HIST 301: Civil Rights Movement -- Professor Crosby: Primary Sources

This database contains primary sources telling the story from the civil rights activists’ point of view. The entirety of the source was put together by people who experienced the civil rights movement first hand. The site lists all its contributors and a profile.

This resource provides access to the historical record of the US Commission on Civil Rights, a federal agency established in 1957 to examine and resolve issues related to race, ethnicity, religion and, more recently, sexual orientation. It includes reports of the commission as well as articles by members of the commission on how the community reacted to the Commission's early hearings and how members of the Commission viewed their role in the 1960s. The best way to search it is to click on "Subject" and look for an interesting topic.

From the libraries of the University of Mississippi, this massive digital collection of data centers around the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. It contains original photographs, letters, diaries, maps, yearbooks, newspapers, and written documentation/recordings of oral history/interviews from dates ranging well beyond the conventionally understood time frame of the movement. Easily navigated, one only has to click “browse”, or to enter a “Keyword Search”, on the homepage to access the database.

To use this digital collection, you need a New York Public Library card, which is free and available to any NY State resident for a three month period of time, and renewable after that. Apply here: https://www.nypl.org/library-card/new

This database contains primary sources telling the story from the civil rights activists’ point of view. The entirety of the source was put together by people who experienced the civil rights movement first hand. The site lists all its contributors and a profile.

A gathering place of primary-source information. To help educators and individuals find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies and government-created web sites.

The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and, in some cases, other units of the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress offers broad public access to these materials as a contribution to education and scholarship.

The collections of the Prints & Photographs Division include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and a

Free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.

Use Flickr's advanced search to find photos and images which are available copyright free or through a Creative Commons license that allows for reuse.

Flickr provides access to works by professional and amateur photographers as well as several collections from major world museums as well as to those of lesser quality.

Bing doesn't offer an advanced search feature. Rather, the user begins with a keyword search and then is guided through several options to narrow to the image they want based on topic, size, layout, or color among others.

Full text of W.E.B. DuBois' NAACP newspaper via Googlebooks.