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This web map application shows that even beaches have been battlegrounds for Civil Rights Movements.  For teachers, this resource is an example of the various types of cultural landscapes involved in the fight against racial inequality.

This web map application was developed by the KGA as a way for teachers to navigate to the websites of various NPS Civil Rights places across the U.S.  An ideal way to use this resource is to have students write and share the "story" of Civil Rights place.

This web map, created by Curbed, maps all of the new civil rights monuments, parks, and historic homes.  This map would provided teachers with a valuable survey of how people use the cultural landscape to preserve the important elements of Civil Rights history in the United States. 

Gerrymandering has gained attention as a major contemporary civil rights issue.  Silicon Valley Data Science authored a series of web maps that show the inequities associated with redrawing U.S. congressional districts. 

The New York Times wrote a piece that discussed the racial and financial inequities in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.  The article includes a series of web maps showing these geographic dynamics. 

Mapped by the University of Durham, YouCitizen story maps that address the interconnections between place, belonging, and citizenship in the divided societies of Lebanon, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Cyprus.  Each map includes videography.

This mapping project was developed by the University of Washington.  Here, you will find a series of interactive maps relating to Black Freedom Movements, Chicano/Latino Movements, Women's Movements, 1960s-70s Movements, and Labor Movements.

This web application allows the user to view the variety of digital historical maps provided by the David Rumsey Map Collection.  These maps are ideal for providing historical contexts to civil rights movements.

The Library of Congress has one of the most expansive selections of historic maps found online.  On their website, teachers can search keywords and time periods to locate maps that relate to their civil rights curriculum.

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Web Maps

Web maps (also Internet maps) are readily available resources to supplement discussion about civil rights issues.  As visualizations, they allow students to learn about civil rights through multiple ways of thinking, including graphicacy, literacy, spatial thinking, and, more boradly, geoliteracy. 

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