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Check out our new library resources:

Black Freedom Struggle in the United States: Website focused on Black Freedom, featuring approximately 1600 primary source documents selected from ProQuest databases related to critical people and events in African American history. 

Black Lives Matter: A freely available Black Lives Matter learning resource, featuring a rich collection of handpicked articles from the digital archives of over 50 different publications.  Free access limited to single articles.

 

 

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