Selected Bibliography of Social Justice Libraries, Archives,
Collections, and Other Resources
The following list of social justice-related libraries, archives, collections, and other resources is not meant
to be an exhaustive resource; rather, it is meant to serve as a starting point for finding information about
these issues.
General (Social Change / Justice / Protest)
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American Friends Service Committee Austin Office Social Justice Library
http://tools.afsc.org/austin/austin_search.php
American Friends Service Committee Video and Film Lending Library
http://tools.afsc.org/bigcat/video-film.htm
Civil Rights and Social Justice Collections, Briscoe Center for American History, The University of
Texas at Austin
http://www.cah.utexas.edu/collections/civil_rights.php
Connexions Online
http://www.connexions.org/home.htm
Information for Social Change (Journal)
http://libr.org/isc/
Labadie Collection, University of Michigan Library
http://www.lib.umich.edu/labadie-collection
Provisions Library
http://www.provisionslibrary.org/
Social Protest Collection, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf938nb3z5
Southern California Library
http://www.socallib.org/
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/
Civil Rights / Human Rights
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Aadel Collection, Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
http://www.iranhrdc.org/httpdocs/English/aadel.htm
Archive for Human Rights, Duke University Libraries
http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/human-rights/index.html
Asian Human Rights Commission Video Collection
http://material.ahrchk.net/video/
The Civil Rights Collection of the Nashville Public Library
http://www.library.nashville.org/civilrights/home.html
Civil Rights Digital Library, University of Georgia Libraries
http://crdl.usg.edu/
Danish Centre for International Studies and Human Rights Library
http://www.humanrights.dk/Library
Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement Collection, University of California, Berkeley
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http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm/index.html
Documentation Centre, Rights & Democracy
http://www.dd-rd.ca/site/documentation/index.php?lang=en
European Court of Human Rights Search Portal
http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int/tkp197/search.asp?skin=hudoc-en
Henry Lee Moon Library & Civil Rights Archives, National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People
http://www.naacp.org/about/history/library/
Human Rights Library, University of Minnesota
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/
“Voices of Civil Rights” (Online Exhibition), Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civilrights/
Genocide / Holocaust
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Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota
http://www.chgs.umn.edu/
“Darfur: Continuing Conflict in Sudan” (Web Dossier), African Studies Centre Leiden Library
http://www.ascleiden.nl/library/webdossiers/Darfur2.aspx
Genocide Memorial Collection, Glendale Central Library
http://library.ci.glendale.ca.us/genocide_memorial_collection.asp
Holocaust and Genocide Collection, Penn State Harrisburg Library
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/harrisburg/asc/hgc.html
Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education Center, Brookdale Community College
http://www.holocaustbcc.org/index.html
Rose Library, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University
http://www.clarku.edu/departments/holocaust/about/roselibrary.cfm
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org/
University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Institute
http://college.usc.edu/vhi/
Labor
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George Meany Memorial Archives, National Labor College
http://www.nlc.edu/archives/home.html
Holt Labor Library
http://www.holtlaborlibrary.org/
Industrial Relations Library, Princeton University
http://libguides.princeton.edu/industrel
Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Library, University of California, Berkeley
http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/library/
Labor Archives and Research Center, San Francisco State University
http://www.library.sfsu.edu/about/depts/larc.php
Martin P. Catherwood Library (including the Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation & Archives), Cornell University
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/
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The Samuel Gompers Papers, University of Maryland
http://www.history.umd.edu/Gompers/index.htm
Southern Labor Archives, Georgia State University Library
http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/pages/area.asp?ldID=105&guideID=510
The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/
Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University
http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/
Working Women, 1800-1930, Harvard University Library
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/
Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgenders
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Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/institutions/Gay,+Lesbian,+Bisexual,+Transgender+Historical+Society
Gerber/Hart Library
http://www.gerberhart.org/
Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University Library
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/HSC/
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives
http://mazerlesbianarchives.org/
Lesbian Herstory Archives
http://www.lesbianherstoryarchives.org/
The National Archive of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender History, The Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, & Transgender Community Center
http://www.gaycenter.org/community/archive
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
http://www.onearchives.org/
Stonewall Library & Archives
http://www.stonewall-library.org/
Social Work & Welfare
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The Social Work Archives, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College
http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/socialworkarchives.html
Social Welfare History Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries
http://special.lib.umn.edu/swha/
Women
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Alice Marshall Women’s History Collection, Penn State Harrisburg Library
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/harrisburg/asc/amwhc.html
Christine Dunlap Farnham Archives, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women,
Brown University
http://www.pembrokecenter.org/archives/
Documents from the Women’s Liberation Movement, Duke University Libraries
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/
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The Emma Goldman Papers Project, University of California, Berkeley
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/
Feminist Library
http://feministlibrary.co.uk/
Hilles Feminist Library, Sewall-Belmont House & Museum
http://www.sewallbelmont.org/mainpages/collections_library.html
Jewish Women’s Archive
http://jwa.org/
National Archives for Black Women’s History, Mary McLeod Bethune Council House, National
Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/mamc/historyculture/mamc_nabwh.htm
Sally Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, Duke University Libraries
http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/bingham/
Schlesinger Library, Harvard University
http://www.radcliffe.edu/schlesinger_library.aspx
Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College
http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/index.html
Women’s Papers and Other Collections of Value to Women’s Studies, Vassar College Libraries
http://specialcollections.vassar.edu/research-tools/womens_papers.html