This guide is intended to help you begin researching the history of the African American Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
This guide is not comprehensive; it does not list all of the resources on this subject or in related disciplines owned by the Library or available on the Internet. This guide serves merely as a starting point for research.
What are reference books good for? A lot!
Subject headings allow you to find books according to broader and narrower topics.
Below are sample subjects. To browse for different, broader, or narrower subjects, go to the library catalog and click "Exact Search." Enter a term and click "subject."
You can start browsing for a broad subject like Civil Rights, then look for more specific subjects, such as Civil Rights Movements United States.
Once you know some subject headings, you can also just use them as keywords during an advanced search, using the subject row.
You can browse for books on the history of the black civil rights movement in the U.S. in this call number range:
E184.5 - E185.98 (4th floor)
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The following list represents only a small sampling of books in the Library about the Civil Rights movement. Search for more books about the U.S. Civil Rights Movement...
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