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HIST 4120 Civil Rights Movement Fall 2014: Civil Rights Movement-Secondary Sources

Tips and Tricks

Doing some secondary source research before you begin looking at primary sources will help the primary sources make more sense. 

Check out books as well as online articles.

Keep a list of key players involved in events related to to your topic.

Keep a list of key events and dates.

Make note of nicknames, slang terms, alternative forms of  names related to your topic.

Put this list on a laptop, phone or other device so you can have ready access to it.  

Primary Vs. Secondary Sources

Civil Rights Movement-related Web Resources

These links will take you to resources about the Civil Rights Movement. Many of the Web resources contain both primary and secondary sources.

Civl Rights Digital Library

Freedom on Film: Civil Rights in Georgia  

Civil Rights Movement 
Entry in  New Georgia Encyclopedia, Stephen Tuck, author

 

Online--Secondary Sources Available via the Internet

GALILEO : collection of over 400 research databases, including:

  • America: History & Life with Full Text (EBSCO) History and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Includes the Georgia Historical Quarterly 1955-present and seven other Georgia historical journals (dates vary).
  • Historical Abstracts  Index and abstracts to articles on world history 1450 to present (excluding U.S. and Canada).

  • JSTOR : core journals in many fields from their first issue (dating to the 1700s in some cases) to 3-5 years ago

Galileo Login information

In Print--Secondary Sources in the Main Library at UGA

Julie Buckner Armstrong and Amy Schmidt, eds., The Civil Rights Reader: American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009). Get location information

Ronald H. Bayor, Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996). An electronic book accessible through GALILEO; click here

Owen J. Dwyer and Derek H. Alderman, Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory (Chicago: Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, 2008; distributed by University of Georgia Press). Get location information here

Donald L. Grant, The Way It Was in the South: The Black Experience in Georgia (Secaucus, N.J. Carol Publishing Group, 1993).Get location information here

Tera Hunter, To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997).Get location information

John Inscoe, Georgia in black and white : explorations in the race relations of a southern state, 1865-1950 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994). Get location information here

Jason Sokol, There goes my everything : white Southerners in the age of civil rights, 1945-1975 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006). Get location information

Jason Morgan Ward, Defending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936-1965 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011). Get location information 

*If a book isn't available  from UGA, you can usually  request it through Gil Express  and it will arrive on campus for you to pick up in just a few days.

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Types of Sources

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