Research Guides: HIST 490: Women of the Civil Rights Movement: Civil Rights Collections

Archives and Oral Histories

Civil Rights History Project
Video interviews with Civil Rights activists conducted by the Library of Congress and National Museum of African American History and Culture. Topics include music, culture, labor movement, self-defense, experiences of activists, and discussion of various events during the period.
Civil Rights Digital Library
Digitized primary sources from the civil rights from archives, libraries, and museums. Search by event, person, place, or topic.

History Vault [ProQuest]
Researchers can access digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and many more primary source materials taken from the University Publications of America (UPA) Collection. Includes sub-collections on Civil Rights, Women's Studies, American Politics and Society, and more.
Ralph J. Bunche Oral Histories Collection on the Civil Rights Movement
This collection contains transcriptions of close to 700 interviews with those who made history in the struggles for voting rights, against discrimination in housing, for the desegregation of the schools, to expose racism in hiring, in defiance of police brutality, and to address poverty in the African American communities. Coverage: 1967-1973.