THIST 416 Life and Thought: Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Angela Davis: More primary sources
Civil Rights
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Behind the VeilOral history interviews chronicling African-American life during the age of legal segregation in the south.
- Freedom Summer Collection
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ProQuest history vault. Black freedom struggle in the 20th centuryCollections related to the civil rights movement including records of federal agencies (US Commission on Civil Rights), organizations (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) and individuals (Bayard Rustin).
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American Black JournalThis site includes episodes of the original programming (first title Colored People's Time) on Detroit Public Television in 1968.
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Documents the social, economic, political and cultural histories of persons of African American descent in the central United States, particularly the Kansas City, Missouri region.
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Black Panther Party Sound Recording ProjectPrimary source recordings of speeches and events of the Black Panther Party in California in the 1960's and 1970's.
- Digital Harlem
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Legal records, newspapers, and other archival sources that document everyday life in Harlem 1915-1930.
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Digital SchomburgDigital resources from the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center covering the history and culture of African peoples in the diaspora.
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Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive ProjectPhotograph's by Pittsburgh Courier photographer Charles "Teenie" Harris documenting everyday life for African Americans from the 1930s to the 1970s.
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FBI Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading RoomFull-text documents from the FBI files on people like Thurgood Marshall, Medger Evers, Martin Luther King, and more.
- Ten O'Clock News
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WGBH video clips from 1974 to 1991 focusing on news stories relating to Boston's African American community.
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The Church in the Southern Black CommunityBiographies, church documents, sermons, encyclopedias and more from the digital project Documenting the American South.