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Library databases contain reliable information that is generally not available elsewhere on the web. Access to databases from off-campus requires login using your student ID number.

You will find databases covering History and related topics linked from the SCC Library homepage. For the topic of Civil Rights the following databases will be particularly useful:

Use the Library Catalog to look for books on specific subjects. Here are some SUBJECT searches to try:

•  African Americans - Segregation   
•  Indians of North America – Civil Rights  
•  Segregation in education 
•  Southern states – Race relations 
•  United States – Race relations 
•  United States – Social conditions
• Civil Rights
• Civil rights movements
• Chicano movement
• Nineteen sixties
• Racism
• Racism – Psychological aspects
• African American women – Social conditions

If you want to browse the shelves, American History books can be found in the 970s and Civil Rights books in the 323s.

Books that check out are on the 2nd floor of the library.

Reference books are on the 1st floor. These include specialized encyclopedias and historical atlases. Reference books are often good starting points for research. Here are some examples: 

Civil Rights in the United States

R 323.0973 CIVIL R 2000

ABC-CLIO Companion to the 1960s Counterculture in America

R 973.923 HAMILTO

Chronology of American History

R 973.02 FREDRIK

Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-First Century 

R 973.0496 ENCYCLO 2009

Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia

R 920.7208 BLACK 1993

 Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas

R 973.0468 OXFORD 2005

You'll also find reference books in the library databases like:

• U.S. History in Context 
• Credo Reference
• Gale Virtual Reference Library