African American Studies: Civil Rights

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Papers.
A Guide is included for this collection.This massive collection consists of sometwenty-eight sections, many with supplemental files, organized by subject. Here is a list of all available NAACP files on microfilmin the Periodicals and Newspaper/Microform Room in the basement of Doe Library.

Provides digital access to materials documenting the roles and experiences of Black Women in the Women’s Suffrage Movement and, more broadly, women’s rights, voting rights, and civic activism between the 1850s and 1960.

More than 100 manuscript collections documenting the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964. In them you will find official records of organizations such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); the personal papers of movement leaders and activists such as Amzie Moore, Mary King and Howard Zinn, letters and diaries of northern college students who went South to volunteer for the summer; newsletters produced in Freedom Schools; racist propaganda, newspaper clippings, pamphlets and brochures, magazine articles, telephone call logs, candid snapshots, internal memos, press releases and much more.

Collections focus on documents relating to events that occurred during the civil rights struggle of the 1950s and 1960s in Birmingham and throughout the United States.

The three major civil rights organizations are the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. Papers of civil rights leaders included in this module are those of the civil rights and labor leader A. Philip Randolph; the long-time civil rights activist and organizer of the March on Washington, Bayard Rustin, and the papers of the pioneering educator Mary McLeod Bethune.

Includes records of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Africa-related papers of Claude Barnett, and the Robert F. Williams Papers

Contains documents and images which chronicle events surrounding this historically significant case up to the present

Publications, video, oral histories, and more documenting the civil rights movement

Archival resources documenting the modern civil rights era in Greensboro, North Carolina, from the 1940s to the early 1980s.

Filmed oral history interviews of people involved in the movement.

Includes a selection of digitized photographs, letters, diaries, and other documents. Oral history transcripts are also available, as well as finding aids for manuscript collections.

Photographs, unedited news film footage, text documents, and oral history interviews illustrating the history of civil rights in Milwaukee

Approximately 750 interview transcripts focused on the civil rights movement in Mississippi.

Ongoing digital oral and public history project that narrates the unique history of Starkville, Mississippi's civil rights struggle.

The site combines narrative with hundreds of videos and documents to tell the story of one of America's most influential black freedom movement organizations.