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Whitaker Library

African American Resources

A selective guide to resources about African American History.

A selected list of primary sources about the civil rights movement

Civil Rights Act of 1964
A copy of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that is posted online by BlackPast.org
United States Code: Title 42,CHAPTER 21—CIVIL RIGHTS
A copy of civil rights legislation.
The Crisis (1911- 2011)
The official publication of the NAACP
Say it Plain, Say it Loud - American RadioWorks
This website has audio recordings of famous civil rights advocates.
Black Panthers: Digital Collections
A collection of primary documents about the Black Panther Party by the Michigan State University Libraries
FBI Civil Rights Files
Documents from the FBI about the civil rights.
Civil Rights Digital Library
A catalog of digital collections that contains primary documents on the civil rights movement.

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King, Jr. edited by Clayborne Carson.
Call Number: 323.092 K53a
ISBN: 0446524123
Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore by Michael S. Durham
Call Number: 323.1196 D961p
ISBN: 0817354816
Jim Crow America: A Documentary History by edited by Catherine M. Lewis and J. Richard Lewis
Call Number: **ebook**
ISBN: 1557288950
Publication Date: 2009

A selected list of secondary sources about the civil rights movement

Lunch at the 5 & 10 by Miles Wolff
Call Number: 975.662 W854L
ISBN: 0929587316
Publication Date: 1990
Du Bois and His Rivals by Raymond Wolters
Call Number: **ebook**
ISBN: 082621519X
Publication Date: 2002
Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961 by Mark V. Tushnet
Call Number: **ebook**
ISBN: 0195084128
Publication Date: 1994
Black Movements in America by Cedric J. Robinson
Call Number: 973.0496073 R637b
ISBN: 0415912229
And Justice for All: the United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America by Mary Frances Berry
Call Number: 323.0973 B534a
ISBN: 0307263207
Publication Date: 2009
Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and its Troubled Legacy by James T. Patterson
Call Number: **ebook**
ISBN: 0195127161
Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics, 1965-1980 by Devin Fergus
Call Number: 323.119 F352L
ISBN: 9780820333243
Publication Date: 2009