Research Guides: Inclusion, Diversity & Equity (IDE) Resources: Primary Source Collections

SU's Digital Collections

Films On Demand This link opens in a new window
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Includes archival footage and documentaries about the Civil Rights Movement and other key social movements in the U.S.
African Americans and Reconstruction: Hope and Struggle, 1865-1883 This link opens in a new window
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Crucial documents covering the lives of African Americans in the years following the Civil War.
African Americans and Jim Crow: Repression and Protest, 1883-1922 This link opens in a new window
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Crucial documents covering the lives of African Americans during the rise of segregation and Jim Crow.
American Race Relations Global Perspectives, 1941-1996 This link opens in a new window
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Reports, publications, and news broadcasts covering America's fight for racial justice, with firsthand analysis of race relations in Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. This database contains thousands of news articles, radio transcripts, and television transcripts from around the world.
Civil Rights in America From Reconstruction to the Great Society This link opens in a new window
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Civil Rights in America: From Reconstruction to the Great Society covers the arc of American civil rights including subjects related to African Americans and issues associated with other ethnic groups, immigrants, laborers, children, and illegal aliens. The collection includes publications and reports from the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, the executive branch, congressional committees, special investigations, and non-governmental organizations.

LGBTQ+ Rights (HeinOnline)
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Charts the gay rights movement in America, showing the civil rights codified into law in the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as the inequalities that still exist today.

[Four African American women seated on steps of building at Atlanta University, Georgia] (LOC)

Freely Available Collections

Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Students using microscopes (LOC)

Inclusive Language Resource

Writing about Slavery? This May Help
Senior slavery scholars of color community-sourced this short guide to share with and be used by editors, presses, museums, journalists and curricular projects as well as by teachers, writers, curators, archivists, librarians and public historians.