LibGuides: Racial Justice in America: Search Databases

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These databases are available to current students, faculty, and staff at the St. Louis Community College. Remote access is available through our proxy server and may require log-in credentials. Each database contains hundreds or thousands of articles on current and controversial issues as well as historical coverage of events related to racial unrest in America. To locate articles, type in keywords, concepts, or individual topics such as racial unrest; race and conflict; racial profiling, Trayvon Martin, Detroit riots, etc.

Search Current News & Controversial Topics Databases

Access World News This link opens in a new window
Contemporary newspapers, newswires, and news magazines at the local, regional, national and international level.
Five full text databases are included. NewsBank Academic Library Collection provides contemporary articles from national and international newspapers, wire services and magazines from 1986 forward. Newsbank Retrospective covers 1970-1991 and focuses on contemporary American History. MOREnet offered Full-Text Newspapers includes local, regional and national newspapers in one searchable database. The Kansas City Star covers 1991-Current and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch covers 1988-Current.

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CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week.
Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports.

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Issues & Controversies This link opens in a new window
Covers topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture.
Issues and Controversies covers more than 800 topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture. It is updated weekly, with links to a 12-year back-file.

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Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
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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Search Black Studies Databases

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

Search History Databases

American History Online This link opens in a new window
American political, military, social, and cultural history.
American History Online spans political, military, social, and cultural history and features "Learning Centers" that bring forward specially selected entries from many Facts On File titles. It includes biographies; events and topics; more than 2,150 primary source documents; timelines; overview essays outlining time periods; nearly 3,200 images depicting key figures, places, and events; original maps, graphs, and tables; a spotlight providing an in-depth look at a topic such as the Lewis and Clark Expedition or immigration; and an "Editor’s Selection of the Month" highlighting an event tied to each month.

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Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
The New York Times and St. Louis Post-Dispatch can be searched individually or simultaneously.
Full text images of newspapers in PDF format. Newspapers may be searched separately or simultaneously. Includes New York Times (1851-to the present) and St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1874-1922).

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