HIST 280- History in Black and White (Cooley 2025)

The struggle for racial equality in the 1950s and 1960s is among the most far-reaching social movements in the nation's history, and it represents a crucial step in the evolution of American democracy. The Civil Rights Digital Library promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement by helping users discover primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale.

List of Civil Rights related websites.

A partnership of the United States Government Printing Office, The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Thurgood Marshall Law Library.

Primarily oral histories

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has obtained documents and links that may be helpful in understanding civil rights enforcement by major agencies in the federal government.

Television News of the Civil Rights Era, 1950-1970, aims to collect, digitize, and present in streaming video format over the World Wide Web television news footage from the period and to make these valuable materials available to scholars, teachers, and students. The current archive contains films from the nightly news from two local television stations in Virginia--WDBJ (CBS) Roanoke and WSLS (NBC) Roanoke.

"to inspire you regarding your rights as a human being, gay and straight, so that you may help ensure your family, friends, neighbors and fellow human beings enjoy the fullest opportunity to live in freedom on planet Earth."

CBC-TV interview (Canadian television)

This website is created by Veterans of the Southern Freedom Movement (1951-1968). It is where we tell it like it was, the way we lived it, the way we saw it, the way we still see it. With a few minor exceptions, everything on this site was written, created, or spoken by Movement activists who were direct participants in the events they chronicle.

Background information and related multi-media primary sources.

Guide to the collection at UMass Amherst including digitized resources from the collection.

Includes oral history interviews, individual papers, government records and more.

American memory provides free and open access to an abundance of digital resources, including still images.

Digitized newspapers from around the United States published between 1836-1922.

Aimed at teachers, this site is a combination of primary and secondary sources around a variety of US history eras.

Explore digital collections from around the United States. Includes material from the Minnesota Digital Library.

Most of the Presidential Libraries have some digitized content available.

Minnesota Reflections now brings you nearly 53,000 images and documents shared by more than 108 cultural heritage organizations across the state. This site offers a variety of resources on Minnesota's history for researchers, educators, students and the public.

The electronic reading room of the FBI, these files were made available as a result of FOIA requests.

Comprises "digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints."

ndependent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.