Archive Title:
Library of Congress – Civil Rights History Project
Link to Archive or Database:
https://www.loc.gov/collections/civil-rights-history-project/about-this-collection/
About:
On May 12, 2009, the U. S. Congress authorized a national initiative by passing The Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-19). The law directed the Library of Congress (LOC) and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) to conduct a national survey of existing oral history collections with relevance to the Civil Rights movement to obtain justice, freedom and equality for African Americans and to record and make widely accessible new interviews with people who participated in the struggle.
This site guides researchers to collections in several Library divisions that specifically focus on the movement as well as the broader topic of African American history and culture. The Civil Rights History Project Collection (AFC 2010/039) contains more than 1200 items consisting of born-digital video files, digitized videocassettes, digital photographs and full-text transcripts for all interviews.
– taken from Library of Congress – Civil Rights History Project website
Time Period:
1950–Present
Content Type(s):
Interviews; Audio recordings; Film; Photos
