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Civil Rights and Social Movements

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
The Long Civil Rights Movement: Works, Comments, and Links.
“Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement” Project at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Big Brother on the Watch

Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s
Searchable collection of FBI files. Includes the COINTELPRO files, and files on Abbie Hoffman, the Black Panther Party, Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, Kent State, Malcolm X, Mississippi burning, Muslim Mosque, Inc., the Organization of Afro-American Unity, the Students for a Democratic Society and the Weatherman Underground Organization, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and on Communist Infiltration of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Rutgers-restricted Access
Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984
Previously classified FBI files on prominent African Americans and African-American organizations.
FBI Electronic Reading Room [The Vault].
Digital documents from the files of the FBI. You can use the A-Z Index, or browse through categories of documents including "Anti-War," "Civil Rights," "Political Figures and Events," and "Popular Culture."