American Race Relations: Global Perspectives, 1940-1996

American Race Relations: Global Perspectives, 1940-1996 provides access to CIA monitored, recorded and translated news from newspapers, magazines, books, government statements and radio and television broadcasts that covered American racial issues and race relations in the United States.  It includes commentaries on African-American history, the Civil Rights movement, Hispanic-American history, and Asian-American history.

Content for this collection is primarily sourced from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports and the Joint Publications Research Service Reports. According to Readex, content for this collection was selected to provide a more focused, navigable approach to the topic than may be found in the larger aggregations.