Steps in the Research Process

• STEP 1: Formulate your question
• STEP 2: Get background information (see REFERENCE Box below)
• STEP 3: Refine your search topic
• STEP 4: Consider your resource options
• STEP 5: Select and use the appropriate tool, Books (discoverE), databases, etc. [see also RESEARCH TOOLS tab)
• STEP 6: Locate your materials
• STEP 7: Analyze your materials
• STEP 8: Organize and write
• STEP 9: Cite your work/Compose your bibliography

CQ Political Reference Suite

Credo Reference Unlimited

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Oxford Reference Online

CIVIL RIGHTS DIGITAL LIBRARY site available via the Digital Library of Georgia

Reference Books:

The Harvard guide to African-American history/ Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 1945- ; Leon F. Litwack ; Darlene Clark Hine ; Randall K. Burkett ; Henry Louis Gates/ 2001  REFERENCE E185 .H326 2001

Bradley, David, and Shelley Fisher Fishkin. The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America. Armonk, N.Y.: Sharpe Reference, 1998. REFERENCE E185.61 .E544 1998 V.1-3

Lowery, Charles D., John F. Marszalek, and Thomas Adams Upchurch. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Twenty-First Century. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2003 REFERENCE E185.61 .E54 2003 V.1-2

Luker, Ralph. Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1997. REFERENCE E185.61 .L84 1997

Martin, Waldo E., and Patricia Sullivan. Civil Rights in the United States. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2000. REFERENCE E184 .A1 C47 2000 V.1-2

Murray, Paul T. The Civil Rights Movement: References and Resources. New York: G.K. Hall, 1993. REFERENCE Z1361 .N39 M93 1993

Strickland, Arvarh E., and Robert E. Weems. The African American Experience: An Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001. STACKS E184.65 .A37 2001

From the Books, Movies, Music tab in discoverE:

• Type in your keywords
• When you get some results, use "Refine My Results" on the left to narrow your search by author, item type, date and more

Subject Headings

African Americans -- Civil rights

African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Sources

Civil rights demonstrations

Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources

United States -- Race relations

Congress of Racial Equality

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)

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