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African American History

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What truly separates Primary Sources in African American History from other educational websites is a database of the most essential source materials for scholarshipsources that every scholar in the field must know and will turn to again and again. Available through the service are primary sources on the civil rights movement, the NAACPs legal campaign against segregation and racism, late 19th and early 20th century peonage cases in the South, African Americans and the New Deal, the crusade against the movie Birth of a Nation, and much more. Also included are rare materials on slavery from colonial through antebellum years, on the Civil War, reconstruction, and 20th-century political developments.

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This page describes the types of documents available in the service. Each quarterly update adds hundreds of new documents, focusing on primary sources. New document types will be added periodically.
 
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Leading scholars serve as academic advisers and guide the selection of primary source collections, as well as choosing important secondary sources that place the collections in historical context.
 
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History features both full-text keyword and controlled vocabulary subject index searching, as well as a unique browse function to survey all documents by type.


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