Community Tools

There has been a gratifyingly responsive audience for CRP's work. With the opportunity this affords, however, comes a certain responsibility to work harder to provide support to several sectors.

Civil Rights Action Kits
Provide basic information for understanding, detecting, and fighting discriminatory attitudes and actions in your school's policies and practices.

• Discrimination in Special Education
• Zero Tolerance and School Discipline

Civil Rights in Brief
In an effort to help the community understand current basic concerns about civil rights, we have published the following nine short documents which summarize these issues and can help you learn what you can do to protect them.

• Access to College
• Discrimination in Special Education
• Dropouts: Keeping Students in School (in PDF Format)
• Gate-Keeping: Allowing All Children Access to Advanced Courses (in PDF Format)
• Resegregation in American Schools
• School Choice (in PDF Format)
• Testing: The Need and the Dangers
• Title I: Better Schooling for Educationally Deprived Students
• Zero Tolerance Policies and School Discipline

Some of the above documents are in PDF format only , but we hope to have them in HTML format soon.

Civil Rights Brochures

• Know Your Rights on Campus: A Guide on Racial Profiling and Hate Crimes for International Students in the United States
• Protecting the Religious Freedom of All Americans: Federal Laws Against Religious Discrimination. U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division. (in PDF Format)

Housing

• HUD - Department of Housing and Urban Development - Housing Discrimination
• National Fair Housing Advocate Web Site - Index Page
• The Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston

Teaching and Learning

• Civil Rights: An Overview. Legal Information Institute, Cornell University.
• The Civil Rights Movement
• Facing History and Ourselves - Online Campus resources
• Audio History of the Civil Rights Movement [Note: Site is down. Archived site is retrieved from the Internet Archive.]
• King Center
• Museum of Afro American History