The National Negro Congress was established in 1936 and conceived as a national coalition of church, labor, and civil rights organizations that would coordinate protest action. This resource is provided by funds from a donation by the Williams Companies to the University's Center for Civil Rights History and Research.

Digital archive of translated CIA documents provide foreign perspectives of American racial issues in the second half of the 20th century. This resource is provided by funds from a donation by the Williams Companies to the University's Center for Civil Rights History and Research.

Presents the international impact of African American activism against slavery, in the writings of the activists themselves. This resource is provided by funds from a donation by the Williams Companies to the University's Center for Civil Rights History and Research.

Executive branch documents revealing African Americans' and civil rights organizations' interactions with the federal government over multiple presidential administrations, covering topics including forced labor, military service, FBI surveillance, and more. This resource is provided by funds from a donation by the Williams Companies to the University's Center for Civil Rights History and Research.

Highlights include records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, and the Mary McLeod Bethune papers. This resource is provided by funds from a donation by the Williams Companies to the University's Center for Civil Rights History and Research.

A unique digital archive of American and global news media covering the African American experience from 1704 to the present. Series 1 and 2 are provided by funds from a donation by the Williams Companies to the University's Center for Civil Rights History and Research.

Correspondence and papers of James Dombrowski, a southern white Methodist minister and intellectual who was active in the African American civil rights movement from the 1940s through the 1960s. This resource is provided by funds from a donation by the Williams Companies to the University's Center for Civil Rights History and Research.

Correspondence and papers of Fannie Lou Hamer, a voting rights activist and civil rights leader who was instrumental in organizing Mississippi Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, among many other accomplishments. This resource is provided by funds from a donation by the Williams Companies to the University's Center for Civil Rights History and Research.

Records trace the Council's active participation in social action, its engagement in race relations, Indian relations, opposition to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, and the protection of the civil rights of war victims and Japanese-Americans during the Second World War. This resource is provided by funds from a donation by the Williams Companies to the University's Center for Civil Rights History and Research.

Search hundreds of newspapers published in the United States by Hispanics, including many Spanish-language and bilingual publications.

Search across this collection of newspapers in Spanish, English, Portuguese and French from across 20 countries in the Caribbean and Central and South America. Series 2 recently added!

Includes directives and memoranda from the Public Housing Administration, including civil rights correspondence, statements and policy about race, policies on hiring minorities, court cases involving housing decisions, racially-restrictive covenants, and news clippings. This resource is provided by funds from a donation by the Williams Companies to the University's Center for Civil Rights History and Research.

Transcriptions of hundreds of interviews with those who made history in the struggles for voting rights, against discrimination in housing, for the desegregation of the schools, to expose racism in hiring, in defiance of police brutality, and to address poverty in the African American communities. This resource is provided by funds from a donation by the Williams Companies to the University's Center for Civil Rights History and Research.

Documents the efforts of district attorneys from southern states to uphold federal laws in the states that fought in the Confederacy or were Border States through correspondence about Reconstruction conflicts, voting rights, civil rights, and more. This resource is provided by funds from a donation by the Williams Companies to the University's Center for Civil Rights History and Research.

Access the full archive back to 1967 of this influential magazine covering rock and popular music journalism, as well as wider entertainment topics such as film and popular culture.

Fully searchable, cover-to-cover access to this prominent weekly news magazine dating back to its first issue.

Records concerning the activities of Maurice Dawkins, Assistant Director for Civil Rights in the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), which was created in 1964 as part of President Johnson's Great Society domestic agenda. This resource is provided by funds from a donation by the Williams Companies to the University's Center for Civil Rights History and Research.