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Black Freedom Struggle in the United States
Features select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. Contains over 1,600 documents.

Black Studies Center
Fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books, and more. Includes essential resources such as The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, Index to Black Periodicals Full Text, Black Literature Index, and the Chicago Defender historical newspaper from 1912-1975. Full text.
Exploring Race in Society
Provides context and solutions-oriented points of view within a scholarly collection of proprietary and licensed content on topics related to race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness.

Slavery in America and the World Collection
Includes legal materials on slavery in the US & the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.
ProQuest Central
Multidisciplinary database covering many subject areas. Includes scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports & videos.
JSTOR
Collection of multidisciplinary academic journals, books and primary sources. Recent issues not always available.
Project Muse
Full text database of 160+ electronic journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.