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About This Guide

This Research Guide focuses on the civil rights movements in the United States in the 1960s. Sources cover mainly African Americans, but include American Indians, Hispanic Americans, women, gays and people with disabilities. Suggested database searches lead to articles about select major figures and events of the movements. Information about events not included in the suggested searches may be found in the Books section or in the listed web sites. Some sources cover events prior to the 1960s and/or current issues.

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American Indian Movement Grand Governing Council
This site mainly addresses current and on-going issues such as sports mascots and the Leonard Peltier case. Click on "AIM-GGC Profile" to read a history and chronology of the American Indian Movement, founded in 1968.
Civilrights.org
A collaboration of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund, civilrights.org provides relevant and timely civil rights news and information.
Credo Reference
A collection of 100 reference tools that may be searched collectively or individually. It includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, statistical sources, biographical tools, thesauri, books of quotations, image collections, and more.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (OVRC) provides viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles related to controversial social issues.
The Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement
This site, from UC Berkeley, contains oral histories and audio and video clips from individuals and organizations in the disability rights movement. Searchable by person/organization or subject.
Viva Cesar E. Chavez!
From the Cesar E. Chavez Institute at San Francisco State University, this site includes articles, interviews, speeches, photos, documents and links about Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers of America. Viewed best in Mozilla Firefox.
Voices of Civil Rights
This is the web site of a project by the Library of Congress, the AARP and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights to "collect and preserve personal accounts of America's struggle to fulfill the promise of equality for all."