Sisters in the Struggle: Kentucky Women in the Civil Rights Era, 1920s-1970s: Suggested UK Databases

Now featuring 345 newspapers published in 36 states; full-text searchable.

A landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history. In addition to the most familiar works, Black Thought and Culture presents a great deal of previously inaccessible material, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trial transcripts. The ideas of over 1,000 authors present an evolving and complex view of what it is to be black in America.

From the collections at the Library of Congress and other institutions.

Search scanned copies of American newspapers, 1860-1922. Free to all.

This digital collection explores American social, cultural, and popular history, providing access to primary source material from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History, Duke University and The New York Public Library. It is made up of fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes.

Searchable archive of full-text journals.

Gateway to rare and unique digitized collections housed in Kentucky archives.

Avenues for educators to access primary resources regarding the history of Kentucky.

Coverage from 1851, excluding the most recent three years.

University of Kentucky Libraries
Short biographies of notable African Americans with Kentucky roots or ties, organized by profession or subject. Also includes entries for events and locations. Includes links to related resources. Free to all.

Brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies to document the multiplicity of women's reform movements.

Taken from the archival collection of Duke University. Focuses primarily on the radical origins of the movement, the second wave of feminism, in the 1960s and 1970s.