African American History: Topical Digital Collections

Digital copies of nearly two million pages of NAACP internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices throughout the country. Click on a module below for a content description.

Modules:
Board of Directors, Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and National Staff Files
Branch Department, Branch Files and Youth Department Files
Special Files
The NAACP's Major Campaigns - Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed Forces
The NAACP's Major Campaigns - Legal Department Files
The NAACP's Major Campaigns - Scottsboro, Anti-Lynching, Criminal Justice, Peonage, Labor, and Segregation and Discrimination Complaints and Responses

Includes two modules: Federal Government Records and Federal Government Records, Supplement.

Documents include Civil Rights records from the Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush presidencies; the Martin Luther King FBI File and FBI Files on locations of major civil rights demonstrations like Montgomery and Selma, Alabama or St. Augustine, Florida.
See the product brochure for detailed content information.

Content includes:

• More than 170 unique titles related to African American life and culture
  
• Approximately 60,000 pages of searchable primary source content
  
• Reports and annuals from African American religious organizations and social service agencies, as well as African American periodicals

Coverage list (pdf)
Video tutorial on using EBSCO's Historical Digital Archives