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Finding Primary Sources

Learn to distinguish between primary and secondary sources; learn strategies for finding primary sources.

1960s - Civil Rights Resources

  • 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention
  • Antiwar
  • Bay of Pigs
  • Birmingham
  • The Beach Boys
  • The Beatles
  • Betty Friedan
  • Black Panther Party
  • Civil Rights Movement
  • Cuban Missle Crisis
  • Draft
  • Dwight Eisenhower
  • Freedom Riders
  • Free Speech Movement
  • Gay Liberation
  • Gerald Ford
  • Hippies
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Little Rock
  • Lyndon Johnson
  • Malcolm X
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Montgomery
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  • Nikita Khrushchev
  • Pacifism
  • Richard Nixon
  • Robert Kennedy
  • Rock and Roll
  • The Rolling Stones
  • Rosa Parks
  • Segregation
  • Silent Majority
  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
  • Students for Democratic Society
  • Student protest
  • Vietnam
  • Women's Liberation
  • Woodstock Festival