History 108R (Saeteurn)

A collection via History Vault focusing on the political side of the movement, the role of civil rights organizations in pushing for legislation, and the interaction between African Americans and the federal government in the 20th century. Includes the FBI files on Martin Luther King Jr.; Centers of the Southern Struggle, a collection of FBI files covering the civil rights struggle in Montgomery, Albany, St. Augustine, Selma, and Memphis; and records from the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations, covering the interaction between civil rights leaders and organizations and the federal government.

Collections via History Vault focused on the records of major civil rights organizations and the personal papers of leaders and observers of the 20th century Civil Rights movement. Includes the records for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs as well as the records of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Africa-related papers of Claude Barnett, and the Robert F. Williams Papers.

Black Thought and Culture provides approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present.

1945 - present. Contains declassified government documents including policy documents, presidential directives, memos, diplomatic dispatches, meeting notes, White House communications, email, etc. Covers critical world events from post WWII through the 21st century. Many materials have been gathered through use of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

1492 - 2007. A collection of original documents relating to Empire Studies from libraries and archives around the world. Developed to encourage undergraduate work with rare primary documents by using images of the texts rather than transcriptions.

1960 - 1974. This searchable database includes diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary.

A collection focused on the liberation struggles in Southern Africa, especially in Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Contains 76 sub-collections of primary source materials focusing on colonial rule, the dispersion of exiles, and international intervention through newspapers, UN documents, photographs, speeches, personal papers and more. Via JSTOR.

Full text of documents from various government agencies: the White House, the CIA, the FBI, the State Department and others, declassified by the U.S. government, and obtained from Presidential Libraries. Previously Declassified Documents Reference System.

Provides full-text access to eight historical newspapers including the Chicago Defender (1910-1975), Chicago Tribune (1849-1991), Los Angeles Times (1881-1991), New York Times (1851-2008), San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922), Wall Street Journal (1889-1994), Washington Post (1877-1995).

1917 - 2013. Access to 9 Communist digitized newspaper pages, including articles, photos, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, editorial cartoons and more. Available through 6/2022; may be purchased by the UC system based on usage.

1791 - 2003. Access to digitized London and Manchester newspaper pages, including articles, photos, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, editorial cartoons and more. Available through 6/2022; may be purchased by the UC system based on usage.

1785 - 2013. The Times covers all major international historical events from the French Revolution to the Falkland War. Search the full-text of the entire newspaper, including articles, editorials and advertising.