References to articles from over 10,000 full text journals on a wide range of academic areas. Included is a searchable collection of images plus videos from the Associated Press from 1930 to the present.
Full-text database with scholarly journal articles and other sources on criminology, corrections administration, criminal law, criminal justice, law enforcement, addition, family law, industrial security, and rehabilitation, 1981 to present.
References to articles for subjects relating to education, family, gerontology, health services, housing, mental health services, nursing, social work, and substance abuse, 1987 to present.
Features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790 with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types.
The NAACP registers hundreds of thousands of Americans to vote and equip vulnerable communities with the resources to fight back against attacks on fundamental voting rights through their nationwide campaign, This is My Vote.
Since 1965, the Lawyers’ Committee has been at the forefront of the legal struggle to advance and protect the right to vote and to ensure that the right is afforded equally to all. Their Voting Rights Project has had a tremendous positive impact on communities of color, low-income communities, youth, people with disabilities, and other traditionally disenfranchised populations.
Established in 1986, The Sentencing Project works for a fair and effective U.S. criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing policy, addressing unjust racial disparities and practices, and advocating for alternatives to incarceration. Some sources out of date.
Voting Rights Act for Today is a project of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. This site is dedicated to building bipartisan support in Congress for legislation that will restore and strengthen the Voting Rights Act.
Sponsored by the NYU School of Law, this web portal features history, news clips, publications, opinion editorials, and blog posts about the Voting Rights Act.
The ACLU works to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Their website links to resources on policy affecting criminal punishment, disability rights, free speech, human rights, immigrants rights, mass incarceration, racial justice, religious liberty, and women's rights.
Great web resource focused on national course cases related to Children’s Rights, Economic Justice, Immigrant Justice, LGBT Rights, and Mass Incarceration.
The umbrella federation for America's unions, the AFL-CIO advocates workers rights, fair wages, affordable health care, retirement security, quality education for our children, job safety and civil and workplace rights.
This collection features award-winning documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture in the United States, many from producers California Newsreel and Filmmakers Library. At present, the collection includes 145 videos, totaling 141 hours, going back to 1969. Many of the videos also have transcriptions.