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Race and Justice

This guide will help you locate the many resources in the BU collections related to race, anti-racism, and racial justice.

BU Libraries Search

BU Libraries Search: BU Libraries Search provides a single place to search for a wide variety of research material provided by the library. Resources covered by the search includes books and eBooks, journals, and more.

Find Books

Search all books available to you by using the BU Libraries Search.

Find Articles

Search all articles available to you by using the BU Libraries Search. You can limit on right-hand column to limit your results by time period, if they are peer-reviewed, and other options.

Specialized Databases

A full list of databases at BU is available here. Pursuit of racial justice and research relating to unjust policing, prosecution, and incarceration is not limited to a discipline.

Selected databases related to race and the pursuit of racial justice are:

Exploring Race in Society: This research database covers issues related to race in society today. Essays, articles, reports and other reliable sources provide an in-depth look at the history of race and provide critical context for learning more about topics associated with race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness.

HeinOnline Civil Rights: Hein Online is a PDF collection of primary and secondary legal materials including: federal regulations and materials, federal statutes, and Supreme Court cases. The Civil Rights Collection includes the Commission on Civil Rights, Committee Prints, CRS reports, and more.

Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle: This collection includes the digitized archives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1909 to 1972.

Slavery and the Law: Features petitions on race, slavery, and freedom seekers that were submitted to state legislatures and county courthouses between 1775 and 1867.

Making of Modern Law: American Civil Liberties Union Papers (1912-1990): This collection of papers spans the majority of the twentieth century, from 1912 to 1990 and includes documents on a wide variety of issues including: civil rights and civil liberties.

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive: The archive covers a range of topics related to the history of slavery, including: legal studies; the inception of slavery in Africa; the Caribbean; the American South, race and the Civil War; children and women under slavery; modes of resistance; and emancipation and life thereafter.

Workers, Labor, and Race: Records of the Fair Employment Practices Committee (1941-1946): Created by Executive Order in 1941, the Fair Employment Practices Committee dealt with the needs of minority workers and had jurisdiction over complaints against the federal government, against employers and labor unions under contract with the federal government, and against employers and unions engaged in war production. 

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