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U.S. History: The Civil Rights Movement: Reference Sources

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Reference Databases

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Subject Specific Encyclopedias

American Studies Association. Encyclopedia of American Studies. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 2016. Credo eBook

Appiah, Kwame Anthony and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., ed. Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 1999. DT 14 .A37435 1999

Finkelman, Paul, and Peter Wallenstein, eds. The Encyclopedia of American Political History. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2001. E 183 .E48 2001

Layman, Richard, and Victor Bondi, ed. American Decades. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994-2001. E 169.12 .A419 and GVRL eBook

Lowry, Charles and John Marszalek, ed. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2003. E 185.61 .E54 2003.

Northrup, Cynthia Clark, ed.. The American Economy A Historical Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, 2011 Credo eBook

Salzman, Jack, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West, eds. Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. New York: MacMillan Library Reference, 1996. E 185 .E54 1996

Smith, Jessica Carney and Linda T. Wynne. Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience. Visible Ink Press, 2009. Credo eBook

Starr-LeBeau, Gretchen D., Jessica Kross, and Robert J. Allison, eds. American Eras. Detroit: Gale Research, 1997. E 169.1 .A471979