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Finding Primary Sources in the Library Catalog & Databases

African Americans / Reconstruction and Jim Crow

African Americans / Reconstruction and Jim Crow

  • 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.

Screenshot of Database search screen - Search for Booker T. Washington as Author in the database, African Americans and Jim Crow: Repression and Protest, 1883-1922