Research Guides at CSU Pueblo Library: Civil Rights Movement: Primary sources

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Oral histories of the American South: Civil rights movement
Part of the Documenting the American South collection, this set of oral histories includes interviews with students and teachers at West Charlotte High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, where the successes of integration are encountering the realities of a segregated past; the difficult transition to integrated schooling for students at the all-black Lincoln High School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and the roles of black workers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Civil Rights Films from USC's Moving Image Research Collections
Notable activists were filmed at demonstrations and protests in the early 1960s, before their names were widely known. This curated collection includes local news footage, oral histories, and responses from politicians and authority figures.

Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
Published and unpublished works by 400+ authors. Search by historical event or life experience. Includes digital reproduction and full-text transcription of the Black Panther newspaper, and oral histories from authors, artists, and activists.

American Race Relations: Global Perspectives This link opens in a new window
Reports, publications, and news broadcasts covering America's fight for racial justice, with rare insight into race relations in Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. These documents are derived from the CIA archives and are searchable by name, organization, state and urban locales, and event. Covers the period 1941-1996.

America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Early American newspapers, published between 1690 and 1876.
Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 2 This link opens in a new window
Thematic content focusing on the evolution of Hispanic civil rights, religious thought, and the growing presence of women writers from the late 19th and 20th centuries. Rare and relevant books and newspapers—including rare anarchist newspapers—are presented in their original form.
Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
Published and unpublished works by 400+ authors. Search by historical event or life experience. Includes digital reproduction and full-text transcription of the Black Panther newspaper, and oral histories from authors, artists, and activists.

The Afro-American (1902-1992)
Digitized copies of The Afro-American, founded by John H. Murphy Sr. to combat racial discrimination and promote unity and children's education.
Historical African American Newspapers Available Online
A list of historical African American Newspapers available online as part of digitization projects at libraries, historical societies, and archives.

The Crisis
The Crisis, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois as the official publication of the NAACP, is a journal of civil rights, history, politics, and culture and seeks to educate and challenge its readers about issues that continue to plague African Americans and other communities of color. For nearly 100 years, The Crisis has been the magazine of opinion and thought leaders, decision makers, peacemakers and justice seekers. It has chronicled, informed, educated, entertained and, in many instances, set the economic, political and social agenda for our nation and its multi-ethnic citizens.

Discovering American Women's History Online This link opens in a new window
Access to digital collections of primary sources that document the history of women in the U.S. 700+ collections on topics ranging from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to interviews with women engineers in the 1970s.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new window
Includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters.
Gilded Age, 1877–1893 This link opens in a new window
Songs, letters, photographs, cartoons, government documents, and ephemera from the late nineteenth century, with video interviews with scholars and critical essays. Covers themes of race, labor, immigration, commerce, western expansion, and women's suffrage from the end of the Civil War to Theodore Roosevelt's presidency (1865-1901).