Other sources

Look through issues from the alternative/underground press movement on Black Americans:

• Black Dialogue
• Freedomways
• Black Americans for Democracy News
• The BAD Times

 

Check out resources selected for the Digital Public Library of America's units on:

• Fannie Lou Hamer and the CRM in Rural Mississippi
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Busing & Beyond: School Desegregation in Boston
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• The Watsons Go To Birmingham—1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

 

Look through archival video clips collected for NBC Learn:

• Finishing the Dream

 

Navigate to the 1960s, and the linked resources, in the databases Black Studies Center and Black Thought and Culture.

 

Or, visit SCUA on the 25th floor of the Du Bois Library to view periodicals on Black Liberation in our Social Change Periodical Collection, or any number of other collections tagged with the subject "civil rights." Some collections of particular interest include:

• Ted Allen Papers
• Horace Mann Bond Papers
• Gloria Xifaras Clark Papers
• W.E.B. Du Bois Papers
• Cheryl Evans Papers
• Francis Holmes Southern Student Project  Collection
• August Meier Collection
• NAACP Portsmouth, NH Records
• Monty Neill Collection
• Steve Saltonstall Collection