Civil rights & liberation movements sources

Updated January 27, 2020: still under construction, more to come

Historic Civil Rights/Freedom Movement

General sources

• American Folklife Center Civil Rights History Project
• Civil Rights Movement Veterans | Movement History
• Library of Congress Civil Rights history collection
• National Archives African American History
• Stanford University King Encyclopedia
• University of Virginia, Charlottesville The Sixties Project | Documents
• University of Mississippi [White] Citizens’ Council archive | print publications
• Virginia Commonwealth University Social Welfare History Project | Civil Rights Era
• Women and social movements in the United States 1600-2000

Media coverage

• Compiled by The Atlantic, historic photographs
• Greensboro Public Library, archive of local media coverage
• Jules Ffeiffer, various cartoons on civil rights, 1960-66
• PBS, Freedom Riders
• Time archive, How Time covered the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery

Organizations

• Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
  • History of CORE
  • King Encyclopedia CORE
  • SNCC Digital Gateway CORE
  • VCU CORE
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) | Oldest and Boldest
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
  • King Encylopedia SCLC
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commitee (SNCC)
  • Biblio SNCC
  • Julian Bond, SNCC: What we did, Monthly Review
  • Encyclopedia Britannica SNCC
  • Digital Gateway
  • Legacy Project
  • National Archives SNCC
  • University of Washington, Mapping American Social Movements, SNCC

Specific topics

• Violence & nonviolence
  • Curtis J Austin, On violence and nonviolence: the Civil Rights Movt in Mississippi
  • Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, The beloved community & philosophy of nonviolence
  • International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, The US Civil Rights Movt 1942-68
  • Lynchings in America
• Women & civil rights
  • How and Why Did Women in SNCC Author a Pathbreaking Feminist Manifesto, 1964-1965?
  • SNCC Position Paper: Women in the Movement
  • J White, The women of SNCC, The Root
  • Women in the Civil Rights Movement, Library of Congress

Women’s Liberation

• Combahee River Collective
  • The Statement
• Jane: An Abortion Service

What came after. . .

Activism, archives, research

• ACT UP Oral History Project | Oral History Project videotapes | guide to vids
• ADAPT
• Black Futures Lab
  • Black Census Report
• Black Lives Matter
• Kimberlé Crenshaw, Mapping the Margins
• #SayHerName