HIST 599: Law and Modern Civil Rights

Geographic focus: Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Brooklyn, and North Carolina. Personal diaries and scrapbooks, pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, oral histories, photographs, postcards, maps and ephemera.

Manuscripts, artwork, rare printed books, rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, historic maps, newspapers, photographs and travel journals. Browse to Thematic Areas for the Civil Rights Movement.

Documents, archives, films, and ephemera related to significant border areas and events from the 19th to 21st centuries.

150,000 pages of primary sources, supporting materials, and archives, along with 125 hours of video.

Includes every statute passed by every state and colony, all federal statutes, all reported state and federal cases on slavery, plus books and pamphlets.

Archival materials (as well as books and periodicals) documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day.

Articles, correspondence, and government records documenting 18th-20th centuries. Includes content from American Indians in the West, Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle, and Women's Studies.

The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960–1974 brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. Terms of Use