Gale Virtual Reference Library [CSUF only]

Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (2006)
Reference KF4747.5 .E53 2006 v. 1-3

Civil Rights in the United States [encyclopedia] [2 volumes] (2000)
REFERENCE  E184.A1 C47 2000 Vol. 1-2 CATALOG RECORD

Black Americans (annual) (1999)
REFERENCE  E185.5 .B512 1999 CATALOG RECORD 

Civil Liberties in America: A Reference Handbook (2004)
5th FLOOR SOUTH KF4749 .W35 2004 CATALOG RECORD

Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present (1992)
6th FLOOR SOUTH  E185.61 .E54 1992 CATALOG RECORD

Encyclopedia of American Indian Civil Rights (1997)
REFERENCE   KF8210.C5 E53 1997 CATALOG RECORD 

Illustrated Great Decisions of the Supreme Court (2006)
REFERENCE  KF 4549 .M334 2006 CATALOG RECORD

Encyclopedia of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement (2000) 
REFERENCE  E184.M5 M458 2000 CATALOG RECORD 

Freedom Days: 365 Inspired Moments in Civil Rights History (1998)
REFERENCE  E185.61 .A232 1998 CATALOG RECORD

Country-by-country information: Freedom in the World (2003)
REFERENCE JC571 .F66 2003 CATALOG RECORD

Great American Court Cases [civil rights cases] [4 volumes] (1999)
REFERENCE  KF385.A4 G68 1999 Vol. 1-4 CATALOG RECORD

Historical Statistics of Black America (1995)
REFERENCE  E185 .H543 1995 Vol. 1-2 CATALOG RECORD

International Encyclopedia of Human Rights: Freedoms, Abuses, and Remedies (2000) 
REFERENCE  JC571 .M3243 2000 CATALOG RECORD

Statistical Handbook on Racial Groups in the United States (2000)
REFERENCE  E184.A1 H417 2000 CATALOG RECORD

West's Encyclopedia of American Law (1998)
Note: See Volume 3 pages 1-13. Also see INDEX in Volume 12. Also see Annual Yearbook.
REFERENCE  KF154 .W47 1998 Vol. 1-12 CATALOG RECORD

• Civil Rights Act of 1954: 40th Anniversary
• Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights (primary source materials) [Thurgood Marshall Law Library]
• Ten-Year Check-Up: Have Federal Agencies Responded to Civil Rights Recommendations? (2003)
• Clinton Report: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination [CERD] (2002)
• New Paradigms for a New Century: Rethinking Civil Rights Enforcement (2000) PDF-29 pages
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• Amid the Fall, Dreaming of Eden: Du Bois, King, Malcolm X, and Emancipatory Composition (1999) CATALOG RECORD
• Back to School on Civil Rights [electronic resource]: Advancing the Federal Commitment to Leave No Child Behind [education] (2001) CATALOG RECORD & INTERNET LINK
• Birmingham, Alabama, 1956-1963: The Black Struggle for Civil Rights (1989) CATALOG RECORD
• Blessed are the Peacemakers: Martin Luther King, Jr., Eight White Religious Leaders, and the "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (2001) CATALOG RECORD
• Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Passage of the Law that Ended Racial Segregation (1997) CATALOG RECORD
• Civil Rights Complaints in U.S. District Courts, 2000
• Civil Rights Complaints in U.S. District Courts, 1990-98
• Civil Rights Division Activities and Programs (2002) [overview of the Civil Rights Office]
• Civil Rights in the United States (1994) CATALOG RECORD
• Civil Rights Movement: An Eyewitness History (1993) CATALOG RECORD
• Getting Uncle Sam to Enforce Your Civil Rights (1996) CATALOG RECORD
• I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr. (2000) CATALOG RECORD
• Indicators of Equal Employment Opportunity--Status and Trends (2000) CATALOG RECORD
• Legal Aspects of the Civil Rights Movement (1965) CATALOG RECORD
• The Longest Debate: A Legislative History of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (1985) CATALOG RECORD
• The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement (1996) CATALOG RECORD
• Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Foundations of Nonviolence (1984) CATALOG RECORD
• To End All Segregation: The Politics of the Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (1990) CATALOG RECORD
• Twenty Years After Brown (1977) CATALOG RECORD
• Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights 1959 1961 1963 1990
• Revisiting Who Is Guarding the Guardians: A Report on Police Practices and Civil Rights in America (2000) CATALOG RECORD & INTERNET LINK

American Decades: Primary Sources
     REFERENCE  E169.1 .A471977 2004 Vol. 7 (1960-1969) CATALOG RECORD
     Note: In Volume 7, see INDEX.

Clinton Report: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination [CERD] (2002)

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Articles of note:   

"Assessing Claims that Federalism and States Are Anti-Civil Rights" (January 7, 2003) [FINDLAW]

"Road to the Promised Land: The Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968." Humanities, Nov/Dec 1994, Vol. 15, Issue 6, pages 24-26.
Print: DOCS/US  NF 3.11:15/6 page 24

"The Enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1875," Prologue, Winter 1974, Vol. 6 No. 4 pages 225-251.
Print: DOCS/US  AE 1.111:6/4 page 225

• U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

• U.S. Department of Education: Office for Civil Rights

• U.S. Department of Justice: Civil Rights Division

• American Civil Rights Institute

• Civil Rights Era [Library of Congress-American Memory]

• Civil Rights: An Overview [Cornell LII]

• FindLaw: Legal Subjects: Civil Rights

• Race-Based Charges FY 1992 - present [EEOC]

• Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement

• I Have A Dream [text of speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., August 28, 1963].

Civil Rights Act of 1964—TEXT

• Public Law 88-352 / 78 STAT. 241:  United States Statutes-At-Large, Vol. 78
       Print:  Reference KF50 .U5 Vol. 78 page 241
       Online: Civil Rights Act of 1964 (text)
• Public Law 88-352: U.S. Code Congressional & Administrative News 1964
       Reference KF63 .U5X 1964 Vol. 1 page 287
• Civil Rights Act of 1964: Text, Analysis, Legislative History (1964) CATALOG RECORD
• Civil Rights Act of 1964: Equal Employment Opportunity (Citation and Summary)

Civil Rights Act of 1964—LEGISLATIVE HISTORY     top

• U.S. Code Congressional & Administrative News
       Reference KF63 .U5X 1964 Vol. 2 pages 2355-2519
• The Longest Debate: A Legislative History of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (1985) CATALOG RECORD
• Civil Rights Act of 1964: Text, Analysis, Legislative History (1964) CATALOG RECORD

U.S. Code & Additional Laws     top

• United States Code Annotated, Title 42, Chapter 21 (sections 1985+)
  Print: REFERENCE KF62 W48x Vol. 42 Pt. 5b page 5
  Online: Cornell's Legal Information Institute: U.S. Code, Title 42, Chapter 21: Civil Rights
  Online—CSUF only: LexisNexis: Legal Research Federal Code More Options Search for: 42 usc sec 1981 [cite]
• Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, 1964, 1968: And Voting Rights Act of 1965 [texts of laws] (1969) CATALOG RECORD
• Civil Rights Act of 1964 With Explanation: Public Law 88-352 (1964) CATALOG RECORD
• Civil Rights Commission Amendments Act of 1994 (1994) CATALOG RECORD
• Civil Rights: An Overview [Cornell LII]
• Compilation of Selected Civil Rights Laws (as amended through the 105th Congress, first session) [texts of laws] (1998) CATALOG RECORD
• California: Civil Rights Law & Legislation