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Primary Sources: Civil Rights in America

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Online Sources: Civil Rights in America

American Radicalism Collection
Amistad Digital Resource
Baltimore '68: Riots and Rebirth
BBC Witness Black History Collection
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Archives
BPL Digital Collections (Birmingham Public Library)
Civil Rights - PBS Learning Media
The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom
Civil Rights and Campus Protest Collection (SJSU)
Civil Rights and Labor History Consortium
Civil Rights Archive - University of Mississippi
Civil Rights Data Collection
Civil Rights Digital Library
Civil Rights Greensboro
Civil Rights History Project - Collections by Repository State
Civil Rights History Project - National Survey of Collections
Civil Rights in Maryland
Civil Rights Movement Veterans
Civil Rights Oral History Collection (WSU)
Constitution of the United States - Official
Constitution of the United States - Official
Dig DC
Dig Memphis
DISD Desegregation Litigation Archives
Documented Rights Exhibit on Flicker
Documenting the American South
Eyes on the Prize Interviews (Washington University Digital Gateway)
Eyes on the Prize Interviews (American Archive of Public Broadcasting)
FBI Vault: Civil RIghts
The Freedom Archives
Freedom Riders Oral Histories
Freedom Summer | Wisconsin Historical Society
Gilder Lehrman Center Online Documents
Guide to the KZSU Project South Interviews
Social History for Every Classroom
Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
An Imperfect Revolution - American Radio Works
I Raised My Hand to Volunteer
The Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists
Jim Crow Stories (PBS)
Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
Land of (Unequal) Opportunity
Library of Congress - Digital Collections - Civil Rights History Project
Library of Congress: Primary Source Set: African Americans
The March On Milwaukee Civil Rights History Project
Mississippi Civil Rights Project
Mississippi Digital Archives
Mississippi Freedom Project (University of Florida)
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records
NARA: Documented Rights
Newseum - ED Tools
Oral History Interview with Orval Faubus, June 14, 1974
Print Culture of the Civil Rights Movement, 1950-1980
Queens College Civil Rights Archives
Race, riots and reputation: Has N.J.'s largest city recovered?
Race and Place
Records of Rights
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An online exhibit of documents and other items available from U.S. National Archives. It includes rights of various types including African-Americans, Native Americans, Women, privacy, sexuality, workplace, and rights from the first amendment.
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (a.k.a. Kerner Report)
Rhodes College Digital Archives - Memphis and the Mid-South
Rights in America
Rochester Black Freedom Struggle: Online Project
Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project
Social Change Interviews
The Southern Courier 1965-1968
Southern Oral History Program Interview Database
Speaking Out: Western Michigan Civil Rights Oral Histories
The Supreme Court - Expanding Civil Rights
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primary sources from PBS related to the Supreme Court and civil rights
Teaching American History: Civil Rights Documents
Teaching American History Documents
Television News of the Civil Rights Era, 1950-1970 (UVA)
Tuskegee University Archives: Audio Collection
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
University of Southern California Digital Library
University of Southern Mississippi Digital Collections
University of Southern Mississippi Oral History
Voices of Civil Rights (A Library of Congress Exhibition)
Voices of Democracy: The U.S. Oratory Project
Voices of Freedom
Voices of the Civil Rights Movement

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