Primary Sources: Civil Rights and Multiculturalism

This site is a gateway to the vast and growing array of information on the Web and in other sources on the lives and histories of the millions of African Americans who have and continue to make the West their home.

Browse or search photographs and documents in the University of Washington Collection

Use this to find photographs, original art, cartoons and other illustrations; letters, excerpts from diaries, business records, and legal documents; as well as pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, sheet music about 19th and early 20th century Chinese immigration to California.

Online exhibit with concise summaries of activist movements with linked primary sources, such as photos and videos.

Primary source accounts: photographs, oral histories, videos, essays and historical documents from the United Farm Worker Delano Grape Strikers and the UFW Volunteers who worked with Cesar Chavez to build his farmworker movement.

A research guide to primary and secondary sources for African American history

Use this to learn about Japanese internment through music, images and first person accounts.

"This primary source set uses documents, photographs, videos, and news stories to tell the story of the first decade of the American Indian Movement."

The 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.

Race and Place is an archive about the racial segregation laws, or the 'Jim Crow' laws from the late 1880s until the mid-twentieth century. The focus of the collection is the town of Charlottesville in Virginia.

Use this to learn about the vital history of Seattle's civil rights movements, with scores of video oral histories, hundreds of rare photographs, documents, movement histories, and personal biographies.

Archive of digitized audio files documenting the experiences of activists in the Civil Rights Movement.

Archive documenting the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964. Includes primary documents and images.