Running Head: BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTS 1 BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTS 6 Student Name Course Name and Number Instructor’s Name Date of Submission A primary source gives first-hand evidence of an object, event, person or work of art. The primary sources include documents that are legal, eyewitness accounts, results experiments, pieces of creative writing interviews and newsgroups. One of the historical events in the history of America is the black civil rights movements. Many primary sources give the evidence of the black civil right movements in the United States of America. They are as follow; The KZSU Project South Interviews This collection H transcripts and audio recordings of meetings and interviews with Civil Rights workers in the South. They were recorded by several students from Stanford who are affiliated with the campus radio station KZSU. It was during the summer of 1965 when the project was sponsored by the Institute of American History at Stanford. The collection has a lot of information that are related black history. They include; interviews of members of the Congress of Racial Equality, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee. We also have the transcripts of formal and informal remarks of persons working with smaller blacks associated with the civil rights movement and transcribed action tapes of civil rights workers canvassing voters, conducting freedom schools. Mississippi Freedom Summer Project 1964: Digital Collection These collections have the records of the history of 1964's "Freedom Summer," when volunteers came together to be trained to register black voters in Mississippi. Three volunteers were subsequently killed, bringing about attention to racial issues and serving as a catalyst for change. The collection includes several documents, including reports from the FBI and articles from Ohio about the black civil rights movement at the time. Negro Traveler's Green Book, 1937-1964 This was a travel guide series published from 1936 to 1964 by Victor H. Green. The author intended to provide African American motorists and the tourists with the information necessary to board, dine, and sightsee comfortably and safely given it were an era of segregation. The New York Public Library presents digital editions of the 1937-1964 green books. The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock 'n' Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia This primary source has the scholarly book from University of California Press. It contains images, video, and news clippings documenting how American Bandstand, the first national television program directed at teens, discriminated against young black individuals, and how black youths protested this discrimination. "Voices from the Southern Civil Rights Movement" Thi ...

1. Running Head: BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTS
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BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTS
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Student Name
Course Name and Number
Instructor’s Name
Date of Submission
A primary source gives first-hand evidence of an object, event,
person or work of art. The primary sources include documents
that are legal, eyewitness accounts, results experiments, pieces
of creative writing interviews and newsgroups. One of the
historical events in the history of America is the black civil
rights movements. Many primary sources give the evidence of
the black civil right movements in the United States of America.
They are as follow;
The KZSU Project South Interviews
This collection H transcripts and audio recordings of meetings
and interviews with Civil Rights workers in the South. They
were recorded by several students from Stanford who are

2. affiliated with the campus radio station KZSU. It was during the
summer of 1965 when the project was sponsored by the Institute
of American History at Stanford. The collection has a lot of
information that are related black history. They include;
interviews of members of the Congress of Racial Equality, the
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and the Student Non-
violent Coordinating Committee. We also have the transcripts of
formal and informal remarks of persons working with smaller
blacks associated with the civil rights movement and
transcribed action tapes of civil rights workers canvassing
voters, conducting freedom schools.
Mississippi Freedom Summer Project 1964: Digital Collection
These collections have the records of the history of 1964's
"Freedom Summer," when volunteers came together to be
trained to register black voters in Mississippi. Three volunteers
were subsequently killed, bringing about attention to racial
issues and serving as a catalyst for change. The collection
includes several documents, including reports from the FBI and
articles from Ohio about the black civil rights movement at the
time.
Negro Traveler's Green Book, 1937-1964
This was a travel guide series published from 1936 to 1964 by
Victor H. Green. The author intended to provide African
American motorists and the tourists with the information
necessary to board, dine, and sightsee comfortably and safely
given it were an era of segregation. The New York Public
Library presents digital editions of the 1937-1964 green books.
The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock 'n' Roll,
and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia
This primary source has the scholarly book from University of
California Press. It contains images, video, and news clippings
documenting how American Bandstand, the first national
television program directed at teens, discriminated against
young black individuals, and how black youths protested this
discrimination.
"Voices from the Southern Civil Rights Movement"

3. This primary source presents educational and noncommercial
radio programs from the 1950s and 1960s that offer historic
testimonies through the interviews, speeches, and on-the-spot
news reports that come from various movement participants,
that include those who are well-known and unknown. National
leaders, students, academics, writers, and even a comedian and
a documentary filmmaker often relate riveting stories that
document a range of individual and group experiences.
Edward H. Peeples Prince Edward County (Va.) Public Schools
This primary source explores the history of school segregation
issues of the 1950s and 1960s. During the 1950s Prince Edward
County would become the focus of the public school's
desegregation issue in Virginia. A group of African American
students at Robert Russa Morton High School walked out to
protest squalid conditions at the segregated site on 23 April.
Four years earlier the school had been ruled inadequately. A
meeting was organized with the student leader where they
agreed to court representation if only they defended themselves
well at the court. The students' challenge to Virginia's law
finally became one of five similar complaints heard in the
Supreme Court case thus the nine Justices ruled unanimously in
favor of the students.
The Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and
Southern Activists
This is a multi-layered compilation of documents, sound
recordings, and visual images whose components include copies
of records of the Montgomery Improvements Association as
well as long hours of oral history of the famous civil liberties
lawyer Clifford Durr, complement major holdings in other
American archives. Some components of the Rabin Collection
are unique. They include updated filmed interview of Stokely
Carmichael in Montgomery, 450 black-and-white photographs
made by the Subversive Investigative unit as well as the
Identification Division of the Alabama Department of Public
Safety in the course of demonstrations, boycotts, and marches in
several Alabama cities. There are also surveillance tapes

4. preserving the speeches made at an anniversary meeting of the
MIA in 1963, at the conclusion of the Selma-to-Montgomery
and in Bessemer and Birmingham, Alabama, in the course of the
Poor People's Campaign of 1968. Great people such as Martin
Luther King and Ralph Abernathy are among many front leaders
of the black civil rights movement heard on these tapes.
Freedom Summer 1964 Digital Collection
This primary source of information has more than 24,000 pages
from manuscripts, including official records of groups such as
the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Furthermore,
the Congress of Racial Equality; the personal papers of
movement leaders and activists like as Amzie Moore and,
letters, and diaries of northern college students who went South
to volunteer for the summer (Munday,2014)

5. References
Munday, J. (2014). Using primary sources to produce a
microhistory of translation and translators: theoretical and
methodological concerns. The Translator, 20(1), 64-80.
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