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Civil Rights Movement
During the 1950s and ‘60s, African-Americans campaigned for an end to racial discrimination through a series of non-violent protests and marches. The Civil Rights Movement culminated with the passage of federal laws banning discrimination in voting, employment, housing and other sectors of American society.
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Primary Sources for the Civil Rights Movement
Primary source material allows researchers to gain deeper understanding of the Civil Rights Movement.
Top Sites for Primary Sources for the Civil Rights Movement
The University of Georgia’s Civil Rights Digital Library has brought together primary source collections from universities, government department and other educational organizations. The sources can be browsed by event, person, place or topic.
The National Archives has organized its holdings by subjects such as Civil Rights and the NAACP, the Civil Rights and Voting Acts, and School Desegregation. It also has holdings dedicated to Civil Rights figures such as Martin Luther King, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks and Jackie Robinson.
The University of Virginia has streaming video of news reports on Civil Rights topics between 1955 and 1969. It also has a small collection of primary sources and interviews relating to the movement in Virginia.
The University of Maryland’s Thurgood Marshall Law Library is in the process of completing a digital record of the publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, created in 1957.
Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement
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