Getting Started/Browsing
The following sources related to the civil rights movement are meant for browsing: check out things here and see what whets your appetite for more research.
- Online Resources: Take a look at some of these civil rights sites to get a sense of what might interest you enough to read further.
- Photo Resources: Here are some easily accessed repositories of photographs related to the civil rights movement.
- Selected Bibliography: Here is a list of book-length accounts of various aspects of the movement, ones that may attract your interest..
Getting More Serious: “Academic Research”
- Primary Sources: If you want to find the “originals”–original speeches, documents, videos, newspapers, photographs, and so forth (related to the civil rights movement)–here’s how to find them.
- Secondary Sources: Secondary sources are written commentaries on primary works; they are published in books, periodicals, and online. Here’s how to access secondary research on the civil rights movement so that you’re not limited to Wikipedia!
- Websites
- Timelines and Resources
Library Course Guide (For Penn State Students Only)
This collection of resources was compiled by Penn State librarian Eric Novotny; It is excellent for both primary and secondary research.