This guide was created for Professor Monk-Payton and the students enrolled in FITV 3648 - Television, Race, and Civil Rights. It contains links to recommended books, databases, and archives. Start your research by downloading the pdf handout. To schedule a consultation with your course librarian, email jsuda@fordham.edu. Use the Ask a Librarian chat service for 24/7 research assistance.
What about Google?
There may be good resources available via the free web, but it is your responsibility to look critically at the sources you choose. If you cannot write a citation for a source, then you may not want to choose it for your paper. You should be prepared to defend the authority, accuracy, timeliness, and appropriate context of the sources you choose. The Evaluating Websites handout is provided to help you assess the sources you select.
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More than 10 premier historical titles dating back to 1893. Day-to-day news coverage of leading issues and events throughout U.S. history as well as local and regional politics, society, arts, culture, business, and sports. New content coming soon - Kansas City Call (1919-2010)
Full text of the L.A. Times for 1881-1996.
Full text of The New York Times for 1851-2017.
Note: The digitized Index allows users to search on and view terms exactly as they appeared in the New York Times print index and newspaper articles.
Full text of The Wall Street Journal for 1889-2003.
Full text of the Washington Post for 1877-2004.
The NYS Historic Newspapers project provides free online access to a wide range of newspapers chosen to reflect New York's unique history. Created and administered by the Northern New York Library Network in partnership with the Empire State Library Network.
Hundreds of newspapers published from U.S. prisons combined into one collection that will represent penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions.
PROQUEST BLACK STUDIES (ENDS 4/23/22)
This is a TRIAL database and is only available until 4/23/2022. Primary and secondary sources, including historical Black newspapers, archival documents and collections, key government materials, videos, writings by major Black intellectuals and leaders, scholarly journals, and essays by top scholars. Includes timelines, topic pages on notable people, ten historical newspapers and over 120 archival collections and 160 full text periodicals. These collections will cover the period from the colonial era through to the 21st Century. Alongside the NAACP Papers are records of three civil rights organizations: Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and other records of importance.
Full text of ethnic, minority, and native presses providing researchers with diverse perspectives from 1959-present (varies by publication). Ethnicities include: African American/Caribbean/African; Arab/Middle Eastern; Asian/Pacific Islander; European/Eastern European; Hispanic; Jewish; Native People; and Multi-Ethnic People.
Most recent U.S. news content, as well as archives back into the 1980s from newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. Includes access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal and a large collection of local and regional newspapers on the ProQuest platform. INCLUDES FORMER BLACK NEWSPAPERS.
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