The Thurgood Marshall Law Library remembers the struggles for civil rights and racial justice by pointing to related resources in our collections. The Maryland Carey Law community has remote access to the Law Library’s special collections, research guides, subscription databases, online journals, and ebooks on civil rights and racial justice, many of which are accessible with your UMID and password.
Collections and Research Guides:
Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights (1957, 1959-2010) at the Thurgood Marshall Law Library is an online digital collection of select government publications from the United States Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR). Access is provided by title, subject, date of publication and Superintendent of Documents number.
The African Americans in the Law Collection seeks to document the development and growth of the African American legal community in Maryland from 1877 to date. This collection at the Thurgood Marshall Law Library includes: the Legal Papers of Dallas Nicholas and William Gosnell, NAACP and William H. Hastie Collections, the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper via ProQuest and on microfilm, the Baltimore activist Lena Lee Collection, the personal and professional papers of faculty member Larry Gibson in Crafting Victories: Campaign Materials from the Larry Gibson Collection, the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Collection, the Constance Baker Motley Collection, Donald Gaines Murray and the Integration of the University of Maryland School of Law, Hairspray in Context: Race, Rock 'n Roll and Baltimore, and Urban Civil Unrest of the 1960's.
Databases:
The Maryland Carey Law community can access the following subscription databases documenting the civil rights movement from the links below, and in the A-Z Databases on the Law Library's homepage with your UMID and password.
The ProQuest Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle database features records of NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, CORE, and federal records on the Black Freedom Struggle. Access ProQuest History Vault's coverage of Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle to study well-known and unheralded events in the 20th Century from the perspective of the men, women, and children who led the civil rights movement in American history.
The Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988) newspaper offers full page and article images with searchable full text. The Afro-American provides news for racial equality and economic advancement of Black Americans. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
The HeinOnline Civil Rights and Social Justice database contains publications from the Commission on Civil Rights, legislative histories on landmark legislation, briefs from relevant U.S. Supreme Court cases, and more, this database covers civil rights in the United States as their legal protections and definitions are expanded to cover more and more Americans.
The HeinOnline Slavery and the World: History, Culture, and Law database examines the role that slavery has had on shaping the laws and institutions of the United States and other English-speaking countries. Browse by subject in all titles.
The JSTOR subject guide on African American Studies points to online journals and ebooks, including the Race, Gender & Class journal (1995-2017) and the Journal of African American History (2002-2017).
The New York Times provides Resources for Teaching About Race and Racism With The New York Times, a curated collection of over 75 lesson plans, writing prompts, short films and graphs relating to racism and racial justice. Register to access following instructions in this Guide to Accessing the New York Times.
eBooks:
The Maryland Carey Law community has remote access to a number of ebooks on through our Discovery Service Catalog on our homepage. A Discovery Service Catalog search returns 200,000+ ebook results related to civil rights and racial justice (requires a login with your UMID and password). Limit the results by "ebook" source type on the left.
Select ebook titles accessible from our Discovery Service catalog related to civil rights and social justice include:
West Study Aids provide access to ebooks on key legal topics related to civil rights and social justice, including:
Google Books provides a preview of select ebooks on civil rights and social justice, including:
Online Journals:
Many of the online journals in our collection can be found in the Online Journal Finder on the Law Library's homepage. A search in the Online Journal Finder on the term race returned 48 journal titles, including: University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender, and Class, and the Columbia Journal of Race and Law.
Just Ask Us:
If you would like help accessing these resources or finding additional materials on civil rights and social justice, just ask us. Law Library staff are available by email at law-library@law.umaryland.edu or on chat reference 9am-6pm Monday to Friday to answer your questions.
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