Civic Education Consortium
Grade 8: Albion Tourgee and the Fight for Civil Rights North Carolina Civic Education Consortium
Grade 8: Exploring Life in 1898 Wilmington & the Wilmington Race Riot with Crow… North Carolina Civic Education Consortium
Grade 8: Nineteenth Amendment North Carolina Civic Education Consortium

Citation

"Exploring North Carolina: The Civil Rights Movement." NCpedia. State Library of NC. March 2025. https://www.ncpedia.org/exploring-north-carolina-civil-rights-movement.