5 online resources for learning more about Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights movement

Looking to learn more about the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy? Here are some websites that offer rich starting points. 

America's Black Holocaust Museum: The legacy of James Cameron lives online, at least until its new home is completed. (Cameron, who escaped a lynching in 1930 in Indiana, turned his years of research into a museum of the African-American experience to ensure no one would forget. The museum, opened in 1988, closed its doors in 2008, two years after Cameron's death.) The online version includes numerous galleries and other useful resources. 

Website: abhmuseum.org  

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The King Center: If you want to learn more about King, go to the source. Formally known as the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, the center is designed as a living resource both for exploring the past and moving into the future. It has a bounty of historical documents and articles to browse through, including several related to King's visits to and interactions with Milwaukee. 

Website: thekingcenter.org  

National Parks Service: Historical Places of the Civil Rights Movement: The National Parks Service's site has an interactive map of historic sites from the civil rights era that is informative, easy to use and filled with rich detail. 

Website: nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights 

National Museum of African American History and Culture: Opening its doors in 2016, the museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution, has become one of Washington, D.C.'s most compelling destinations. Its website is no slouch, either — super easy to use and filled with stunning historic and cultural images that bring the African-American experience to life. 

Website: nmaahc.si.edu 

50-Year Ache: The website for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's ongoing examination of the 1967 open housing marches — and the legacy of that era in the half-century since  — has a wealth of additional information, from a digital timeline to video interviews with participants in the open housing marches to an expansive gallery of photos from the 1960s to today. It's also the home page for continuing coverage on the conditions that fostered those protests 50 years ago, and how things have and have not changed since. 

Website: jsonline.com/50years 

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