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.
Explore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from early European colonization up to photographs and Indigenous newspapers from the mid-twentieth century. Browse through a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, to historic maps and travel journals.
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.
Collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding about U.S. women’s history generally and includes document projects and archives with full-text. Topics include: suffrage, anti-slavery, women's rights, temperance, women's clubs. Also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.