U.S. Social Justice & Reform Movements: Finding Articles & Documents

African American history & culture from its African origins to the present day. It encompasses the myriad contributions of individuals from the African American community who have achieved prominence in the arts, entertainment, the sciences, business, the military, and politics as well as nameless others who endured the travails of slavery and institutionalized discrimination. Contains over 8,000 primary documents, including slave narratives, speeches, court cases, quotations, advertisements, statistics, 1,500 photographs, maps, and other images.
Coverage: Late 1700s to present

Religion. This archive was developed in conjunction with the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) as part of an effort to preserve endangered serials related to African American religious life and culture. Content was provided by 75 institutions and includes over 170 titles which are unique to this collection.
Coverage: 1829-1922

Articles from many respected grassroots newspapers, magazines, and journals. It offers a wide range of unfettered, critical coverage of the news. 1995 to present.

Index to articles in international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Topics include indigenous peoples, LGBTQIA, feminism, ecology, democracy, and anarchism. 1969 to present.

United States and Canadian history from prehistoric times to the present. The database indexes all key journals in the discipline, state and local history publications. Indexing from 1895, full text from 1935.

Focuses on the struggle for civil rights and U.S. Supreme Court issues related to civil liberties, race and gender. 1912-1990.

Thesis-driven, peer-reviewed scholarly essays on American Indian history, culture and politics from precontact to the colonial era into the 21st century, and from the Inuit of Alaska to the Seminole of Florida. Content includes hundreds of primary documents and media, including treaties, speeches, captivity narratives, traditional storytelling, maps, photographs, and video.
Coverage: Prehistory - present

Primary sources providing a unique insight into interactions between indigenous people of North America and Europeans from their earliest contact, through the American Civil War and the civil rights movement of the 20th century. 16th-20th century.

A database of native North American culture, history, and life. Covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. 16th century to present.

Contains approximately 1,600 documents focused on six different phases of Black Freedom: Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860), The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877), and The Contemporary Era (1976-2000). Documents represent a selection of primary sources available in several ProQuest databases, including American Periodicals, Black Abolitionist Papers, ProQuest History Vault, ProQuest Congressional, Supreme Court Insight, and Alexander Street’s Black Thought and Culture. 1790-2000

Original literary works, political, economic, social issues, social science, arts & letters and the humanities concerning Central & South America, Mexico, Caribbean basin, United States-Mexico border region, & Hispanics in the US. 1970 to present

Multi-Subject. -- Access begins with the first volume for many journal titles, but usually does not have the newest volumes of each journal.

Project MUSE offers full-text current and archival articles from 500+ scholarly journals from major university presses covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more. Updated continually.

History, society, culture, and politics of the U.S.A. in the 1960s. Diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary provide insight to the issues of the time - Civil Rights; Counter-Culture; Environmental Movement; Gay and Lesbian Rights; Law and Government; Mass Media; New Left and Emerging Neo-Conservative Movement; Science and Technology; Student Activism; Vietnam War; and Women’s Movement.

Articles from 45 newspapers from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada. Some content is bi-lingual, English translations of Hawaiian, Cherokee and Navajo languages. 1828-2016.

View full page and article images and search full text of the newspaper which had the first black White House correspondent and was the first black daily in the nation in the 20th century. 1931-2010.

This newspaper was a proponent of The Great Migration, the move of over 1.5 million African-Americans from the segregated South to the industrial North from 1915 to 1925. It reported on the Red Summer race riots of 1919, editorialized for anti-lynching legislation, integration of blacks into the U.S. military, and promoted the writing of Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks, poet laureate of Illinois. 1909-1975.

News, culture, and history from 300 publications of ethnic, minority, and native presses. 1990-present.

Hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers, including many long scattered and forgotten titles published in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Search multiple popular American newspapers (Black and White) back to the first issues: Examples include Atlanta Daily World, Austin American Statesman, Chicago Defender, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Sentinel, Los Angeles Times, and many more.

Full page and article images with searchable full text of the oldest and largest black newspaper in the western United States. This newspaper has has exposed prejudice, promoted social change, and empowered the black community since its inception. 1934-2005.

Complete electronic editions of more than 5,300 U.S. and international news sources from 140 countries on six continents. It features most major U.S. news sources circulation, including Texas newspapers, plus many hard-to-find local and regional titles that are unavailable elsewhere.

A conservative voice in the African-American community, this newspaper challenged the misrepresentation of African-Americans in the national media and advocated social reforms to advance the cause of civil rights. Intellectuals and influential writers such as W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, and others contributed. 1911-2002.

Current issues of the major newspapers of the United States. Includes the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and Chicago Tribune.