Pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, reports and in-depth oral histories, revealing the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and African American culture and identity.

The HistoryMakers is a non-profit educational institution committed to recording, preserving, and disseminating video oral history interviews with African Americans. Interviews are with well-known and unsung African Americans from diverse backgrounds, including several Vassar College alumni. Interviewing began in 1993 and continue to the present.

Explores the period of social, political and cultural change between 1950 and 1975.

Primary source materials, including letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, and diaries, from ProQuest's University Publications of America (UPA) Collection in a digital format. Includes Black freedom struggle in the 20th century; Struggle for women's rights, organizational records, 1880-1990; and Women's studies manuscript collections from the Schlesinger Library.

Speeches, reports, surveys and analyses produced by Fisk University's Race Relations Department staff and Institute participants from 1943-1970, including Charles S. Johnson, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall.

Explores protest movements, revolutions, and civil wars from the 18th century through the present. Includes video, printed materials (personal papers, organizations, government documents, journals, reports, monographs, and speeches), and images.