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HIST 301 Civil Rights Movement -- Professor Crosby: Primary Sources

Digital Document Collections

SNCC Digital Gateway
Civil Rights Movement Veterans
Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Archives
Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse, at Brown University
Civil Rights in the Mississippi Digital Archive
Freedom School Curriculum
Mapping Segregation
Eyes on the Prize -- Primary Sources
Documenting the American South
SNCC Legacy Project
NAACP Papers
Martin Luther King Papers Project
Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination Investigation, from the National Archives
Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination Investigation, from Shelby County, TN
Public School Integration
Civil Rights Digital Library (University of Georgia)
Alabama State Archives, Civil Rights Documents
African American Odyssey: Civil Rights Era -- Documents fromthe Library of Congress
North Carolina Digital Collections - Civil Rights
Freedom Summer Digital Collections -- Wisconsin Historical Society
Print Culture of the Civil Rights Movement (Tulane University)
WYSO Radio Archives (interviews from the 1960s, 70s, & 80s)
Archives of African American Music and Culture

Civil Rights Music, Posters, Radio, etc.

Lyrics of the Freedom Songs
A Freedom Singer Shares The Music Of The Movement
Civil Rights Buttons

March on Washington Collection (WGBH radio - recordings with transcripts)
Civil Rights Posters of the 1960s
Media and the Movement
What Must Be Done (1968 radio series)

Digital Personal Narratives

Civil Rights Movement Veterans
Voices of Civil Rights, from the Library of Congress
Mississippi Becomes a Democracy -- Interviews
Oh, Freedom Over Me, American Radioworks
Awesome Stories
Oral History Center -- UC Berkeley
Pacifica Radio Archives
Civil Rights History Project Oral Histories -- Library of Congress
Civil Rights Greenboro - Interviews
Voices of Freedom (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Southern Oral History Program, UNC
Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage, University of Southern Mississippi
Library of Congress Civil Rights History Project
Southern Oral History Program

Image Collections & Search Tools

Birmingham 1963: Photography
The Long Civil Rights Movement: Photographs from the Ronnie Moore Papers, 1964 -1972 (Tulane University)
Robert Moses Archives
Civil Rights Greenboro
Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
NYPL Digital Gallery

ARTstor
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Google Images
Flickr
Bing Images
picsearch
Yahoo Image Search (Advanced)
Tin Eye -- Reverse Image Search

20th Century Newspaper & Magazine Articles (Primary Sources)

Google Newspaper Archive
Segregation Now: Investigating America's Racial Divide (ProPublica)
Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African-American Newspapers
Crisis
Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
Afro American Newspapers
The Student Voice -- SNCC newspaper
Little Rock, 1957, Pages From History, from the Arkansas Democrat and the Arkansas Gazette
James L. Hick's 1955 articles on the Lynching of Emmett Till

Readers' Guide Retrospective

Alternative Press Indes Archive
Time Magazines Online
Life Magazines Online (via GoogleBooks)
Google Book & Magazine Search
New York Times Archive