Research Guides: Finding Primary Sources in History: African Americans / Reconstruction and Jim Crow

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African Americans and Reconstruction: Hope and Struggle, 1865-1883 [Readex] This link opens in a new window
Contains over a thousand fully searchable printed works, books, pamphlets, and speeches from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of Jim Crow.
African Americans and Jim Crow: Repression and Protest, 1883-1922 [Readex] This link opens in a new window
Contains over a thousand fully searchable books, pamphlets, and speeches from the beginning of Jim Crow to post-World War I that provide insights into African American culture and life during this period of segregation and disenfranchisement.

For both databases, try a keyword search on a person, event or document in history.
You can also go to Advanced Search and try an Author search on your person.
You can keep your results list in Best (relevance) order or sort by Oldest to Newest or Newest to Oldest.