ARTICLES - VMRL Summer Institute - African American Memory: Preserving the History of the Civil Rights Era - Research Guides at Washington University in St. Louis

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America: History & Life (1964-) This link opens in a new window
A complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries. Learn more about this database
ERIC (1966-) (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Over 800,000 references to thousands of educational topics. Includes journal articles, books, theses, curricula, conference papers, and standards and guidelines. Updated monthly. Links to fulltext ED documents have been added; more than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004) are freely available.
Ethnic Newswatch This link opens in a new window
Includes current full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. The database now also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.
Historical Abstracts (1955-) This link opens in a new window
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada), from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Database and full texts of journal articles.
Project MUSE Premium collection This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive collection of peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journals from leading university presses, not-for-profit publishers and prestigious scholarly societies.
Journals can be searched individually, in groups, or all together.

African American Themed Resources

African American Newspapers (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Includes Atlanta Daily World (1931-2010), Baltimore Afro-American (1893-2010), Chicago Defender (1909-2010), Cleveland Call & Post (1934-2010), Kansas City Call (1919-2010), Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2010), Louisville Defender (1951-2010), New York Amsterdam News (1922-2010), Norfolk Journal & Guide (1916-2010), Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2010), and Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2010).
Black Drama This link opens in a new window
Contains many plays and their corresponding ephemera, both published and previously unpublished. Gift of Mary Wickes in honor of her parents Isabella & Frank Wickenhauser.
Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th century (History Vault) This link opens in a new window
Primary source material from federal agencies, letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, and diaries; composed of two modules. Learn more about this database
Black Liberation Army (Archives Unbound) This link opens in a new window
Interviews, articles, speeches, and FBI surveillance and informant reports, ranging from 1970-1983 on Black Liberation Army (BLA).
Black Studies Center This link opens in a new window
Includes scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles on Black Studies. Combines resources as: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index of Black Periodicals (IIBP), The Chicago Defender, and Black Literature Index.
Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
Contains numerous multimedia sources on the published works of prominent African Americans.

Eyes on the Prize Interviews
These interviews are part of the Henry Hampton Collection housed at the Film and Media Archive at Washington University Libraries. Each transcript represented the entire interview conducted by Blackside including sections which appeared in the final program and the outtakes.

Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Communist Party: Papers of James and Esther Cooper Jackson (Archives Unbound) This link opens in a new window
Clippings, correspondence, lectures, research notebooks, speeches, and writings (published and unpublished), subject files, internal documents and printed ephemera. Contains over 45,000 images from 1932-2000.

General American History Themed Resources

American Memory
Provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

Chicago Tribune, Historical (1849-2013) This link opens in a new window
Full page and article images with searchable full text in publications from 1849 - 2013.
Historical Statistics of the United States This link opens in a new window
A standard source for quantitative facts of American history. Contains over 37,000 data series from over 1,000 sources.
Los Angeles Times (1881-2015) This link opens in a new window
Full-page images and article images from the Los Angeles Daily Times and the Los Angeles Times. Includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue in PDF format. Learn more about this database
New York Times, Historical (1851-3 year ago) This link opens in a new window
Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Learn more about this database
Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975 (Parts I and II) This link opens in a new window
Manuscripts and typescripts, newspapers, magazines, press kits, artist’s files, photographs, advertisements, memorabilia, and more from prominent library collections in the U.S. and UK. Key features include original video footage on key events and topics, and a multi-faceted chronology of the period with embedded articles and images.
Wall Street Journal, Historical (1889-2003) This link opens in a new window
Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. (Visit our Newspaper Research Guide for instructions on accessing current issues)
Washington Post (1877-2007) This link opens in a new window
Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.

Using primary resources to explore mass demonstrations within the Civil Rights Movement.