Library Guides: Inclusion, Diversity &amp; Equity (IDE) Resources: Primary Source Collections

SU's Digital Collections

Films On Demand
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
Primary documents in African American history following the Civil War
African Americans and Jim Crow: Repression and Protest, 1883-1922
Primary documents in African American history under enforced racial segregation
American Race Relations Global Perspectives, 1941-1996
Global reporting and analysis of 20th-century U.S. race relations
Civil Rights in America From Reconstruction to the Great Society
Official publications and primary source documents related to a century of civil rights issues in the United States

LGBTQ+ Rights (HeinOnline)
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)

Behind the Veil | Duke University This oral history project records and preserves the living memory of African American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s.
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States | ProQuest Primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history intended anyone interested in learning more about the foundation of ongoing racial injustice in the U.S. – and the fights against it. Free resource.
Chronicling America: Historic Newspapers Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1925 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
The Colored Conventions Project A scholarly and community research project dedicated to bringing nineteenth-century Black organizing to digital life. Includes general information about the conventions, digital exhibits, teaching modules, and news. Links to a database of digital records of the conventions.
Explorations in Black Leadership | UVa Interviews with Black leaders conducted chiefly by Julian Bond, former national chairman of the NAACP and professor of history at the University of Virginia.
Freedmen's Bureau Search Portal | Smithsonian primary sources on topics related to slavery and Reconstruction in the papers of the United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, commonly known as the Freedmen's Bureau
Independent Voices | JSTOR A collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
LGBTQIA+ Periodical and Ephemera Collection | Princeton University
The PALABRA Archive | Library of Congress Audio recordings of prominent writers from Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula, the Caribbean, and other regions with Luso-Hispanic heritage populations reading from their works.
Storer Stories An oral history podcast featuring former students of Storer College in Harpers Ferry (1867-1955), one of the nation’s first schools for African Americans.
The SNCC Digital Gateway Documents the history, actions, and organization of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the only national civil rights organization led by young people.
Virginia Untold Documents relating to pre-1865 African American history and genealogy found in the collections of the Library of Virginia.

Race and Ethnicity Keyword Thesaurus for Chronicling America
a guide to searching topics of race and ethnicity in historical publications