History: Civil Rights & Slavery in the U.S.

First-person accounts of slavery, with black-and-white photographs of former slaves, collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture, organized into thematic collections

correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, audiovisual recordings, and more providing insight into the intersection of civil rights and labor movements between 1943 and 1999