Finding Articles
You can use many of the techniques for finding books to locate articles in the SJSU King Library OneSearch catalog!
You can use many of the techniques for finding books to locate articles in the SJSU King Library OneSearch catalog!
Searching for Articles on the Civil Rights Movement Using King Library's OneSearch
Searching for Articles on the Civil Rights Movement Using King Library's OneSearch
Just as you would search for books, you can use the OneSearch bar to locate relevant articles for your research projects.
- You can perform a broad search simply by typing keywords into the OneSearch bar at the top of the SJSU King Library Page.
- You can perform an advanced search where you can narrow your searches by material, date, or through Boolean search.
- Or, you can search individual databases by visiting King Library's A-Z Database Guide. Here you can search for specific databases, or by discipline to find just the information you need.
- All of these options allow you to search all of the article databases held by SJSU!
Recommended Article Databases for this Course
Recommended Article Databases for this Course
African American Studies encompasses a wide variety of disciplines and fields. (For example: History, Psychology, Political Science, Sociology, ethnography, etc.) This provides you with a lot of options for databases from a wide variety of disciplines which hold articles related to the civil rights movement! Here a a few excellent places to begin searching for articles.
- African American Experience: This database contains articles written by experts on topics dealing with the historical and cultural experiences of black Americans. This resource also provides access to some primary source material which can give students an in-depth look into this important period in history. Good search terms to use when searching this database are: "civil rights movement"; "Jim Crow"; "student activists". Two useful articles for this time period from this database are:
- Claybrook, M. Jr. (2019). Black Student Alliances and the Black Power Movement. In The American Mosaic: The African American Experience. Retrieved from here.
- Thornburg, M. (2019). Struggles for Freedom, 1957–1960. In The American Mosaic: The African American Experience. Retrieved from here.
- American History and Life with Fulltext: Provides an excellent source for full text reference material on American and Canadian history (with limited indexing for articles from 1868 to the present). This database focuses generally on American History, however, and there are many resources within this database that focus solely on the civil rights movement and the social and cultural factors which gave rise to these events. Good search terms for this database are "American civil rights movement"; "blacks"; "Southern states"; "Segregation"; and "race relations". A few useful articles from this database include:
- Arnesen, E. (2017). Long, Hot Summers: Rethinking 1960s Urban Unrest Half a Century Later. Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, 14(4), 12–16.
- Biggs, M., & Andrews, K. T. (2015). Protest Campaigns and Movement Success: Desegregating the U.S. South in the Early 1960s. American Sociological Review, 80(2), 416–443.
- Academic Search Complete: This is another peer-reviewed database which covers a wide variety of disciplines and topics, mainly in the humanities. Students have access to wide variety of academic journals from which to explore multidisciplinary aspects of the civil rights movement. Like American History and Life with Fulltext, this is an EBSCO database, so many of the same search terms which can can be used for that database will work well with this one. Some good search terms to try are "american civil rights movement"; "desegregation"; and "student activis*". Two good articles to review from this database are :
- Bloom, J. (2015). The Dynamics of Opportunity and Insurgent Practice: How Black Anti-colonialists Compelled Truman to Advocate Civil Rights. American Sociological Review, 80(2), 391–415.
- Nimtz, A. H. (2016). Violence and/or Nonviolence in the Success of the Civil Rights Movement: The Malcolm X–Martin Luther King, Jr. Nexus. New Political Science, 38(1), 1–22.
Recommended Journals for this course:
Recommended Journals for this course:
Specific Journals can also be a rich resource for locating articles. Searching through these discipline specific journals can provide a great deal of information on this era and its effects on current issues.
- Journal of Black Studies. (1970-Present).
- Journal of African American Studies. (1997, March 1 through 2018, December 1, 2018).