Brazil's Popular Groups
Access: Publicly available resource
Description: Searchable index to Library of Congress microfilm holdings documenting popular movements which grew during the period of Brazilian military rule (1964 - 1984) and after the inauguration of Brazil's New Republic in 1985. The twenty-year retrospective collection is followed by supplements for 1987-1989, 1990-1992 and annually thereafter.
The documentation includes newsletters, house organs, reports, posters, collections of clippings, brochures, resolutions of congresses, educational manuals, independent news services, catalogs of publications and handouts. Geographically, all states of Brazil are represented in the collection. The collection is arranged by subject, with fourteen broad topical groups:
- Agrarian Reform and Land Issues
- Children and Youth
- Education and Communication
- Environment and Ecology
- Ethnic Groups: Blacks
- Ethnic Groups: Indians
- Ethnic Groups: Others
- Homosexual and Bisexual
- Human and Civil Rights
- Labor and Laboring Classes
- Political Parties and Issues
- Religious Organizations, Ecumenical Groups and Movements
- Urban Activism
- Women and Feminists
Coverage: 1966 to present
Subject(s):
Americas (Area Studies)
Publicly Available Resources
Related Databases
Related Links
Handbook of Latin American Studies
** **
Other Related Links:
Fundação Biblioteca Nacional (Brazilian National Library)
