*African and African American Studies (AAAS)

Freedom Summer was an effort by civil rights activists to integrate Mississippi's segregated political system.

Documents by and about the Black Panthers, 1968-1970s.

The first set of papers on 49 reels chronicle the development of CORE as a local and national organization, as well as provide insight into the Civil Rights movement. The papers are primarily from the period 1959 to 1964. Additional papers (25 reels) were later added. There are guides for each part.

Official transcript of the trial at the New York Supreme Court reproduced from the original documents of the criminal branch of the New York State Supreme Court Library.

"Includes over 100,000 items of correspondence (more than three quarters of the papers), speeches, articles, newspaper columns, nonfiction books, research materials, book reviews, pamphlets and leaflets, petitions, novels, essays, forewords, student papers, manuscripts of pageants, plays, short stories and fables, poetry, photographs, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, videotapes, audiotapes, and miscellaneous materials. Scholar, writer, editor of The Crisis and other journals, co-founder of the Niagara Movement, the NAACP, and the Pan African Congresses, international spokesperson for peace and for the rights of oppressed minorities, W.E.B. Du Bois was a son of Massachusetts who articulated the strivings of African Americans and developed a trenchant analysis of the problem of the color line in the twentieth century." (UMASS Amherst Special Collections)

Records of activism in the United States that support "the struggle of African peoples against colonialism, apartheid, and social injustice from the 1950s through the 1990s."

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century is a digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. NYPL digital collections.

From UMASS Amherst Special Collections. "A scholar, educator, and advocate for civil rights, Horace Mann Bond was a key figure in the growth of historically Black colleges during the decades surrounding Brown v. Board of Education. Bond’s remarkable collection of personal papers is rich in correspondence with leading African American intellectuals and figures in the emerging world of independent Africa."