Fall 2006
Dr. Emilye Crosby
Library Research Skills for HIST 221 Civil Rights Movement
The web can be a rich source for information about the Civil Rights Movement. Some sites even have primary sources. For instance, many organizations, libraries, and archives are scanning documents and placing them on web pages, others are reprinting pivotal articles and essays, and still others have provided oral history transcripts, interviews, or personal narratives. Even when an organization hasn't put any primary sources on their web page, they often have placed the finding aid to their collections on the web. This can be useful in identifying individuals involved in the movement, and may at least verify the existence of a document even if you can't get a copy of it. And, of course, you can always travel to where the archives are kept and use the collection in person, but this is impossible for most undergraduates!

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WEB SITES:

Archival Collections at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
http://bcri.bham.al.us/completecollectionguide.htm

Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse from Brown University
http://clearinghouse.wustl.edu/about.php

Civil Rights Movement Veterans: Interviews and Narratives Also look at "Roll Call."
http://www.crmvet.org/

Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography at the University of Southern Mississippi
http://www.usm.edu/crdp/html/bibliography.shtml

Freedom School Curriculum from the Education and Democracy Organization
www.educationanddemocracy.org

Little Rock: Forty Years Later from The New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/littlerock/photo-gallery.html

Little Rock 1957: Pages from History from the Arkansas Democrat and the Arkansas Gazette.
http://www.ardemgaz.com/prev/central/

Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project at Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/

Martin Luther King Jr. Assasination Investigation
http://www.register.shelby.tn.us/mlk/

Nashville's Civil Rights Movement Photos from the archives of the newspaper The Tennessean.
http://www.tennessean.com/civilrights/index.shtml

Public School Integration from Brown University.
http://www.s4.brown.edu/schoolsegregation/

The Southern Oral History Program's Civil Rights Interviews and Freedom Songs at the University of North Carolina
http://www.sohp.org

They Stand Accused: James L. Hick's investigations in Sumner Mississippi, September 1955 from The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative
http://www.archipelago.org/vol6-1/hicks.htm

Unseen. Unforgotten: Special Report from the Birmingham News Recently discovered photos of the Civil Rights Movement.
http://www.al.com/unseen//

Voices of Civil Rights from the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Library of Congress
http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/

 

GENERAL RESEARCH WEB SITES:

American Black Journal Television Program on the air since 1969.
http://www.matrix.msu.edu/~abj/

American Memory at the Library of Congress.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html

Archival Research Catalog of the National Archives and Records Administration. http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/index.html

Awesome Stories Many personal narratives, documents, photos. (Go to the box that says Academic members; username is sunygeneseo and password is sunygeneseo.)
http://www.awesomestories.com/

Bancroft Library's Regional Oral History Online
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/

Pacifica Radio Archives
http://www.pacificaarchives.org

 

Web Pages found in class on November 2

Alabama State Archives - Primary Sources on the CRM

PBS - Eyes on the Prize - Primary Sources

Eisenhower Archives Digital Documents

Mississippi Becomes a Democracy- Interviews

Civil Rights in U.S. and Virginia History - Documents

We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement

Robert Moses Archive - Photos, etc.

American Radioworks - Interviews

Seattle Black Panther Party History

National Park Service - Speeches

Peace Magazine

 

 

 

Sue Ann Brainard, Associate Librarian, Phone: (585) 245-5062 brainard@geneseo.edu
Milne Library, SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, NY 14454, (585) 245-5594