Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.

Find resources about the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, many of them arranged thematically.

Key Databases

Selected Newspapers & Magazines

Newspapers from Center for Research Libraries

Take a look at CRL's topic guide for News and note their extensive holdings.

Major categories within the news collection include:

  • African American newspapers
  • U.S. Ethnic newspapers
  • Civilian Conservation Corp. Camp papers
  • Underground and alternative press
  • U.S. newspapers

CRL also holds collections of scripts, transcripts, and translations of news reports, produced or compiled by the British Broadcasting Corporation, Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and the Voice of America.