Primary Sources
- Black freedom struggle in the 20th century. Organizational records and personal papers This link opens in a new windowConsists of personal papers of African Americans and records of civil rights organizations. Among the collections are: Papers of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM); Mary McLeod Bethune Papers; Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC); Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Bayard Rustin Papers; Claude A. Barnett Papers.
- Black thought and culture : African Americans from Colonial times to the present. This link opens in a new windowBlack Thought and Culture includes non-fiction writings by important African Americans.
- CrisisThe Crisis, f the official publication of the NAACP, is a journal of civil rights, history, politics, and culture. Please note this is not a complete collection.
- Independent VoicesThis collection chronicles the transformative decades of the 60s, 70s and 80s through the lens of independent alternative presses. Among the broad interest groups covered are American youth. Feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals and the New Left, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Latinos, and members of the LGBT communities.
- NAACP Papers This link opens in a new windowCovering years 1909 through 1972, this collection contains internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People throughout the country.
- Reader's guide retrospective This link opens in a new windowIndexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States during the Twentieth Century.
- The Sixties This link opens in a new windowLetters, diaries, memoirs, and oral histories; accounts from official, radical, and alternative organizations; posters, broadsides, pamphlets, advertisements, and rare materials; and Universal newsreel footage of the times.
- Women and social movements in the United States. Basic edition This link opens in a new windowBrings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.
Newspapers
- African American newspapers, 1827-1998Search the full text of eight African American newspapers with coverage from 1827 to 1902. Frederick Douglass' Paper is among the included titles.
- African American newspapers: the 19th CenturyProvides the full-text of over 270 African American newspapers with coverage from 1827- 1902.
- ProQuest Historical NewspapersProvides a full-text search of newspapers in the United States, including the African American Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), The Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988), Chicago Defender (1910-1975), Cleveland Call and Post (1934-1962) Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), Norfolk Journal and Guide (1921-2003) and the Pittsburg Courier (1911-2002)