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Reference Books

African Americans and political participation : a reference handbook
Call Number: E185 .A2538 2003
Civil Liberties in America
Call Number: KF4749 .W35 2004
Civil rights in the United States
Call Number: E184.A1 C47 2000
Dictionary of Latino civil rights history
Call Number: E184.S75 R69 2006
Disabilities : insights from across fields and around the world
Call Number: HV1568 .D54 2009
East Asian Americans and political participation : a reference handbook
Call Number: E184.A75 C49 2005
Encyclopedia of civil liberties in America
Call Number: JC599.U5 E53 2005
Gay and lesbian rights : a reference handbook
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 N48 2009
Gay rights on trial
Call Number: KF4754.5 .W35 2002
Greenwood encyclopedia of African American civil rights
Call Number: E185.61 .E54 2003
The Greenwood encyclopedia of women's issues worldwide
Call Number: HQ1115 .G74 2003
[1] Asia and Oceania -- [2] Central and South America -- [3] Europe -- [4] The Middle East and North Africa -- [5] North America and the Caribbean -- [6] Sub-Saharan Africa.
Human rights in the United States : a dictionary and documents
Call Number: KF4747.5 .C37 2000
Latino Americans and political participation : a reference handbook
Call Number: E184.S75 L3557 2004
Women and political participation : a reference handbook
Call Number: HQ1236.5.U6 B875 2004
Women in early America : struggle, survival, and freedom in a new world
Call Number: HQ1416 .M395 2004
Women's rights
Call Number: HQ1236 .W65265 2003
Women's rights (global)
Call Number: HQ1236 .T46 2007

Databases

Academic Search Complete [EBSCO]
A multi-disciplinary database of full-text access to approximately 6,600 journals and magazines and nearly 6,000 full-text peer-reviewed journals.

Topics including anthropology, ethnic and multicultural studies, geography, law, religion and philosophy, and women’s studies.
America: History and Life [EBSCO]
An index of over 1,800 journals from 1895 to the present on the history and life of the United States and Canada. Includes citations and links to books and media reviews.
Ethnic Newswatch [ProQuest]
A database of over 2.5 million articles and more than 340 publications from ethnic and minority presses.

Includes full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals intended to provide researchers with access to “essential, often overlooked perspectives." Also includes historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989. Includes unique community publications as well as top scholarly journals focused on a wide variety of ethnic or racial groups as well as ethnic studies.
GenderWatch [ProQuest]
A database covering historical and current perspectives on the evolution of gender roles and their effects on all people.
HeinOnline
A database of historical and government documents, including complete coverage of 2,600 law-related periodicals.

Includes the Congressional Record, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports back to 1754, treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. presidents, and other topics.

Web Sites

Leadership Conference
The nation's premier civil and human rights coalition
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

Librarian Subject Team

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