Other Voices of American Literature: Civil Rights Project

"A Weekly Newspaper Covering Civil Rights in the South 1965-68"
Founded by Harvard students who were part of the Freedom Summer
Archives:  1965-1968

Library of Congress 
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
This only covers events *up to 1963*

Eyewitness newspaper and magazine reports from the Civil Rights era.
2 volumes (print) of primary source documents

Sources on the Civil Rights Movement

All of the ebooks in GVRL are reference and non-fiction print sources that have been digitized for online delivery.

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ProQuest US Newstream
 

Ebsco Host Newspaper Source

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