Civil Rights Digital Library
Access: Publicly available resource
Description: Includes voices and images from the civil-rights movement featuring hours of historical news footage showing such events as the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock and Martin Luther King Jr accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. The site also holds images of historical documents, diaries, and letters. Created by the University of Georgia. Also try:
- Columbia University’s Amistad Digital Resource
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the N. Y. Public Library
- Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Television News of the Civil Rights Era, 1950-1970 , University of Virginia
Coverage: Various Dates
Subject(s):
Digital Archives & Collections
Gender, Minority Studies & Anthropology
History, Genealogy & Archives
Publicly Available Resources
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African American Biographical Database
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Black Studies Database: Kaiser Index to Black Resources
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LexisNexis Access to Primary Sources in US History
Oxford African American Studies Center
Sabin Americana 1500-1926
Related Links
Documenting the American South
Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights ** http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/usccr/index.asp **
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