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Library Resources Spotlight for Black History Month

Resources Spotlight: Black History Month Edition

This month the library added two new Open Access resources to the A-Z database list: 

• Black Freedom Struggle in the United States: Challenges and Triumphs in the Pursuit of Equality provides a selection of primary source documents from 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. This website contains over 3,000 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) 

  • Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932) 

  • The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945) 

  • The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975) 

  • The Contemporary Era (1976-2000) 

• Black Women’s Suffrage Digital Collection is a collaborative project to provide digital access to materials documenting the roles and experiences of Black Women in the Women’s Suffrage Movement and, more broadly, women’s rights, voting rights, and civic activism between the 1850s and 1960. The primary source materials in this collection include photographs, correspondence, speeches, event programs, publications, oral histories, and other artifacts. 

The library also created a Black History Month reading list featuring many books recently targeted by book-banning efforts across the country. We wanted to highlight these titles and their availability for everyone on campus. Come check them out!