Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database. It provides access to over 5,300 full-text periodicals, including approximately 4,400 peer-reviewed journals.
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Black Freedom Struggle in the United States: Challenges and Triumphs in the Pursuit of Equality is focused on Black Freedom, featuring select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. This resource is intended is to support a wide range of students, as well as independent researchers and anyone interested in learning more about the foundation of ongoing racial injustice in the U.S. and the fights against it.
Provided free of charge by HeinOnline, the Civil Rights and Social Justice collection contains an array of primary and secondary source materials focusing on civil rights in the United States as their legal protections and definitions are expanded to cover more and more Americans.
The Handbook of African American Texas has more than 850 entries on African Americans in Texas, many of which appeared in the earlier versions of the handbook, and approximately 300 new articles about all aspects of African American life and history in Texas.
This handbook is initiated to capture, to create greater awareness, and to increase research on the roles and contributions that Afro-Texans (individuals, groups, and organizations) have made to their neighborhoods, cities, state, and often the nation and beyond. Many of the new entries are enriched with illustrations. A good number of these images were provided for the handbook of Texas Music. The spin-off also includes photographs from Southern Methodist University Digital Collections and from various individuals. the handbook of African American Texas will continue to be enhanced in the coming months as more entries and images are added.
RESEARCH TIPS
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