Research Guides: HIST 4600: The new New South, 1929-present: Primary Sources

Charlotte Observer

Charlotte Observer (1886-present) This link opens in a new window
Charlotte Observer online from 1886 to the present.

Digital Collections

African American Communities (Adam Matthew) This link opens in a new window
Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina this resource presents multiple aspects of the African American community through pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, reports and in-depth oral histories.

Civil Rights Digital Library
Promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement by helping users discover primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale.
Documenting the American South
Primary source materials relating to Southern history. Open access.
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A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Includes: First-Person Narratives of the American South; Library of Southern Literature; North American Slave Narratives; The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865; The Church in the Southern Black Community.

Food and Drink in History (Adam Matthew) This link opens in a new window
Explores primary source material documenting the story of food and drink throughout history. The materials in this collection illustrate the deep links between food and identity, politics and power, gender, race and socio-economic status.

Google Books
Full text search of books and magazines scanned by Google. Includes historical access to Ebony, Life, Black Enterprise, Billboard, The Advocate, and many more.

Greensboro Massacre, 1979: Shootout between the American Nazis and the Communist Workers Party This link opens in a new window
Collection of documents from FBI, local and state police, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and the Civill Rights Division of the Justice Department relating to the shootout and the aftermath.
Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture: The History of Tourism (Adam Matthew) This link opens in a new window
Explores the history and growth of tourism through guidebooks, brochures, photos, and personal travel journals for the average traveler from c. 1850- the 1980s.
Race Relations in America (Adam Matthew) This link opens in a new window
Documenting three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights, this resource showcases the speeches, reports, surveys and analyses produced by the Race Relations Department based at Fisk University c. 1943-1970.
We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death: Freedom Riders in the South, 1961 This link opens in a new window
A civil rights group's mission - and the FBI's coverage of it - provide a perspective into American politics and society through surveillance reports, chronologies, witness statements and more.

Newspapers

Chronicling America: Historic Newspapers 1789-1963
Newspaper digitization project from the Library of Congress

African American Newspapers Series 1: 1827-1998 This link opens in a new window
Provides access to U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African-American experience. This collection includes historically significant papers and features many rare 19th-century titles.
Atlanta Constitution (1868-1942) This link opens in a new window
Newspaper includes obituaries, stocks and editorials.
Chicago Defender (1910-1975) This link opens in a new window
A leading African-American newspaper, with more than two-thirds of its readership outside of Chicago.
Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 This link opens in a new window
Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during 19th and 20th centuries. Many of these newspapers were published bilingually in Spanish and English.
Historic North Carolina Digital Newspaper Collection This link opens in a new window
Newspapers.com North Carolina Collection includes digitized content from over 1,000 NC county newspapers.
Independent Voices This link opens in a new window
An open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers and magazines produced by feminists, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, and the extreme right-wing press.
New York Times Historical Archives (1851-2010) This link opens in a new window
Major global newspaper including news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, as well as photos and advertisements.
Times Picayune (1923-1988) This link opens in a new window
News Orleans-based newspaper covering 1923-1988

Living Charlotte

Living Charlotte: The Postwar Development of a New South City, 1944-1987
Partnering with the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library’s Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room, J. Murrey Atkins Library is leading Living Charlotte, a project to digitize audio oral history recordings, municipal city planning and development documents, and the personal and legal papers of key individuals in the civil rights and desegregation movements.

Government Documents

ProQuest Congressional Hearings This link opens in a new window
Access congressional publications dealing with the wide variety of topics addressed by Congress.
U.S. Congressional Serial Set This link opens in a new window
Reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 1817-1962.
LexisNexis Federal and State Cases (now Nexis Uni) This link opens in a new window
Locate case laws, Supreme Court cases, federal court cases and state court cases. Provides full-text of court opinions from federal and state courts.
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new window
Source for legal research, business, news, etc. Search across global news sources, access federal and state legal cases, find company information, and more.

HIST 4600: The new New South, 1929-present

NCpedia

DigitalNC

DPLA

HathiTrust

Internet Archive

NC Newspaper Locator

Charlotte Observer

Digital Collections

Newspapers

Living Charlotte

Government Documents