Welcome! This guide will serve as a starting point for Shippensburg University students wishing to conduct research on various aspects of the national debate over civil rights.You will find sources that introduce you to your topic and keep you up-to-date with links to news articles, research websites, journal articles, and research reports concerning civil rights.
Main Term(s): civil rights
Related Terms: race discrimination, affirmative action programs, voting rights, discrimination
Broader Terms: human rights
Narrower Terms: women's rights, gay rights, African Americans - civil rights, civil rights movements
Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement by 
Human and Civil Rights: Essential Primary Sources by 
Encyclopedia of Race and Racism by 
Profiling and Criminal Justice in America: A Reference Handbook (2nd ed.) by 
Civil Rights in American Law, History, and Politics by 
The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights by 
Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism in Post-Racial America by 
Civil Rights Advocacy on Behalf of the Poor by 
What We Have Done: An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement by 
Rallying for Immigrant Rights: The Fight for Inclusion in 21st Century America by 
Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City by Kirk-Please check "Project 21" under Advocacy, Not Favoring; you may have different idea on where this belongs. Ditto on Scholars Network on Black Masculinity in Research. TS
Kirk-Not too sure about the Fraternal Order of Police one, either; I looked around for awhile on it and I'm not sure it belongs at all.
A number of important national newspapers have topic or issue sections of their website that bring together all the paper's articles on particular topics. The leading example of this is "Times Topics" from the New York Times. Each topic guide/section has a search tool that lets you refine your search.
Unfortunately, these sections are often not easy to browse or locate on the newspaper websites. Use the "High Quality Web Source Finder" search box above to search for your topic. Then choose the Newspaper Topic Guides tab to look for these in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune. If you should hit a pay wall when browsing these newspapers, simply search for articles from any of these three papers using the ProQuest Newstand library database.
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is the public policy research division of Congress. It issues detailed research reports on a very wide range of issues. CRS doesn't maintain its own website, but its reports are available through several organizations and libraries.
