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Civil Rights on the News
	Reporting Civil Rights (the LOA Anthology) http://www.reportingcivilrights.org/ This timeline from 1941 to 1973 presents the reporters and journalism of the American Civil Rights Movement. Over 100 reporters are featured along with short biographies, bibliographies and some selected texts in this anthology from the Library of America.
	Television News of the Civil Rights Era http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/civilrightstv/ Website project contains Films & Summaries, Primary Documents, Oral Histories and other documents aimed to present television news footage from the period 1950-1970, and to make these valuable materials available to scholars, teachers, and students. Rare footage includes full speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, the governors of the Commonwealth of Virginia, as well as original footage of school desegregation, public meetings, local debates over civil rights matters, and interviews with citizens.
Updates from the Newsroom
	Houston Chronicle (February 1, 2006) "Civil Rights Movement Losing Icons, Focus" By ERIN TEXEIRA AP National Writer http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/3628647.html Amid their grief over the death of Coretta Scott King, black advocates say that her passing underscores a growing concern: As the movement's iconic leaders fade into history, much of the focus is on honoring the past rather than pushing for equality today.
	The Washington Post (June 26, 2005) A March that Longtime Activists Still Walk: Sentencing in Civil Rights Workers Deaths Heightens Hope for More Progress. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/25/AR2005062501101_pf.html

[Last updated on February 1, 2006 ]