The NAACP branch files in this module chronicle the local heroes of the civil rights revolution via NAACP branches throughout the United States, from 1913-1972. The contributions of scores of local leaders ”attorneys, community organizers, financial benefactors, students, mothers, school teachers, and other participants” are revealed in these records. The Branch Department, Branch Files, and Youth Department Files in this module of NAACP Papers will allow researchers at all levels new opportunities to explore the contributions of NAACP local leaders. The branch files also indicate how effectively the NAACP national office used the branch network to advance the NAACP national program. The Youth Department Files document how the NAACP tapped the energy and talent of college students and other young people at the state and local levels.

This NAACP module focuses on the NAACPs efforts regarding anti-lynching, peonage, and discrimination in employment and the criminal justice system. A rich set of records in this module is the NAACP file on one of the most celebrated criminal trials of the 20th century the case of the Scottsboro boys. In this case, nine young black men were accused of raping two white women on a train in northern Alabama. Sixteen days after their arrest, eight of the nine teenagers were sentenced to death in the electric chair. All eight escaped execution when the Supreme Court, in the landmark case of Powell v. Alabama, ruled that the defendants had been inadequately represented by counsel.

This module consists of Papers of the NAACP Legal Department from 1956-1972. For the period from 1956-1965, this includes the working case files of the NAACP's general counsel, Robert Carter. Among the topics covered in these cases are school desegregation, abuses of police procedure, freedom of speech, desegregation of public facilities, voting rights, housing discrimination, and employment discrimination. The files include the background correspondence of NAACP attorneys as well as court documents, including transcripts of court proceedings. A small sampling of the important cases in this module include NAACP v. Alabama (freedom of association), Gomillion v. Lightfoot (voting rights), Allen v. County School Board and Griffin v. County School Board (school desegregation in Virginia), Ogletree v. McNamara (employment discrimination), and Powell v. McCormack (seating of Congressman Adam Clayton Powell in the U.S. House of Representatives).

From its founding in 1888, the National Geographic Society has grown into an organization synonymous with exploration, photography, maps, and rethinking the world as we know it. From the iconic National Geographic magazine archive view hundreds of books, maps, videos and images.

The Native Health Database contains bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations. The database provides information for the benefit, use, and education of organizations and individuals with an interest in health-related issues, programs, and initiatives regarding North American indigenous peoples.

Natural Product Updates (NPU) provides access to graphical abstracts of new developments in natural product chemistry, selected from dozens of primary source journals. Some topics covered in the database include isolation studies, biosynthesis, new natural products, known compounds from new sources, structure determinations, and more. Around 200 graphical abstracts are published online each month, including structure diagrams, trivial and taxonomic names, molecular formulas, and physical and biological properties. Where items are taken from Royal Society of Chemistry journal articles, direct links are provided to the full text if it is available online.

The Naxos Video Library is a performing arts video library with over 1,300 operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, and musical tours of historic places. It includes the Naxos DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus, Dacapo, and EuroArts, among others, and is continuously updated.

The New Catholic Encyclopedia was named one of the top fifty reference sources produced in the last 1,000 years and is prized for its scholarly presentation of persons and subjects related to Christianity and the humanities. The New Catholic Encyclopedia is an invaluable resource for questions related to the world’s religions. The Encyclopedia contains 12,000 articles in 15 volumes.

The New Play Exchange (NPX) is the world's largest digital library of scripts by living writers. Readers can use the powerful search interface to locate subject keywords in a play's description or browse plays by genre, length, intended audience, cast size and diversity, character gender and race, and playwright demographics. Download writing samples and full texts of plays, when provided by the playwright, or use the “Inquire About Rights” form to contact a playwright directly. Additional information includes script development, production history, and awards, as well as recommendations by other readers and audience reviews.

Log in instructions : 1. Go to accessnyt.com and look up "University of Utah“ Salt Lake City, UT" 2. Click the blue Go button at the bottom of the page 3. Log into the campus network 4. On the NYT registration page, click Create Account button 5. Input information 6. Click Create Account button This is for initial registration only. Once registered, you can go directly to nytimes.com to log in and view content. Access to current New York Times for Students, Staff, and Faculty of the University of Utah. For many years the Collegiate Readership Fee has funded access to Newspapers for University of Utah students. Last year ASUU Student Leaders facilitated a survey to a sample of students asking if they would be interested in an online news option instead. Many students indicated interest in an online option, rather than the current/previous readership program which solely featured paper copies around campus.

Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including the The Sunday Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Arizona Daily Star, The Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, Minneapolis Star Tribune, and more. The database also contains a selection of full-text television & radio news transcripts from CBS News, CNN, FOX News, NPR, and others. The database includes full text articles from The Salt Lake Tribune from September 1997 through April 2008, and full text of the Ogden Standard-Examiner from February 2001 through January 2017.

Nexis Uni's features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis with an intuitive interface that offers discovery across all content types.

Welcome to Nineteenth Century Literary Society. Discover the work of one of the world’s most important publishing dynasties through this collection from the historic John Murray Archive. From book history to travel writing, politics to poetry, this newly digitized resource introduces an unparalleled repository for nineteenth century culture and the literary luminaries who shaped it.

The Nixon Years provides complete FCO 7 and FCO 82 files from The National Archives, Kew, for the entire period of Richard Nixon’s presidency. It offers a different perspective and context from across the Atlantic, providing both an important counterpoint and valuable complement to records in the federal Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Yorba Linda, California, a member of the National Archives and Records Administration’s system of presidential libraries. These files allow scholars and researchers the opportunity to assess, from a British, European and Commonwealth perspective, Nixon’s handling of numerous Cold War crises, his administration’s notable achievements, and his increasingly controversial activities and unorthodox use of executive powers, which culminated in Watergate and resignation.

Description: North American Indian Drama contains 244 plays by 48 playwrights representing the stories and creative energies of American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the twentieth century. More than half of the works are previously unpublished, and hard to find, representing groups such as Cherokee, MÃtis, Creek, Choctaw, Pembina Chippewa, Ojibway, Lenape, Comanche, Cree, Navajo, Rappahannock, Hawaiian/Samoan, and others. Together, the plays demonstrate Native theater's diversity of tribal traditions and approaches to drama melding conventional dramatic form with ancient storytelling and ritual performance elements, experimenting with traditional ideas of time and narrative, or challenging Western dramatic structure.

This database includes a collection of immediate experiences from over 1,300 women, drawn from more than 150,000 pages of diaries and letters spanning more than 300 years. The collection also includes biographies and an annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.

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