Research Guides: HUST 103: Lives and Times: Brown Girl Dreaming

Print encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of American Social History
Call Number: HN 57 .E53

Skim the table of contents at the beginning of Volume 1 for ideas about articles that may be useful to you. There are a LOT of different articles that are relevant to this text.
Encyclopedia of Racism in the United States
Call Number: E 184 .A1 E773

Also contains primary sources in vol. 3.
Black Women in America
Call Number: E 185.86 .B54

Mostly biographical information about specific women, but there are also entries on topics like hair, girl groups, gospel music, etc.
Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights
Call Number: E 185.61 .E56 1992

Publication Date: 1992

Entries on people and events important to the civil rights struggle, and court cases relevant to the movement for civil rights in the U.S.

Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History
Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
Publication Date: 2013
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present
American Decades
Both primary and secondary sources, arranged by decades (e.g., 1930s, 1960s, etc.).
The Nation in Turmoil: Civil Rights and the Vietnam War, 1960-1973
Publication Date: 1997

Presents primary source materials covering the civil rights movement, the Great Society, and the Vietnam war and anti-war sentiment.