Civil Rights Movement

You can start with a keyword search in the catalog, but be sure to look at the subject headings for books and videos that are relevant to your topic.  Then search those headings.  For instance, a search on Civil rights movement will retrieve works that have the subject headings:

African American civil rights workers

African-Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century

Black Power

Civil rights demonstrations -- [State] -- [City]

Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Civil rights workers

Race relations

School integration

Segregation in education

Segregation in transportation

Women civil rights workers

Women political activists

Women social reformers

When you click on a subject heading in a record, you are taken to a hierarchical list of headings, so you will also find

Segregation in transportation -- Alabama -- Montgomery

When you see the following subheadings, it indicates primary source material:

• correspondence*
• diaries*
• interviews*
• personal narratives
• pictorial works
• songs and music
• sources
• speeches, addresses, etc.*
• treaties 

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