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The Civil Rights Movement:

A Resource Guide

Upper School Library: Getting started

Go to Library homepage to find books such as these:
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (5 vols.). Oxford, 2005. Call no. REF 960.03 A258
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution, by Diane McWhorter. Simon and Schuster, 2001. Call no. 976.1781 M177c
Civil Rights in the United States. Macmillan, 2000. (2 vols.) Call no. REF 323.097303 C582
The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader. Penguin, 1991. Call no. 323.4 E97
Let Freedom Ring: A Documentary History of the Modern Civil Movement, by Peter B. Levy. Prager, 1992 Call no. 323.1 L645
Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform,and Renewal (An African American Anthology), edited by Manning Marable and Leith Mullings. Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. Call no. 973.0496 L645
My Soul is a Witness: A Chonology of the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1965, by Bettye Collier-Thomas. Holt, 2000. Call no. 973.0496 C699m
Parting the Waters : America in the King Years, 1954-63 (and its sequelae, Pillar of Fire and At Canaan's Edge), by Taylor Branch. Simon and Schuster, 1988. Call no. 973.0496 B816p
Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement, by Townsend Davis. Norton, 1998. Call no. 323.1196073 D264w

Finding books outside OES

Multnomah County Library catalog
Washington County Libraries catalog
Clackamas County Libraries catalog
SUMMIT Orbis Cascade Alliance: combined catalog of Pacific Northwest college and university libraries, and access to WORLDCAT, the combined catalog of libraries throughout the US and world.
Remember: Almost any book or publication you find in Orbis Cascade Alliance can be requested for you through interlibrary loan. Print out the record for the book and bring it to Chris Myers

Finding articles

ProquestPlatinum: General-interest magazines and newspapers, including citations for The Oregonian from 1989 to present
Gale InfoTrac : Made available through the Oregon School Library Information System (OSLIS). Magazines and journals across a wide spectrum of subject areas. For best results, go to "PowerSearch" and select the Academic OneFile and Popular Magazine indexes to search.
Proquest Historical New York Times. The entire run of the Times, accessible from the OES database collection.
The Oregonian in full text: To access The Oregonian in full-text (for articles from 1988 to the present), you must go Multnomah County Library's online newspaper collection , click on "The Oregonian," enter a valid Multnomah County Library card number and PIN, then begin searching. For articles published before 1988, you must search The Oregonian on microfilm in one of the local public libraries.
ArticleFirst: Accessible with your library card number from Multnomah County Library Databases
Remember: Almost any article you find in ArticleFirst or another index can be requested for you through interlibrary loan. Print out the citation for the article and bring it to Chris Myers

Government and institutional online collections