Research Guides: HIST 3322/ 4333/ 5386: African American Civil Rights Movement: Find Articles

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Special Issue of History Now, Winter 2015 - The Civil Rights Act of 1964: Legislating Equality
This issue of History Now explores in depth the fronts on which dedicated civil rights activists and their allies pressed for racial equality fifty years ago. The issue includes essays from eminent historians and an interactive timeline of key moments in the passing of the Civil Rights act (featuring photographs of the activists, organizers, and others who worked to end racial discrimination). Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Special Issue of Humanities, Aug 2013
This special issue of Humanities: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities focuses on the long civil rights movement and includes in-depth features on topics such as civil rights historiography, the Freedom Rides, the Loving v. Virginia case, the African American forced labor system after the Civil War.
Civil Rights Articles from Southern Cultures
Featured articles from Southern Cultures relating to various aspects of the black Civil Rights movement. (Center for the Study of the American South at the Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)