HIST 205: Black Women Activists

Searchable content of American historic newspapers from 1777-1963, as well as U.S. Newspaper Directory for finding information about American newspapers published between 1690-current.

Full text of the newspaper from 1851-2017.

Coverage of national leading newspapers, including The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, and other US newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites.

Primary source material from leading issues and events, like the U.S. Civil War, immigration, westward expansion, industrial developments, race relations, and World War I and II; to international, local and regional politics, society, arts, culture, business, and sports. 

International, U.S., South Carolina, and regional newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts, and videos.

Digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals, documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the early 1910's.

American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century

An archival database of primary source material that provides a rich collection of digitized magazines covering the film, television, music, and theater industries. Offers a unique historical perspective on the business and creative aspects of entertainment, featuring trade publications, fan magazines, and scholarly journals.

Documents originated by the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation on operatives investigating politically suspect figures and organizations. Topics include A. Philip Randolph, the Black Panther Party of NC, the Committee for Public Justice, Malcolm X, Mississippi Burning, NAACP, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, and many others. Dates of coverage: 1920-1984.

FBI Library documents on on the internal organization, personnel, and activities of some of the most prominent radical groups in the United States in the 1960s. Subjects include COINTELPRO, Abbie Hoffman, the United Farm Workers, Students for a Democratic Society, Kent State University, and Brown Berets. Dates of coverage: 1956-1971

FBI Library documents on civil rights activists, the Freedom Riders, who rode interstate buses into the segregated South to test the United States Supreme Court decision in Boynton v. Virginia, which outlawed racial segregation in the restaurants and waiting rooms in terminals serving buses that crossed state lines.

Primary source archival materials on: Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle; Southern Life, Slavery, and the Civil War; Women's Studies; Workers, Labor Unions, Progressives, and Radicals; American Indians and the American West; American Politics and Society; International Relations and Military Conflicts.

Black Thought and Culture is an electronic collection of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history. In addition to the most familiar works, a great deal of previously inaccessible material, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trial transcripts is included.

Collection of diaries and letters from more than 1,000 individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950, as well as biographical sketeches of people represented in this database.