Civil Rights in America: A Framework for Identifying Significant Sites

2008

By: Antoinette Lee, National Historic Landmarks Program, Susan Salvatore

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalhistoriclandmarks/upload/Civil-Rights-Framework-2018.pdf
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Historic Preservation

This report walks through periods of civil rights history and identifies major figures and events. It finds that while some civil rights sites are recognized by the National Park Service, there are still several that are not. Table 1 lists all the currently recognized civil rights sites by period and a reading list documents resources by theme.