America in the 1960s and 1970s

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 Iniative.

Project at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill designed to "better understand how the South has been shaped by the black and women’s liberation movements, the Vietnam War, natural disasters, and conservative politics."

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

Fourteen part series; the most critically acclaimed documentary on civil rights in America. PBS, 1986-1990.

SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference

San Francisco, Calif., California Newsreel, 2011.

"Conference proceedings of veteran and youth activists gathered at Shaw University in North Carolina to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an organization which formed the vanguard of the Civil Rights Movement. " 38 DVDs of presentations, discussions, and concerts. Many of the programs feature SNCC veterans who provide an invaluable oral history of the Movement.

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.