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HIST 491: Civil Rights Radicals (Spring 2025)

Tips

  • Use contemporary terms
  • Keep searches simple -- dont use more than 3 or 4 words total
  • use filters in the databases to narrow searches
  • pick databases based on types of material they contain
  • use secondary sources to point you toward primary sources

Examples

Individuals

  • Phillis Wheatley
  • W.E.B. DuBois
  • Malcolm X (Malcolm Little or el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz)

Topics

  • Racial education reform
  • Black panthers 
  • Racial groups within the Civil Rights Movement
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)