ProQuest, an information content and technology company, has created a website of primary documents on the Black freedom struggle in the United States. No subscription is required to view the colleciton. Visitors will find historical newspaper articles, pamphlets, diaries, and correspondence from specific time periods in history marked by the opposition African Americans have faced on the road to freedom. 

Highlighted subjects:

• Slavery and abolitionist movement, 1790-1860
• Civil War and Reconstruction era, 1861-1877
• Jim Crow era to the Great Depression, 1878-1932
• New Deal and World War II, 1933-1945
• Civil Rights and Black Power movements, 1946-1975
• Contemporary era, 1976-2000s

Some key featured documents are: the Narrative of Sojourner Truth, the Emancipation Proclamation, W.E.B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk, and the Civil Rights Act of 1960.

This resource supports students from middle and high school to college as well as independent researchers.