We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
A "National Registry of Historic Places Travel Itinerary"
covering 42 places of significance with regard to the postwar
African-American civil rights movement. Churches, colleges,
private homes, places of business, neighborhoods, and government
offices, primarily located in the South, are each described in
300-word entries illustrated with one or two photographs. An
introductory 5,000-word essay offers a narrative history of the
movement with annotations to specific sites. Focuses on the
1950s and 1960s, with no attempt to cover civil rights struggles
of groups other than African Americans. A few sites cover events
and persons active prior to the 1950s, such as Ida B. Wells's
home in Chicago and the W. E. B. Du Bois Homesite in Great
Barrington, MA. Users can access sites from a map of the U.S. or
by a list organized by states. Information for visiting each
site is also provided, as is a list of 39 related websites and a
34-title bibliography. Th