LibGuides: Primary Sources: Civil Rights in America: Laws

Notable Legislation - Civil Rights

Off Campus Access

Off campus access information

U.S. Statutes at Large Library via HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
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Subjects: Government & Public AffairsVendor: HeinSubscriber: CNUFull-text access to the U.S. Statutes at Large.

Online Sources: Civil Rights Law

HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
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Subscriber: CNUAn online image-based collection of law and law-related materials. It includes law journals, the CFR, English Reports, Federal Register, Treaties and Agreements, Legislative history, a US Presidential Library and more.

Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
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A site at the Thurgood Marshall Law Library which provides access to the historical record of this Federal Agency. Documents can be accessed by title, date, subject, or sudoc number. Coverage begins with the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Additional information may also be found at U.S. Commission on Civil Rights web page (http://www.usccr.gov/).
The Supreme Court - Expanding Civil Rights
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primary sources from PBS related to the Supreme Court and civil rights
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
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Provides access to various publications and legislation.
U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
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"The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, created in 1957 by the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1957, works to uphold the civil and constitutional rights of all Americans, particularly some of the most vulnerable members of our society. The Division enforces federal statutes prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, disability, religion, familial status and national origin."

Book Sources: Laws - Civil Rights

A selection of books/e-books available in Trible Library.
Click the title for location and availability information.

Off campus access instructions (for e-books)

Attacks on the American Press: a Documentary and Reference Guide by Jessica Roberts; Adam Maksl
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9781440872570
The Conscience of the Court: Selected Opinions of Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. On Freedom and Equality by Stephen L. Sepinuck and Mary Pat Treuthart
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Call Number: Online - EBSCO
ISBN: 9780809322343
Creating the Bill of Rights: The Documentary Record from the First Federal Congress by Helen E. Veit et al.
Call Number: KF4749 .C74 1991
ISBN: 0801841003
Equal Protection and the African American Constitutional experience: A Documentary History by Robert P. Green, Jr.
Call Number: KF4756 .A3 2000
ISBN: 0313303509
Jim Crow Laws by Leslie V. Tischauser
Call Number: KF4757 .T57 2012
ISBN: 0313386080
"Primary source documents, including Supreme Court decisions and W.E.B DuBois’s 1947 "Statement on the Denial of Human Rights to Minorities in the Case of Citizens of Negro Descent in the United States of America and an Appeal to the United Nations for Redress"" Description from ABCClio
The Longest Debate: A Legislative History of the 1964 Civil Rights Act by Charles Whalen & Barbara Whalen.
Call Number: KF4756.A315 A168 1985
ISBN: 0932020348
Religion on Trial by James John Jurinski
Call Number: KF4865 .J87 2004
ISBN: 1851094911
a handbook with cases, laws, and documents
Religious Freedom in America: a Reference Handbook by Michael C. LeMay and James John Jurinski
Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9781440851056
See the Data & Documents section for primary sources.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 by Laurie Collier Hillstrom
Call Number: JK1924 .H55 2009
ISBN: 0780810481
"Features include a narrative overview, biographies, primary source documents, chronology, glossary, bibliography, and index"

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