Public Services Librarian
Calvin Cleary
Contact:
Beeghly Library
740-368-3237
Subjects: Africana, Gender, and Identity Studies, Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies, Citations, Classics, Comparative Literature, East Asian Studies, Education, English, Film Studies, Fine Arts, History, Images, Journalism and Communication, Latin American Studies, Performing Arts, Religion and Philosophy, Sociology and Anthropology, World Languages and Culture
Civil Rights Primary Source Collections
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Umbra Search African American HistoryBrings together thousands of digitized material on African American History from over 1000 libraries and archives from across the country.
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Civil Rights Digital LibraryThe Civil Rights Digital Library Initiative represents one of the most ambitious and comprehensive efforts to date to deliver educational content on the Civil Rights Movement via the Web.
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American Memory from Library of Congress
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.
Oral History Collections
- Behind the VeilProject from Duke University to preserve the living memories of African Americans living in the American South under Jim Crow Laws from the 1890s to the 1950s.
- National Visionary Leadership ProjectNVLP has recorded and preserved more than 330 high-quality professional video interviews with extraordinary African-American elders, age 70 and older, through its Oral History Archive, housed in the U.S Library of Congress and available through the NVLP website.
Documentaries
- PBS VideoAn ad-supported streaming of a wide variety of PBS programming, including vital programs like documentary news series Frontline and science education program Nova, going back years.
- Eyes on the prize (DVD)Call Number: Media CenterFour Part Series, originally broadcast in 1986 as a special presentation of The American experience. The definitive story of the Civil Rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations are felt today
Books
Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement by Call Number: E185.97.K5 K57 2013ISBN: 140822013XPublication Date: 2013-11-21
Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965 by Call Number: E185.61 .W828 2009ISBN: 1604731079Publication Date: 2009
The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory by Call Number: E185.615 .C587 2006ISBN: 0820328146Publication Date: 2006
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