HSTRY 498: Civil Rights & Labor Movements in the Pacific Northwest: Additional Primary Sources

These digitized primary source collections are likely to include material relevant to many of the suggested research project topics. To see other collections check the primary sources pages on the the following History research guides: African American, American, Asian American, Labor, Latinx, LGBTQ, Native American, Pacific Northwest & Womens.

Digitized Primary Source Collections

American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990 This link opens in a new window
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ACLU collection covers major civil liberties issues of the 20th century and includes correspondence, subject & case files, news clippings & more
American Indians and the American West This link opens in a new window
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Collections include federal (e.g., Bureau of Indian Affairs) and organizational records (e.g., Major Council Meetings of American Indian Tribes). Part of History Vault.
Archives of Sexuality & Gender: Parts I & II This link opens in a new window
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Newspapers, reports & manuscript material illustrating LGBTQ history and activism since the 1940s
Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century This link opens in a new window
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Collections include federal records (e.g., White House files from the Johnson administration & U.S. Commission on Civil Rights), organizational records (e.g., League of Revolutionary Black Workers & Congress of Racial Equality), and personal papers (e.g., Bayard Rustin & Mary McLeod Bethune). Part of History Vault.

Densho Digital Repository
Collection documents the Japanese American experience primarily in the PNW. Includes oral histories, photographs, newspapers & other material. Focus is on WWII but covers prewar and postwar experience.

Indigenous Peoples of North America, Part I This link opens in a new window
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Collections include federal and missionary records, Indigenous newspapers, correspondence & more.

Labor Archives of Washington Digital Collections
Digitized material covers the Industrial Workers of the World, the Seattle General Strike, cannery workers and other labor activists and issues in the Pacific Northwest

NAACP Papers This link opens in a new window
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Papers of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People dating from approximately 1910 to the early 1970s. Part of History Vault.

Alaska Digital Archives
Portal to digital collections from Alaska
California and West Coast Labor and Industrial Relations
"Documents, pamphlets, company publications, union reports" & more from mid 20th century
Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archives
Collection relating to the history of ethnic groups living in the Columbia River Basin.
Digital Library of Idaho
Portal to digital collections across Idaho
Montana Memory Project
Portal to digital collections illustrating the history & culture of Montana.
Mountain West Digital Library
Portal to digitzed collections from colleges & universities in Utah, Nevada, Oregon, and other parts of the U.S. West.
Northwest Digital Heritage
Portal to digitized collections from institutions in Oregon & Washington including the UW
Oregon Digital
Portal to digitized collections from Oregon State University & the University of Oregon.
Plateau Peoples' Web Portal
A portal to materials from: "Spokan Tribe of Indians, the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Coeur d'Alene Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, the Nimíipuu (Nez Perce) Tribe.
UW Digital Collections
Digitized material includes historic photographs, documents & oral histories illustrating the history of the Pacific