Online access to the following previously-microfilmed archival collections:
- African Americans in the Military, Part 1: Subject Files of Judge William Hastie, Civilian Aide to the Secretary of War, A-C
- African Americans in the Military, Part 2: Subject Files of Judge William Hastie, Civilian Aide to the Secretary of War, D-M
- African Americans in the Military, Part 3: subject files of Judge William Hastie, Civilian Aide to the Secretary of War, N-Z
- 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 Bush Administration
- Civil Rights during the Carter Administration, 1977-1981, Part 1: Papers of the Special Assistant for Black Affairs, Section A
- Civil Rights during the Carter Administration, 1977-1981, Part 1: Papers of the Special Assistant for Black Affairs, Section B
- Civil Rights during the Carter Administration, 1977-1981, Part 1: Papers of the Special Assistant for Black Affairs, Section C
- Civil Rights during the Carter Administration, 1977-1981, Part 1: Papers of the Special Assistant for Black Affairs, Section D
- Civil Rights during the Eisenhower Administration, Part 1: White House Central Files, Series A, School Desegregation
- Civil Rights during the Johnson Administration, 1963-1969, Part I: The White House Central Files
- Civil Rights during the Johnson Administration, 1963-1969, Part II: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: Administrative History
- Civil Rights during the Johnson Administration, 1963-1969, Part III: Oral Histories
- Civil Rights during the Johnson Administration, 1963-1969, Part IV. Papers of the White House Conference on Civil Rights
- Civil Rights during the Johnson Administration, 1963-1969, Part V: Records of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission)
- Civil Rights during the Kennedy Administration, 1961-1963, Part 1: The White House Central Files and Staff Files and the President’s Office Files
- Civil Rights during the Kennedy Administration, 1961-1963, Part 2: The Papers of Burke Marshall, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights
- Civil Rights during the Kennedy Administration, 1961-1963, Part 3: The Civil Rights Files of Lee C. White
- Civil Rights during the Nixon Administration, 1969-1974, Part 1: The White House Central Files
- Civil Rights Movement and the Federal Government, Records of the Interstate Commerce Commission on Discrimination in Transportation, 1961-1970
- Civil Rights Movement and the Federal Government: Records of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, 1958-1973
- Civil Rights Movement and the Federal Government: Records of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Police-Community Relations in Urban Areas, 1954-1966
- Civil Rights Movement and the Federal Government: Records of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, School Desegregation in the South, 1965-1966
- Civil Rights Movement and the Federal Government: Records of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Special Projects, 1960-1970
- Department of Justice Classified Subject Files on Civil Rights, 1914-1949
- East St. Louis Riot of 1917
- FBI Files on Black Extremist Organizations, Part 1: COINTELPRO Files on Black Hate Groups and Investigation of the Deacons for Defense and Justice
- FBI Files on Black Extremist Organizations, Part 2: Huey Newton and Eldridge Cleaver of the Black Panther Party
- Federal Surveillance of Afro-Americans (1917-1925): The First World War, the Red Scare, and the Garvey Movement
- Martin Luther King Jr. FBI File, Part 1
- Martin Luther King Jr. FBI File, Part 2: The King-Levison 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, Part 1: Racial Tension File, 1943-1945
- Records of the Tuskegee Airmen, Part 1: Records of the Army Air Forces
These collections comprise a mixture of manuscript documents, typescript documents, printed documents, and graphical material like photographs and drawings. When using this collection, bear in mind that while the collection interface provides full-text searching capability, not all of the documents in the collection (e.g. manuscript material and images) can actually be keyword searched. Subject indexes are searchable but not browsable.