Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records consists of digitized primary documents drawn from several archives and licensed by Gitenstein Library from ProQuest. It is but one module residing within the larger ProQuest History Vault collection. (Our library does not license the other modules, but see
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States, ProQuest's complementary open access website that contains a selection of about 1,600 documents from all modules in the "Black Freedom" series.) The twentieth century federal government records—the module to which our library has access—spans the period from 1901 to 1991. Sub-collections are titled African Americans in the Military; Black Workers in the Era of the Great Migration, 1916-1929; Centers of the Southern Struggle: FBI Files on Montgomery, Albany, St. Augustine, Selma, and Memphis; Civil Rights During the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, and Bush Administrations; Civil Rights and the Federal Government (various topics); East St. Louis Riot of 1917; FBI Files on Black Extremist Organizations; Federal Surveillance of Afro-Americans (1917-1925); Martin Luther King, Jr. FBI File; New Deal Agencies and Black America; Peonage Files of the U.S. Department of Justice, 1901-1945; President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights; Records of the Committee on Fair Employment Practices: Racial Tension File, 1943-1945; and Records of the Tuskegee Airmen.