Websites & Government Documents - History of American Integration - Oakland Campus

General Primary Source Sites

Civil Rights Digital Library
From the University of Georgia, the CRDL includes a digital video archive and links to primary source material available elsewhere on the web
Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
Web site providing access to publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights published between 1960 and 2020.
Oral Histories of the American South: Civil Rights
Features recordings and transcripts of oral histories as told by those involved in the civil rights movement in North Carolina.

Historic Pittsburgh This link opens in a new window
Historic Pittsburgh is a digital collection that provides an opportunity to explore and research the history of Pittsburgh and the surrounding Western Pennsylvania area on the Internet. It is a joint project of the University of Pittsburgh and the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. Most of the materials in Historic Pittsburgh's Full-Text Collection were published or produced before the early 1920s and are out of print or not readily accessible.

African American Odyssey
Hosted by the Library of Congress, American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

Brown v. Board at Fifty
This exhibition commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of this landmark judicial case.
Pittsburgh School Desegregation Project Records
Finding aid for collection in the Pitt Archives. On September 28, 1978, Carletta Washington et al. filed a class-action suit against the School District of Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Board of Education, and the Superintendent of Schools requiring the defendants to develop a local plan for system-wide desegregation of city schools.
Race Desegregation Assistance Program Records
Finding aid for collection in the Pitt Archives. These records document the activities and programs of the Race Desegregation Assistance Program and Center at the University of Pittsburgh between the years 1973 and 1987.

Urban Institute: Exposing Housing Discrimination
Fair Housing Trends Annual Reports
From the National Fair Housing Alliance, a consortium of more than 220 private, non-profit fair housing organizations, state and local civil rights agencies.

Hearing on Integration in Public Education Programs, Part 1
From 1962, considers legislation to provide desegregation for public schools and to withhold Federal aid from schools not complying with integration of students by race.
The Fair Housing Act : A Legal Overview
Congressional Research Service Report on the 1968 Fair Housing Act and subsequent amendments.
Fair Housing Act of 1967 Hearings
Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs
Protecting the American Dream: A Look at the Fair Housing Act
From 2000, a hearing before the subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties

Congressional (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
The world's most comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information from Congressional Information Services. Includes access to many full-text Congressional publications, bills, laws, regulations, committee information, information about current members of Congress, and much more.

Includes U.S. Bills and Resolutions: 1789 - 2022