LibGuides: AAST 290: Banned Books that Changed Black History (Wentworth): Databases

Organizational Archival Sources

Archives Unbound This link opens in a new window Includes primary source resources in the areas of African American studies, African studies, American and British history, military history, radical studies, LGBTQ+ studies, and more. For a complete list of the collections available to the College of Charleston, click the Browse Collections tab.
Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records This link opens in a new window The political side of the freedom movement, the role of civil rights organizations in pushing for civil rights legislation, and the interaction between African Americans and the federal government in the 20th century
Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 1 This link opens in a new window Branches out to cover other aspects of African American life in the 20th century, like religion, sports, education, fraternal organizations, and even the field of entertainment.
NAACP Papers - Collection 2 This link opens in a new window The NAACPs Major Campaigns Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed Forces
NAACP Papers - Collection 3 This link opens in a new window The NAACPs Major CampaignsScottsboro, Anti-Lynching, Criminal Justice, Peonage, Labor, and Segregation and Discrimination Complaints and Responses

MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
The Modern Language Association's comprehensive index of scholarly journals and series in literature, languages, and folklore. Covers 1926 to the present.
Literary Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time-frames.
Literature Online (LION) This link opens in a new window
A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 175 full text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Provides comprehensive access to newspapers, broadcast transcripts, wire services, and blogs from around the globe as well as extensive legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, and business information on over 80 million U.S. and international companies.
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing and full text coverage of the most important English-language legal information, including access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, books, book reviews and more.This citation-only index provides links to full text via other CofC resources when available.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window JSTOR offers archival journal collections in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Political Science Complete This link opens in a new window Contains full text for hundreds of journals, plus indexing and abstracts for thousands of titles. Worldwide focus.
Project Muse - Premium Collection This link opens in a new window MUSE offers complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies in the humanities and social science.

Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Kanopy has one of the largest collections of streaming films in the world with 50,000+ films from thousands of leading producers such as Criterion Collection, New Day Films, California Newsreel, Kino Lorber, PBS, First Run Features, Media Education Foundation, Documentary Educational Resources, etc. These films are all genres - from documentaries to movies and training videos - and touch on every topic imaginable.

Points of View Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
Worlds most comprehensive international collection of dissertations and theses, spanning from 1743 to the present day.
Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window
Covers the core disciplines in Womens Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Coverage spans from 1972 and earlier to present.
U.S. History (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to thousands of historical (primary) documents, as well as reference titles and full-text journals. Covers themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.

GenderWatch This link opens in a new window Full text database of important archival material dating back to 1970. Includes the evolution of the women's movement, men's studies, the transgendered community, and the changes in gender roles over the years.
New York Times (Historical: 1851-2013) This link opens in a new window This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage: 1851-2013

The Obsidian Collection Archives
The Obsidian Collection Archives preserve and share images from Black Legacy newspapers and Black photographers for future generations. As African American people moved about the country, the documentation of their lives was recorded on very few mediums.
Jet
Weekly source of African American news and entertainment
Ebony
EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
The Crisis
The Crisis is the official publication of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). It features African American commentary on current affairs. In the past, it has also featured African American literature prominently, and was one of the major magazines of the Harlem Renaissance.