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Main Library | 7:30am – 2:00am |
Circulation Desk | 7:30am – 2:00am |
Digital Humanities Lab | 7:30am – 2:00am |
Interlibrary Loan Office | 8:00am – 5:00pm |
Reference Desk | 9:00am – 10:00pm |
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.
These links will take you to resources about the Civil Rights Movement. Many of the Web resources contain both primary and secondary sources.
Freedom on Film: Civil Rights in Georgia
Civil Rights Movement
Entry in New Georgia Encyclopedia, Stephen Tuck, author
GALILEO : collection of over 400 research databases, including:
Historical Abstracts Index and abstracts to articles on world history 1450 to present (excluding U.S. and Canada).
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.
Video has been posted with permission from Bob Baker, Pima Community College.