Civil Rights Digital Library

The Bancroft Library is the primary special collections library at the University of California, Berkeley. One of the largest and most heavily used libraries of manuscripts, rare books, and unique materials in the United States, Bancroft supports major research and instructional activities and plays a leading role in the development of the University's research collections. Bancroft's holdings include more than 600,000 volumes; 60,000,000 manuscript items; 8,000,000 photographs/pictorial materials; 43,000 microforms; and 23,000 maps.

• African Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1963-1974
• California Cornerstones: Selected Images from The Bancroft Library Pictorial Collection
• California Cultures

• Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
• Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Oral History Project Collection

Serving as the archives for the City of Birmingham and as the archives for numerous local organizations and institutions, the collection contains more than 12,000 linear feet of archival material and over 400,000 photographs.

• Oral Histories
• Photographs
• Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing Collection
• The Scrapbooks
• Theophilus Eugene ‘Bull’ Connor Papers, 1959-1963

• King County Snapshots: A Photographic Heritage of Seattle and Surrounding Communities

• Aftermath map project
• Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Audio Collection
• Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Documents Collection
• Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Finding Aids Collection
• Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Photographs Collection
• Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Video Collection
• Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
• Office of Desegregation Management