Author: lbaker

  • BHM #29 – James Meredith, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Integration of the University of Mississippi

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    James Meredith, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Integration of the University of Mississippi   Many today only know Ole Miss for football.   Often memories are short where sports are concerned, especially the juggernaut that is American college football in the south.  But there is no denying the violent struggle that took place to integrate the…

  • BHM #27 – FBI Surveillance of James Forman and SNCC

    BHM #27 – FBI Surveillance of James Forman and SNCC

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    lbaker

    What are we to make of the vast surveillance apparatus directed at African Americans by the US government?? Materials in FBI Surveillance of James Forman and SNCC and Federal surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984 (see blog post BHM #22) reveal the lengths the Federal Government went to control and undermine those in the civil rights…

  • BHM #24 – Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement

    BHM #24 – Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement

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    Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement Series 15 in this 18-series collection consists of the publications The African World, Black Nation, Black NewArk, Unity and Struggle, Main Trend, and IFCO News. The African World was originally published by SOBU/YOBU (Student Organization for Black Unity/Youth Organization for Black Unity), and the…

  • BHM #19 – Reconstruction and Military Government after the Civil War (1865-1877)

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    Reconstruction and Military Government after the Civil War (1865-1877) From heart-wrenching personal letters to bills of lading for office supplies, this module offers remarkable insight into the early Reconstruction period in the American South. The correspondence of the U.S. Army’s Office of Civil Affairs reveals efforts to foster democracy and rebuild communities in the divided…

  • BHM #18 – Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Communist Party: Papers of James and Esther Cooper Jackson

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    Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Communist Party: Papers of James and Esther Cooper Jackson Who were James and Esther Cooper Jackson??  James Jackson (1914-2007) and Esther Cooper Jackson (1917-2022) were a married African American couple who devoted their lives to fight for equality.  The Jacksons saw a path to racial equality through the Communist…

  • BHM #14 – “We were prepared for the possibility of death …”

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    “We were prepared for the possibility of death” Freedom Riders in the South, 1961  Another primary source from Archives Unbound, this collection is sourced from the FBI.  It includes documents from 1961 when civil rights activists, “Freedom Riders”, rode interstate buses into the segregated South to test the United States Supreme Court decision in Boynton…

  • BHM #12 – Africa and the New Imperialism

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    Africa and the New Imperialism,  part of the Adam Matthew collections of primary sources, documents the period of rapid colonial expansion by European powers across the African continent during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.    From the accounts of missionaries and European explorers navigating the interior of the continent in the early nineteenth century;…

  • BHM #11 – Black Abolitionist Papers

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      Black Abolitionist Papers  –This primary source collection details the extensive work of African Americans to abolish slavery in the United States prior to the Civil War. Covering the period 1830-1865, the collection presents the international impact of African American activism against slavery, in the writings of the activists themselves. The approximately 15,000 articles, documents,…

  • BHM #9 – Civil Rights and Social Justice

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    HeinOnline’s Civil Rights and Social Justice database brings together diverse publications covering civil rights in the United States.   This database is packed with great resources all in one place!  It contains links to scholarly articles, hearings and committee prints, legislative histories on the landmark legislation, CRS and GAO reports, briefs from major Supreme Court cases,…

  • BHM in Databases #8 – Ethnic NewsWatch

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    lbaker

    Ethnic NewsWatch™ (ENW) is a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press. The complete collection also includes the module Ethnic NewsWatch: A History™, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989. Together, these resources present a full-text collection of more than…