The primary source collections below have a significant amount of materials that cover various American protest movements. For secondary literature, see the recommendations on the Scholarly Sources page.
Searchable printed works covering the pivotal post-Reconstruction period The most significant works by and about African Americans from the beginning of Jim Crow to post-World War I New perspectives on African-American culture, rights and daily life during a time of segregation and disenfranchisement
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Material from the Newberry Library’s Edward E. Ayer Collection contains early contacts between Europeans and American Indians and the subsequent political, social and cultural effects of those encounters on American Indian life. It covers the period from early western frontier through the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century.
The Archives of Sexuality and Gender program spans the sixteenth to twentieth centuries and is the largest digital collection of historical primary source publications relating to the history and study of sex, sexuality, and gender research and gender studies research.
John L. LeFlore was a key figure in the fight for black equality in Mobile, Alabama, southern Alabama, Mississippi, and along the Florida Gulf Coast. He was the first African American appointed to the Housing Board and elected to the state legislature since Reconstruction. His work dates back to 1961-1975.
Primary source material pertaining to the civil rights movement and to U.S. foreign policy during the Vietnam War era. Includes federal records, letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, and diaries is organized in five subject categories.
Published histories and records of women’s reform organizations throughout the United States during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It includes The History of Woman Suffrage; proceedings of the national conventions of female Anti-Slavery societies in the 1830s and of women’s rights conventions in the 1850s and 1860s; annual reports of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union; and local and national histories of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs.