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<!DOCTYPE html><html> <HEAD>  <script async src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-90RP5FMTSY'></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-90RP5FMTSY'); </script> <TITLE>CAIN: Events: Civil Rights Campaign - menu</TITLE> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="Author" content="Dr Martin Melaugh" /> <META name="Description" content="CAIN: Events: Civil Rights Campaign - menu" /> <META name="KeyWords" content="conflict, troubles, ireland, northern ireland, ulster, irish, civil rights, civil rights campaign, civil rights movement, human rights, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, NICRA, protest, campaign for social justice, CSJ, Derry, Belfast, 1968, 1969" /> <script language="JavaScript" src="/aajs/functions.js"></script> </head> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"><center><table width=600><tr><td><A NAME="top"></A> <HR NOSHADE SIZE="1" /><img src="/images/cainlogo.gif" border="0" align="left" /> <CENTER><FONT FACE="Arial" COLOR="#770101">CAIN Web Service</FONT></CENTER> <h3 align=center>Key Events - Civil Rights Campaign (1964-1972)</h3> <BR clear=ALL /> <HR NOSHADE SIZE="1" /> <CENTER> <A href="/index.html">[CAIN_Home]</A> <br /> <A href="/events/index.html"><b>[KEY_EVENTS]</b></A> <A href="/issues/index.html">[Key_Issues]</A> <A href="/othelem/index.html">[Conflict_Background]</A> <br /> <b>CIVIL RIGHTS:</b> <a href="/events/crights/crights.htm">[Menu]</a> <a href="/events/crights/read.htm">[Reading]</a> <a href="/events/crights/sum.htm">[Summary]</a> <!a href="/events/crights/bac.htm">[Background]</a> <a href="/events/crights/chron.htm">[Chronology]</a> <a href="/events/crights/crights.htm#main">[Main_Pages]</a> <a href="/events/crights/newspapers/scott.htm">[Newspaper_Articles]</a> <a href="/events/crights/source.htm">[Sources]</a> <br /> </CENTER> <HR NOSHADE SIZE="1" /> <CENTER> <B>Page Compiled</B><B>:</B> Martin Melaugh and Fionnuala McKenna<BR /> <I><font color=#ff0000>Material is added to this site on a regular basis - information on this page may change</font></I> </CENTER> <HR noshade size=4 />  <center> <img src="/events/crights/nicra/crp6.jpg" border=0 vspace=10 hspace=10 /><br /> <font size=-1>This photograph of a civil rights demonstration in Derry <br /> is from the book <a href="/events/crights/nicra/nicra78.htm">'We Shall Overcome'</a>.</font> </center> <p> <img src="/images/bluesq10.gif" alt="blue square icon" border="0" height="10" width="10" /> Selected <A href="/events/crights/read.htm">reading</A> list </p> <p> <img src="/images/bluesq10.gif" alt="blue square icon" border="0" height="10" width="10" /> <a href="/events/crights/sum.htm">Summary</a> </p> <p> <img src="/images/bluesq10.gif" alt="blue square icon" border="0" height="10" width="10" /> <!a href="/events/crights/bac.htm">Background</a> </p><ul> See also:<br /> <li> The <a href="/events/derry/derry.htm">Derry march</a>, 5 October 1968<br /> </li><li> The <a href="/events/pdmarch/pdmarch.htm">People's Democracy march</a>, 1-4 January 1969<br /> </li><li> Information on the issue of <a href="/issues/discrimination/index.html">discrimination</a> </li></ul> <p></p> <p> <img src="/images/bluesq10.gif" alt="blue square icon" border="0" height="10" width="10" /> <a href="/events/crights/chron.htm">Chronology</a> </p> <p> <a name="main"></a> <img src="/images/bluesq10.gif" alt="blue square icon" border="0" height="10" width="10" /> Main Pages </p> <ul> <p> Devlin, Bernadette. (1969), <a href="/events/crights/devlin69.htm">The Price of My Soul</a>. London: Pan Books Ltd.</p> <p> McCann, Eamonn. (1993) <a HREF="/events/crights/mccann93.htm">War and an Irish Town</a>. (3rd ed.) London: Pluto Press.</p> <p> <img src="/events/crights/McCluskey/McCluskey_1989_Up_fc_200.jpg" border="1" height="100" vspace="5" hspace="10" align="right" /> <b>McCluskey, Conn. </b>(1989). <a href="/events/crights/McCluskey/">Up off their Knees: A Commentary on the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland</a>. Galway: Conn McCluskey and Associates.<font size="1" color="lightgray" face="arial"> ... [1200] - [Book] </font> <br /> <font color="#C10000">[Full contents now available] </font><br clear="all" /></p> <p> Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA). (1978) <a HREF="/events/crights/nicra/nicra78.htm">"We Shall Overcome" .... The History of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland 1968-1978</a>. Belfast: Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA).</p> <p> Ó Dochartaigh, Fionnbarra. (1994) <a href="/events/crights/odochart.htm">'The Homeless Revolt'</a>, Chapter 3 (pp.39-74) in, Ulster's White Negroes: from civil rights to insurrection. Edinburgh: AK Press.</p> <p> <img src="/events/crights/purdie/purdie90fct.jpg" border="1" vspace="5" hspace="10" align="right" /> Purdie, Bob. (1990). '<a href="/events/crights/purdie/index.html">Politics in the Streets: The origins of the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland</a>'. Belfast: Blackstaff Press.<br /> <font color="#C10000">[Full contents now available] </font><br clear="all" /> </p> <p> Stetler, Russell. (1970) <a href="/events/battlebogside/stetler/stetler70.htm">The Battle of Bogside: the politics of violence in Northern Ireland</a>. London: Sheed and Ward.</p> </ul> <p> <img src="/images/bluesq10.gif" alt="blue square icon" border="0" height="10" width="10" /> <a href="/events/crights/newspapers/scott.htm">Calendar of Newspaper Articles</a> dealing with Civil Rights issues, 1 June 1968 - 9 December 1968 compiled by Alan Scott </p> <p> <img src="/images/bluesq10.gif" alt="blue square icon" border="0" height="10" width="10" /> Details of <a href="/events/crights/source.htm">source</A> material </p> <p> <img src="/images/bluesq10.gif" alt="blue square icon" border="0" height="10" width="10" /> External Web Sites:<br /> </p><blockquote> <li><strong>RTE Archives</strong> > <a href="https://www.rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/1031-civil-rights-movement-1968-9/" target="_blank">Civil Rights in NI</a> <img src="/images/extlink.gif" border="0" width="12" height="10" alt="Opens a new browser window." /><br /> Contemporary film and audio reports by RTE.</li> <li><strong>BBC</strong> > History > <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/histories/troubles" target="_blank">The Troubles</a> <img src="/images/extlink.gif" border="0" width="12" height="10" alt="Opens a new browser window." /></li> <li><strong>BBC</strong> > Canvas Story > <a href="https://canvas-story.bbcrewind.co.uk/troubled-times/" target="_blank">Troubled Times</a> <img src="/images/extlink.gif" border="0" width="12" height="10" alt="Opens a new browser window." /></li> <li><strong>BBC</strong> > Canvas Story > <a href="https://canvas-story.bbcrewind.co.uk/sites/usatc/" target="_blank">"Ulster Stands at the Crossroads"</a> <img src="/images/extlink.gif" border="0" width="12" height="10" alt="Opens a new browser window." /></li> </blockquote> <p> </p> <hr noshade size="1" /> <p>If anyone has information about these events and is interested in making a contribution to the above pages, they should read the CAIN <a href="/othelem/contrib.htm">guidelines</a> for contributions and then contact the CAIN Director by <a 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