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Women and the Civil Rights Movement

Finding Archival Collections

ArchiveGrid
Index to archival collection descriptions and finding aids.Over 2,500 libraries, museums, and archives worldwide have contributed nearly a million record descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Rutgers-restricted Access

Primary Source Databases

Digital Libraries

Library of Congress: Digital Collections
The Library of Congress site offers access to more than 9 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections of primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The collections include manuscripts, photographs, posters, maps, books, pamphlets, and sheet music, as well as sound recordings and motion pictures and can either be browsed or searched.
Digital Public Library of America
Over 40 million "images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States."
OAC: Online Archive of California
Detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by more than 200 contributing institutions including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California and collections maintained by the 10 University of California (UC) campuses.