New VIVA Readex collections now available

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Thanks to generous support from SCHEV’s Fund for Excellence and Innovation, VIVA has purchased two new primary source collections from Readex. Both are now available at all VCCS libraries:

African Americans and Jim Crow: Repression and Protest, 1883-1922 (Readex)
http://library.vccs.edu/license-bin/linker.plx?aajcrp

This collection offers +1,000 fully searchable books, pamphlets, and speeches from the beginning of Jim Crow to post-World War I that provide insights into African American culture and life during this period of segregation and disenfranchisement. Topics include African American identity, relationships with peoples of other nations, and literature.


African Americans and Reconstruction: Hope and Struggle, 1865-1883  (Readex)
http://library.vccs.edu/license-bin/linker.plx?aarhs

This collection offers roughly 1,400 fully searchable printed works, books, pamphlets, and speeches from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of Jim Crow. It includes documents related to African Americans and citizenship, voting rights, literacy, land rights, employment, and more, including the gaps between written law and practice.

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Information on access via Primo is TBD.