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Black Freedom Struggle in the United States This link opens in a new window

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Select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history.

This website contains approximately 1,600 documents focused on six different phases of Black Freedom: Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860); The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877); Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932); The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945); The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975); The Contemporary Era (1976-2000).

The documents presented here represent a selection of primary sources available in several ProQuest databases. The databases represented in this website include American Periodicals, Black Abolitionist Papers, ProQuest History Vault, ProQuest Congressional, Supreme Court Insight and Alexander Street’s Black Thought and Culture.

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Computer Skills Center @ Learning Express This link opens in a new window

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Basic computer skills including internet, Microsoft Office, operating systems, and graphics.

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Credo Reference This link opens in a new window

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Online reference library that provides access to a growing selection of reference books.

Online reference library that provides access to a growing selection of reference books. Includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations, and a range of subject-specific titles from art to accountancy and literature to law. Credo Reference generates a network of cross-references that provide an easy-to-follow trail to related information contained anywhere within the library.

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Feature Films for Education This link opens in a new window

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For best results, use the Chrome browser. Feature films, both current and hard-to-find titles.

With hundreds of full-length feature films, this high-interest collection focuses on both current and hard-to-find titles, including literary adaptations, blockbusters, classics, environmental titles, foreign films, social issues, animation studies, Academy Award® winners, and more.

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window

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More than 15,000 news, business and legal sources.

NexisUni, Nexis Uni, Lexis Nexis, LexisNexis

NexisUni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches, and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents. Full text of the New York Times and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is included.

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Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window

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A complete one-stop source for information on social issues.

Draws on the social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to Web sites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

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Sage Knowledge This link opens in a new window

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Reference books including social science, green issues, and criminal justice.

Sage Knowledge provides an interface to search the following:

21st Century Criminology: A Reference Handbook by J. Mitchell Miller (2009)
Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage by Carl A. Zimring & William L. Rathje (2012)
Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment by David Levinson (2002)
Green Business: An A-to-Z Guide by Nevin Cohen & Paul Robbins (2011)
Green Cities: An A-to-Z Guide by Nevin Cohen & Paul Robbins(2011)
Green Consumerism: An A-to-Z Guide by Juliana Mansvelt & Paul Robbins (2011)
Green Energy: An A-to-Z Guide by Dustin Mulvaney & Paul Robbins (2011)
Green Food: An A-to-Z Guide by Dustin Mulvaney & Paul Robbins (2011)
Green Politics: An A-to-Z Guide by Dustin Mulvaney & Paul Robbins (2011)
Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice by Marilyn D. McShane & Frank P. Williams III (2003)
Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives by David S. Clark (2007)
Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement by Larry E. Sullivan, Marie Simonetti Rosen, Dorthy Moses Schulz & M. R. Haberfeld (2004)
Encyclopedia of Murder and Violent Crime by Eric Hickey(2003)
Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities by Mary Bosworth (2005)
Encyclopedia of Race and Crime by Helen Taylor Greene & Shaun L. Gabbidon (2009)
The SAGE Glossary of the Social and Behavioral Sciences by Larry E. Sullivan (2009)
Encyclopedia of Terrorism, First Edition by Harvey W. Kushner (2003)
Encyclopedia of White-Collar & Corporate Crime by Lawrence M. Salinger, Ph.D. (2005)

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