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LexisNexis Access to Primary Sources in US History

Access: On-Site Access Only

Description: A database of essential sources in African American Studies. The database contains:

Full-text of all Federal legislation pertaining to race through 1995
Full-text of all U.S. Supreme Court cases pertaining to race through 1995
Expanding collection of colonial legislation and case law regarding race and slavery
Growing database of U.S. government documents on race drawn from the compilations of LexisNexis CIS branded collections.

Sources include over 1,100 reference articles on key subjects, individuals, and organizations from the colonial era through the late 20th Century. The database contains hundreds of scholarly articles in full-text, as well as government and private manuscripts exploring civil rights, NAACP's legal campaign against segregation and racism, and late 19th and early 20th Century peonage cases in the South. Hundreds of images of African Americans from the 18th through 20th Centuries, seminal autobiographies of African Americans, and public speeches by prominent African Americans are also included.

Coverage: Various Dates

Subject(s)
Gender, Minority Studies & Anthropology
History, Genealogy & Archives
Law
Politics & Government
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Related Databases On-Site Access Only
African American Biographical Database
America : History and Life
Annals of American History
Black Studies Center
Black Studies Database: Kaiser Index to Black Resources
Black Thought and Culture
Making of the Modern World 1450 - 1850
Oxford African American Studies Center
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Sabin Americana 1500-1926

Related Links
Documenting the American South
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Other Related Links:
African American Family Histories and Related Works in the Library of Congress
African-American Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1880 - 1920
Slaves and the Courts: 1740 - 1860 (American Memory)
The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture.
The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925

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