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Articles in Databases
- America: History & Life This link opens in a new windowIndexes and abstracts the world's scholarly literature in the history of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present.
- Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIndex and abstracts of sociology, anthropology, criminology, demography, education law and penology, race relations, social psychology and urban studies. 1963-
- SocINDEX w/Full Text This link opens in a new windowThe most comprehensive and highest-quality sociology research database. The database features millions of records with subject headings from a sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. Coverage includes history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, humanities and social sciences. Some current issues are available now.
Archival Resources
- Photographs from the Dorothy Davis CaseSee the pictures that were submitted as evidence in the 1951 case brought by the NAACP on behalf of the Moton High School students.
- Barbara Johns leads Prince Edward County student walk-outFrom SNCC's digital archives, a history of the student strike that ulitmately led to the Davis court case and the closing of the Prince Edward County schools. Check out the oral histories on the right-hand side.
- Edward H. Peeples Prince Edward County (Va.) collection from VCU Digital LibrariesDr, Peeples was a VCU professor who documented the situation of the Prince Edward County schools in the early 1960s. All images are digitized - click the "Browse" button at the top.
- The Moton MuseumMoton High School is now a National Historic Landmark and a museum, with links to resources about its history.
- Phyllis Padow-Sederbaum Collection from Queens College Civil Rights ArchiveWhile at Queens College, Padow worked with the Student Help Project to provide free tutoring services to under-served schoolchildren. She travelled to Prince Edward County in the summer of 1963 to tutor children. Also search "Student Help Project."