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Alternative Press Index Archive This link opens in a new window
A collection of journals, newspaper, and magazine articles with a focus on international alternative, radical, and left periodicals published from1969 through 1990.
American Indian History This link opens in a new window
A database with primary sources, videos, and images relating to more than 600 Native American groups.
Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Articles from scholarly journals in communication, mass media, and related fields.
This database offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 440 journals in communication and mass media, selective coverage of nearly 200 additional journals, and full text for more than 500 journals. Many of the more important journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable cited references from their first issues (dating as far back as 1915) to the present.

Special features include a Communication Thesaurus, searchable cited references for peer-reviewed journals, and profiles providing biographical and bibliographical data for of more than 3,000 authors in the field.

The database incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive sociology database with strong coverage of social work, anthropology, and education.
A comprehensive social sciences research database with full text for more than 1,700 journals dating back to 1908. It also provides full text for more than 830 books and 14,000 conference papers. Subject indexing is based on a sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers.

Primary Source Collections

A select list of archives & digital collections related to activist movements. Don't see your topic on the list? Looking for more primary sources? Try this search:

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ACT-UP Oral History Project
Activism in the U.S. - Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
An exhibit of primary resource material related to civil rights, anti-war, education, women's, & LBGT activism

African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 This link opens in a new window
A collection of more than 170 periodicals by and about African Americans published between 1825 and 1995.

American Radicalism Collection, Michigan State University Libraries
Contains materials on political, social, and economic issues produced by left and right radical groups.
The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Civil Rights Digital Library
"The Civil Rights Digital Library promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement by helping users discover primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale." (from the website)
Digital Feminist Archives - Barnard Center for Research on Women
Farmworker Movement Documentation Project
Primary source accounts: photographs, oral histories, videos, essays and historical documents from the United Farm Worker Delano Grape Strikers and the UFW Volunteers who worked with Cesar Chavez to build his farmworker movement. Published by the San Diego Library.
Feminist Research Center
Provides links to the National Women's History Project, women's history collections, and the Feminist Chronicles, a history of the U.S. women's movement from 1953 to 1993. The Feminist Majority Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to women's equality, reproductive health, and non-violence, sponsors the page.
Japanese-American Internment Camp Newspapers, 1942 to 1946

Independent Voices This link opens in a new window
A collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals that were produced by feminists, Native Americans, Black Power advocates, and many more groups in the latter half of the 20th century.

The Lesbian Herstory Archives
Largest collection of materials about lesbians and their history and communities. Located in Brooklyn, but website has digital collections.
The Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies
Contains "over 3,000 linear feet of material about the GLBT experience. It includes published material, organizational records, personal manuscripts, informational files, films, music, textiles, posters, and other items."
University of Minnesota Social Welfare History Archives
Books, articles, pamphlets and more related to social services & social reform movements in the 19th & 20th century.
Women's Liberation Movement Print Culture Collection
Digital Schomburg, NY Public Library
Exhibitions, books, articles, photographs, prints, audio and video streams, and selected external links for research in the history and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora.
American Indian Movement, 1968-1978 (Digital Public Library of America)
Founded in July 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the American Indian Movement (AIM) is an American Indian advocacy group organized to address issues related to sovereignty, leadership, and treaties.

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