Articles

Academic Search Premier via WIT Alumni Library
  Great place to start - find scholarly and popular magazine articles

Academic OneFile via WIT Alumni Library
  Great place to start - find scholarly and popular magazine articles

JStor via WIT Alumni Library
   Contains full text of articles since journals' inception - sometimes  
   as far back as 1800's

Lexis Nexis Academic via WIT Alumni Library
   Newspapers from around the world going back to 1980's
   Find Transcripts of interviews with leading activists

Speeches and Other Primary MAterial

Famous Speeches Video Gallery via The History Channel
   Streaming video and audio of thousands of famous speeches and
   historic events

Great Speeches Collection via The History Place
   Full text  of famous speeches from Patrick Henry to George W.
   Bush

American Memory Project via U.S. Library of Congress
   "Provides free and open access to written and spoken words,
   sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and
   sheet music that document the American experience"

Social Issues via Librarians' Internet Index
   Lists of quality, informative websites by social movement topic

Books

Finding Books at WIT Alumni Library
   Assignment specific tips:

• Type in social movement's name:  extremely current issues will be less likely to have books written about them
• To find materials about a specific person, type in their names as subjects such as Susan B. Anthony or Frederick Douglass
• To find materials written by a specific person, type in names as authors such as Susan B. Anthony or Frederick Douglass
• Do not limit to WIT Alumni Library only - use the full consortium

Citations & Bibliography

General MLA guidelines via WIT Alumni Library
www.easybib.com via ImagineEasy Solutions
www.mla.org via Modern Language Association