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.
Freely Available Collections
Behind the Veil | Duke UniversityThis 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 | ProQuestPrimary 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 NewspapersSearch 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 ProjectA 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 | UVaInterviews 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 | Smithsonianprimary 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 | JSTORA 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.
The PALABRA Archive | Library of CongressAudio 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 StoriesAn 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 GatewayDocuments the history, actions, and organization of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the only national civil rights organization led by young people.
Virginia UntoldDocuments relating to pre-1865 African American history and genealogy found in the collections of the Library of Virginia.
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