ETH STD 41AC: A Comparative Study of Protest Movements Since the Sixties

Primary sources can be found in a variety of library tools:

• Catalogs:  OskiCat and Melvyl
• Online book and text collections
• Primary Source databases provided by the Library
      includes databases for finding newspaper articles, such as Historical Newspapers (ProQuest) or magazine articles, such as Reader's Guide
• Vetted sites on the web:
  
  • Library of Congress
  • Online Archive of California or Calisphere
  • History Matters

For specific search strategies, see the Library's Guide to Finding Historical Primary Sources

Learn more about your topic in advance:

• names of relevant individuals and organizations
• dates of events
• places
• what terminology was used at the time by participants and observers? (ex:  negro or colored instead of african american)

Use the bibliographies of secondary sources and reference sources to find citations to specific primary sources; search OskiCat to locate them on campus, or ask for assistance at the Library.

Examples of techniques for finding primary sources:

Search OskiCat for primary sources using keywords and adding terms that denote primary sources, such as:

-correspondence
-sources
-diaries
-personal narratives
-interviews
-speeches
-documents
-archives
-newspapers

Examples:

black panther* newspapers
vietnam war correspondence
malcolm x speeches

Search by individuals or organizations as authors:

(author)  savio, mario
(author)  united farm workers of america

Search by keywords and limit by date of publication

feminis* or women's liberation

year of publication:  1960 to 1970  

• Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives
  Documents the key events, trends, and movements in 1960s America. Includes 70,000 pages of letters, diaries, and oral histories; more than 30,000 pages of posters, broadsides, pamphlets, advertisements, and rare audio and video materials. Enhanced by dozens of scholarly document projects, featuring annotated primary-source content that is analyzed and contextualized through interpretive essays by historians.
  
• Calisphere
  Gateway to digitized images from the libraries and museums of 10 University of California campuses and more than 100 cultural heritage organizations in California. Includes more than 150,000 photographs, diaries, documents, oral histories and other resources. Serves as a single point of access for more than 300 UC-created websites and collections.
  
• DDRS (Declassified Documents Reference System)
  Over 75,000 documents and almost 500,000 pages of materials declassified via the Freedom of Information Act and regular declassification requests, making broad-based and highly targeted investigation of government documents possible. Nearly every major foreign and domestic event of these years is covered.
  
• Digital National Security Archive (DNSA)
  Indexes over 35,000 declassified documents spanning fifty years of US national security policy. Also includes a chronology, glossary of names, events, special terms, and a bibliography for each collection developed around a specific event, controversy, or policy decision.
  
• Readers' Guide Retrospective
  Covers more than 500 leading American magazines and journals from 1890 to 1982.
  

A few selected examples of primary sources on the Internet

American Social History Online
Provides access to 175 digitized library collections related to U.S. social history.

Amistad Digital Resource - Civil Rights Era (scroll down to Archives) 

Civil Rights Digital Library

Discovering American Women's History Online

Browse by Time Period

Eyes on the Prize:  Primary Sources

From the web site for the PBS series.

Free Speech Movement Digital Archive

From UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library