Off-Campus Access

The Fifties: Race & Gender This page lists some additional specialized resources for finding information dealing with race and gender issues of the 1950s.

Background Sources

• Black women in America
  Suzzallo Reference - E185.86 .B542 2005
• Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history
  Suzzallo Reference, Undergraduate Reference - E185 .E54 1996
• Encyclopedia of women's history in America
  Suzzallo Reference, Undergraduate Reference - HQ1410 .C85 1996
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
  Suzzallo Reference -- E184.S75 O97 2005
• Reader's companion to U.S. women's history
  Suzzallo Reference, Undergraduate Reference - HQ1410 .R43 1998

Articles

• Chicago Defender and Black Studies Center - only available from 2/6/2006-3/4/2006
  Digitized version of the Chicago Defender that currently only covers the weekend editions from 1935-1975. Also includes Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience and International Index to Black Periodicals. [Password: Defender]
• Contemporary Women's Issues
  Full-text collection of feminist-oriented publications.
• Ethnic NewsWatch
  Full-text collection of ethnic newspapers with selective coverage dating back to 1960.
• HAPI Online
  Hispanic American Periodical Index covers articles published on Latin American studies and Latinos in the United States. Also see Chicano Index.
• The Kaiser index to black resources, 1948-1986
  Good for locating primary sources, articles published in Black magazines, during the 1950s.
  Suzzallo Reference - Z1361.N39 K34 1992

Magazines for Browsing

• Crisis, 1944-1996 (NAACP)
          Suzzallo Periodicals - E185.5 .C92
• Ebony
          1945-1957: Microform & Newspapers - A10439
          1957-2004: Suzzallo Periodicals - 051EB
• Jet, 1951-1971, 1977-2000
          Microform & Newspapers - A10580

Other

• Papers of the NAACP
  383 reel microfilm collection Microform & Newspapers - A8473
• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1919-1959
  97 reel microfilm collection Microform & Newspapers - A8464

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