Federal legislation pertaining to African Americans 1792-1994;
U.S. Supreme Court decisions, including dissenting opinions, on race 1806-1994;
Nearly 900 biographical and reference articles;
Manuscript materials that cover, among other events: selected NAACP campaigns; the work of the "Black Cabinet" during the New Deal; the 1963 March on Washington; and the 1965 Voting Rights Act
Autobiographies of Frederick Douglas, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Forman, and Walter White.
A collection of scholarly articles from academic journals and anthologies.
To search on CIS/UPA History Universe: Access to African American Studies open your browser to the UIC Library's Home Page (http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib) and click on the "Index to Databases" icon. Then select Subject Guide to Selected Article Databases. After that select Social and Behavioral Sciences. On this screen you will find CIS/UPA History Universe: Access to African American Studies. The direct URL is http://cisweb.lexis-nexis.com/histuniv/.
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