Skip to Main Content

Civil Rights Revolution and the Law

Civil Rights

Civil Rights Digital Library
Portal to digital collections documenting the struggle for racial equality. Emphasis on materials from the 1950s and 1960s, primarily in the South.
Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights - Publications by Date
The Long Civil Rights Movement: Works, Comments, and Links.
“Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement” Project at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Images

The Civil Rights Era in the U.S. News & World Report Photographs Collection. Selected Images from the Collections of the Library of Congress.

Civil Rights Collection. Some 27,000 mostly black and white images, the work of several photographers done largely in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Georgia in the early to mid sixties. Includes a collection of photographs depicting Negative Responses to Civil Rights

Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection. Over 6000 photographs taken for the Montgomery Alabama weekly Southern Courier between May 1965 and mid-1968, many documenting the civil rights movement.

Audio and Video

Lest We Forget
New York, Folkways Records, 1980.
Clips of songs, chants, prayers; speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Albernathy; and songs recorded during "The Sing for Freedom Workshop." Recordings from 1963-64. Rutgers-restricted Access
Voices of Civil Rights.
The History Channel, 2005. Rutgers-restricted Access
Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement
7 DVDs. PBS Video, 2006.
Vols. 1-3 tell the story of America's civil rights years from 1954 to 1965; vols. 4-7 examine the new America from 1966 to 1985, from community power to the human alienation of urban poverty. Available?
RUTGERS.EDU | SEARCH RUTGERS.EDU

© , Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Rutgers is an equal access/equal opportunity institution. Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to direct suggestions, comments, or complaints concerning any accessibility issues with Rutgers websites to accessibility@rutgers.edu or complete the Report Accessibility Barrier / Provide Feedback form.