LibGuides: Civil Rights In America: Primary Sources

Books

Legacy
Contains over 150 documents, letters, images, and artifacts representing African-American history from the African slave trade and Civil War, the Harlem Renaissance and the Jim Crow Era, and the modern Civil Rights movement.
Milestone Documents in African American History
A collection of primary sources, arranged chronologically from 1901 through 1964, that document the history of African-Americans.

Amistad Video Library (from Columbia University). Contains interviews.

American Experience Presidential speeches and statements during the Civil Rights movement.

American Radio Works Interviews of people about the Jim Crow South experience.

PBS: Rise & Fall of Jim Crow Videos, documents, photographs, interviews.

The King Center Archive Videos, speeches, letters written by Dr. Martin Luther King and his cohort.