AMST-203 Conflicts and Cultures in American Society: The 1970s (Wickman): Resources from the Trinity Library

For the Documerica Project (1971-1977), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hired freelance photographers to capture images relating to environmental problems, EPA activities, and everyday life in the 1970s.

The UFW photographic archive is housed at Wayne State University. The collection contains about 440 images.

Housed at DePaul University this small collection contains scanned images from the newspaper of the Young Lords Organization. Note: most of the content scanned is from the 1960s, but there are some issues from 1970.

Palante (1970 - 1976) was a bilingual newspaper published by the Young Lords Party. The group was founded in July 1969 as the New York chapter of the Young Lords Organization and renamed itself in May 1970 after separating from the Chicago Young Lords. In July 1972, the Young Lords Party became the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization. Palante focused on the Puerto Rican independence movement, the oppression of Puerto Ricans and other Latinos in the United States, and global struggles for liberation.

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The Internet Archive and Open Library offers over 8,000,000 fully accessible public domain eBooks. Contains many primary source documents.

This portal highlights records of Federal agencies and collections that related to the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The selected records contain information on various organizations, including the Nation of Islam (NOI), Deacons for Defense and Justice, and the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP). It also includes records on several individuals, including Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Elaine Brown, Angela Davis, Fred Hampton, Amiri Baraka, and Shirley Chisholm. This portal is not meant to be exhaustive, but to provide guidance to researchers interested in the Black Power Movement and its relation to the Federal government.

Click the link on the search screen to "Browse books and magazines" to find popular magazines from the 1970s.

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