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The site for The Center, a community center for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender community, promotes many resources for everyone. There a tabs available on the site for events, causes supported by the organization, health programs, support for parenting and foster care, and general information on the organization. The center stays up to date on recent news and movements and, even though the target population is the LGBT community, provides and encourages and safe and healthy life for everyone.

This is a powerful website. It presents the reader with biographies, images and archives of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which Rosa Parks served as the catalyst for. This website tells the stories of a portion of the hundreds of other people involved in this movement. Rosa Parks is often dubbed as the mother of civil rights but there are many others who were involved and very seldom are they talked about. This website shares the voices of people who were there in the midst of it and people who were affected, such as children sharing memories of deceased parents. There are video clips and articles, it's really a treasure.

This site focus's on who Rosa really was. She was raised by two parents and born in Alabama. Rosa had one sibling and she and was home schooled until she was eleven years old. As a child she suffered from chronic tonsillitis. There was no surprise when Rosa decided to take her famous stand , considering that at an early age she figured out that there was a white world and a black one. She witnessed segregation everywhere from transportation, education and most community services. Not being blind to what was going on around her made her become a member of the civil rights movement in 1943. She joined a group called the NAACP and became the secretary to the president. She held that position until 1957.

This is part of "Child Psychology, A Contemporary Viewpoint" which discusses gender-role standards and stereotypes, gender differences in development, biological factors in gender differences, the influence of the family on gender typing, and extrafamilial influences on gender roles.

This website is covering child psychology and children's development related to gender. This page discusses gender roles, stereotypes, and differences. Also mentioned briefly is that there is no evidence of differed gender roles if boys and girls raised by gays and lesbians. Other influences on gender roles, including television and school is discussed. Also mentioned is the fact that most people, especially children are actually to various degrees both masculine and feminine, not completely one or the other.

This CNN.money site combines information from CNN plus Fortune and Money magazines. This article by David Whitford of Fortune magazine goes into some detail about the story behind the photograph we are studying this week. The woman in the photo (taken when she was only 27 years old) is identified as Allie Mae Burroughs. Her son, Charles Burroughs recalls what life was like for him and his family during the Depression years.

This is an article of the return to Hale County, Alabama to speak with the descendants of Walker Evans' famous depression era portraits.  In this interview with Charles Burroughs, the son of Allie Mae Burroughs, he describes vividly the backdrop to the famous portrait.  The tough life of the depression era is evident in the portrait of 27 year old Allie Mae who looks like hard work has aged her and her eyes well beyond 27 years.

The son of Allie Burroughs swore he would never do what he's doing right now (an interview)," says Charles Burroughs. Tall and broad with a bald pate and those familiar gray eyes. Blue shirt, khaki pants, aviator glasses. Thick, flat fingers, grit under the nails. He has come reluctantly to meet me after work at a Waffle House in Tuscaloosa. Still angry after all these years at how a writer and a photographer on assignment for this magazine moved into his house when he was just a boy, 4 years old (he remembers the day), and stayed for weeks, and while the family was working in the fields, snooped around in dresser drawers and under beds, and took notes, and took pictures, and shared what they had taken with all the world. James Agee and Walker Evans gave us a lasting image of the Depression; Charles Burroughs and his family got squat. This site lets you in to the confusion and heart ache of the children of Allie-Mae Burroughs, the psychological aftermath the children has endured in their working situations. It also expresses how Charles Burroughs parents worked and just never had a chance, in a mostly African American area, making some 5.50 and dropping to 5.15 and hour if late to work once, or ever have to leave before the line shuts down for the day, to support a family. It also touches on the editors from Fortune who sent Agee and Evans south wanted them to write about poor whites. That they found their subjects in Hale County was more than a little perverse. Most of the county's people, and an even higher percentage of the poor people, were and are African American. This site also gives incite into the black society in this era i.e. - one Yolanda Robinson, who worked in quality control for a seafood company, is a sharecropper's granddaughter and is black. She won prizes for elocution in high school, joined the Navy, married young, and was widowed in her 20s. On her second stint at the catfish plant, had hoped she'd never have to