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ENGL 057 - Critical Connections in Reading and Writing - Landenberger

This page has resources which will help you with your research assignment on James McBride's memoir The Color of Water.

Recommended Library Databases

Gale Biography

Biography In Context

Biographies of influential people worldwide and from many time periods. Includes encyclopedia articles, magazine articles, and some multimedia.

Credo Reference

Credo Reference

Articles from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference sources from all subject areas. Includes images, audio pronunciation files, maps, and data tables.

EBSCOhost

MasterFILE Premier

MasterFILE Premier provides full-text for over 1,800 general interest, business, consumer health, general science, and multicultural periodicals. Also includes reference books, biographies, and images.

Gale Ebooks

Gale Ebooks

Collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries and topical content covering a variety of subject areas.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences Archive Collection

Contains digitized back issues of academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Also includes the image collections formerly part of ARTstor.

Salem History

Salem History

Searchable collection of primary historical documents, commentary, biographies and timelines.

Other Library Databases

Library Research Guides

This research guide is divided up into different historical periods; ones relevant to your assignment would include Economic Depression, World War II, Civil Rights, and Black Power. Each tab has links to eBooks from the HACC Library collection as well as links to videos and external websites which have been evaluated by library faculty.

Online Reference Works

These reference works include information regarding U.S. history, civil rights, and other associated topics.

These encyclopedias should be helpful with the topics related to Jewish religion, traditions, and culture.

Streaming Video Resources

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement

Eyes on the Prize tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today.

Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power

In the mid-1960s, Lowndes County, Alabama had zero registered Black voters despite an 80% Black population. Through first-person accounts and searing archival footage, this documentary chronicles the citizens' movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers led by Stokely Carmichael who risked their lives for Black voting rights.

Making Black America: Through the Grapevine

This four-hour series, hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chronicles the vast social networks and organizations created by and for Black people – beyond the reach of the "White gaze." Gates takes viewers into an extraordinary world that showcases Black people's ability to collectively prosper, defy white supremacy, and define Blackness in ways that transformed America itself.

King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis

Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, King: A Filmed Record is a monumental documentary that follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional activist to world-renowned leader of the civil rights movement.

NOTE: Students and staff are required to create a Kanopy user account using their HACC email address in order to access this database.

Image Sources

If you can't find images related to your topic in JSTOR, these online collections are a great alternative. Still having problems finding what you need? Reach out to your class librarian!