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  • Radical America
    This site makes available the first 14 years of the magazine Radical America, a publication launched by college students in Madison, Wisconsin in 1967. The journal was affiliated with the organization Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The site was created and is maintained by Brown University. All files are in PDF format.
  • American Radicalism 
    Primary source pamphlets, periodicals, posters, and ephemera from Michigan State University
     Content: American Indian Movement; Asian America; Birth Control; Black Panthers; Hollywood Ten; I.W.W.; Ku Klux Klan; Rosenberg Case; Sacco - Vanzetti; Scottsboro Boys; Students For a Democratic Society; The Masses; Wounded Knee
  • Sixties Project: Primary Document Archive
    Includes documents from Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Blank Panther Party, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and several similar groups.
  • We Raise Our Voices
    Small collection of items documenting Boston's African American, Latino, feminist, and LGBT community histories.

Social movements

  • Black Panthers 
    Primary source pamphlets, periodicals, posters, and ephemera from the Radicalism Collection at Michigan State University
  • Baltimore 68: Riots and Rebirth
    Offers oral histories, newspaper clippings, local government documents and photographs related to Baltimore's riots following the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Civil Rights History Project
    Oral histories and interviews... with relevance to the Civil Rights movement to obtain justice, freedom and equality for African Americans and to record new interviews with people who participated in the struggle, over a five year period beginning in 2010.
  • African American Odyssey : The Civil Rights Era (Library of Congress)
  • Black History: Chronological topics (NARA)
  • University of Mississippi Digital Archives:
    • Civil Rights
      Includes brochures, campaign posters and other documents relating to the civil rights movement, specifically to the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). Also included are oral histories from MFDP leaders Fannie Lou Hamer, Aaron Henry, and Victoria Gray-Adams.
    • LGBTQ+
      Includes brochures and publications from Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer+ (LGBTQ+) organizations around the state of Mississippi. Also included are seven issues of ‘Lesbian Front,’ the first lesbian periodical published in Mississippi (1975-1977)

Radicalism

  • Marxist Internet Archive
    Multilingual library that includes Marxist, communist, socialist, and anarchist writers, such as Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Che Guevara, Mikhail Bakunin, and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, as well as that of writers of related ideologies, and even unrelated ones (for instance, Sun Tzu and Adam Smith). It contains over 53,000 documents from over 600 authors in 61 languages.
  • I.W.W
    Primary source pamphlets, periodicals, posters, and ephemera from the Radicalism Collection at Michigan State University
  • Ku Klux Klan
    Primary source pamphlets, periodicals, posters, and ephemera from the Radicalism Collection at Michigan State University
  • Sacco - Vanzetti
    Primary source pamphlets, periodicals, posters, and ephemera from the Radicalism Collection at Michigan State University

Women's history

  • Crusade for the Vote
    National Women's History Museum - offers primary sources, background readings, timelines and more on women's suffrage in America
  • Discovering American Women's History Online
    This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to interviews with women engineers from the 1970s.
  • Jewish Women's Archive
    The Jewish Women’s Archive is a national organization dedicated to collecting and promoting the extraordinary stories of Jewish women. JWA explores the past as a framework for understanding the issues important to women today; inspires young people with remarkable role models; and uses Jewish women’s stories to excite people to see themselves as agents of change.
  • Women Working, 1800-1930
    Access to digitized books, manuscripts and images from the collections of Harvard University Libraries and Museums on women in the U.S. economy from 1870-1930. Searchable, or browsable by topic, individual, dates and events, or organization