Civil rights in the United States. 2000 2 vols.
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Library Catalog
Catalog of materials in The University Libraries.
Keyword Searching (using search connectors "and" "or")
Popular and African American Press
New York Times Historical via ProQuest
• Provides full images from 1851 to 1999.
Ethnic Newswatch
• Full text of 300 ethnic and minority newspapers, newsletters and periodicals, 1960 - present.
More info
Readers' Guide Retrospective
• Indexes over 500 magazines 1890 – 1982
More info
Search Journal Finder for other bound journals: Freedomways, The Student Voice.
Lexis-Nexis Congressional
The richest sources are in published Congressional hearings since 1963.
Use “Historical Indexes.” Search by subject or witness. (i.e. “riots”) (Martin Luther King).
These materials are held in the Government Documents area on the second floor.
Lexis-Nexis Academic
Click on "Reference" on the left side of the page. Then click on "Polls and Surveys."
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University [Cited in Syllabus as MLKPP]
Under “Published Documents”: King “Speeches” and “Sermons” published recently by Time Warner. These are actual transcripts with notes of audience response. Under “About King,” see especially “Encyclopedia,” compiled by the staff of the Project, “Biography,” and “Chronology,” very detailed with hypertext links to various biographical and other web sites.
Civil Rights Movement Veterans
”A non-commercial website created by civil rights workers who were active in the Southern Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s. We provide movement history and background, a speakers list and veteran contact information, personal stories, narratives and interviews, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), and an extensive movement-related bibliography and list of web links.”
Veterans Roll Call: 272 brief self-portraits, many with links or longer narratives.
The 1960 Greensboro Sit-ins
Greensboro News and Record and the Greensboro Public Library.
Audio interviews by Jim Schlosser and the Library staff. Click “multimedia”
“Media/Headlines” consist mostly of News and Record Articles commemorating the sit-ins.
The Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike, 1968
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Memphis: We Remember. http://www.afscme.org/about/memphist.htm
Links to oral history, retrospective accounts from the AFSCME newspaper and several scholarly articles and photographs.
Freedom School Curriculum, Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964, Edited and Introduced by Kathy Emery, Sylvia Braselmann, and Linda Gold.
Mississippi Humanities Council
Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography, University of Southern Mississippi Transcripts.
White House Tapes
John F. Kennedy Library; Lyndon Baines Johnson Library;
Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon White House Tapes at the Miller Center for Public Affairs, UVA.
