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Course Guide

Key Resources:

* Library Catalog : Search the catalog for books, journals, microfilms, and government documents.

Reference Books (a good place to start research)

African Americans in Congress: a documentary history: REF JK1021 .A47 2008
Encyclopedia of Black Studies: REF E185.E554 2005
Black Americans: A Statistical Sourcebook: REF E185.B55 2000
Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights: REF E185.61.E544
Encyclopedia of African American Politics: REF E185.S58155 2003
Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics (2 vol): REF E184.A1 E574 2000

* Interlibrary Loan (To have books and articles sent to you)

ILLiad: Users must first register as an ODU patron, then select the type of item you wish to request, and fill in as much information as you know about the requested item.

* Microfilm Collections (small sample)

• Blacks in the U.S. Armed Forces: Basic Documents 1639-1973: Documentary history of participation in the military tracing the official military policy towards black personnel and the social and political forces influencing this policy.
  
  
• FBI Files on Black Extremist Organizations: Covert action programs against domestic groups documenting FBI programs to "disrupt and neutralize" target groups.
  
  
• FBI Files on Malcolm X.
  
  
• FBI Files on the NAACP.
  
  
• NAACP Papers: Voting Rights Commission, Discrimination in the Armed Forces, Race Relations.

* Databases and Indexes (to find journal articles)

www.lib.odu.edu => Databases => Choose from the subject list or choose from the alphabetical list.

Academic Search Complete
Provides a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary database with full-text, peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.

Alternative Press Index
Indexes left wing periodicals covering cultural, political and social change.

America History and Life
Indexes journal articles on the history of the United States (and Canada)

CQ Political Reference Suite
Contains Vital Statistics of Politics, biographies, Supreme Court Yearbook, CQ Researcher, and other great sources.

JSTOR
Fulltext database of journals from 1880-2003 covering a wide range of topics.

LexisNexis Academic
Law reviews and court decisions on civil rights cases.

LexisNexis Congressional
Congressional publications, bills, and congressional profiles.

PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)
indexes articles, books, and research reports.

Political Science
Fulltext journals on political science and policy studies.

Project Muse
Fulltext of scholarly journals 1995- present.

U.S. Serial Set
Contains the digital version of all the Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, providing primary source material on all aspects of American history. Currently covers 1817-1964. Additional years are digitized monthly, and upon completion in 2009 will cover 1817-1980.

* Primary Sources Available on the Web (small sample)

African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
Collections from the Library of Congress

African-American Members of the United States Congress
1870-2008 from Congressional Research Service.

Black Population in the United States
Census population surveys and detailed reports.

Brown v. Board of Education Digital Archive
Sponsored by the University of Michigan Library, contains documents and images which chronicle events surrounding the case.

Desegregation of the Armed Forces
President Truman's decision to desegregate the armed forces includes 421 documents from 1938-1953.

Documenting the American South Texts, images, and audio files in Southern history from the colonial period through the 20th c.

FBI FOIA: Mississippi Burning
900 page summary of the investigation of the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers.

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
Research and analysis concerning African Americans.

Making of America
Digital library of sources in American Social History.

Voices of the Civil Rights
Personal sccounts in photos and oral histories of people who were affected by and worked for civil rights.

Citation Style Guides

APA Style Guide from the University of Wisconsin Madison
MLA Style Guide from Purdue University
Chicago/Turabian Style Guide from University of Wisconsin Madison

If you need further assistance, please use the reference consultation form, or ask a librarian.

Updated 2/16/2009 jft