Primary Sources: The 1960s: Personal Sources

"The papers of the author, educator, and political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) are one of the principal sources for the study of modern intellectual life. Located in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress, they constitute a large and diverse collection reflecting a complex career. With over 25,000 items (about 75,000 digital images), the papers contain correspondence, articles, lectures, speeches, book manuscripts, transcripts of Adolf Eichmann's trial proceedings, notes, and printed matter pertaining to Arendt's writings and academic career. The entire collection has been digitized and is available to researchers in reading rooms at the Library of Congress, the New School University in New York City, and the Hannah Arendt Center at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. Parts of the collection and the finding aid are available for public access on the Internet. "

"The Carl D. Duncan and Patricia Whiting Collection includes all the letters written between Carl Duncan and Patricia Whiting from 1964-1966, photographs documenting Patricia Whiting’s life and family, political ephemera related to Whiting’s political career in Oregon, and her poetry."

"The Historical Diaries digital collection brings a sampling of these firsthand accounts from the Merrill-Cazier Library’s Special Collections and Archives to your computer screen. More than just lists of daily reflections by Utah residents, these volumes also contain biographies and correspondence related to the individuals who wrote them. Some are typescript copies while others are the original narratives handwritten by the author. Each contributes to understanding 150+ years of Utah experience."

""Oral Histories of the American South" is a three-year project to select, digitize and make available 500 oral history interviews gathered by the Southern Oral History Program (SOHP). These 500 are being selected from a collection of over 4,000 interviews, housed at the Southern Historical Collection, that cover a range of fascinating topics. This project is made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. " Part of the Documenting the American South Collection at UNC Chapel Hill

"... seeks to make this massive movement local and understandable by reducing it into its smallest parts—the people that participated, in small and large ways."
Part of the Documenting the American South Collection

"... produced by the Virginia Civil Rights Movement Video Initiative, a non-profit organization incorporated in 2002 to produce videotaped oral histories of leaders of the Civil Rights movement in Virginia. "