Digital archive covering foreign perspectives of American racial issues in the mid-20th century. It contains translations of thousands of news articles, radio transcripts, and television transcripts from around the world, chosen by the U.S. Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS). Also offers rare insight into race relations in Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia. No U.S. papers or broadcasts are included in this database.
Formed in 1968, the American Indian Movement (AIM) expanded from its roots in Minnesota and broadened its political agenda to include a searching analysis of the nature of social injustice in America. The FBI files in this database provide detailed information on the evolution of AIM as an organization of social protest and the development of Native American radicalism.
A wide range of collections documenting the American workers and labor unions in the 20th century, with a special emphasis on the interaction between workers and the U.S. federal government.
Provides 74 document projects. Each document project poses an interpretive question and provides a collection of documents that address the question. Includes more than 2,200 documents, approx. 800 images, & almost 800 links to other websites. Also includes a dictionary of social movements and organizations; a chronology of U.S. women's history; and teaching tools.