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Black Freedom Struggle in the United States contains approximately 1,600 primary source documents focused on six different phases of Black Freedom:

• Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860)


• The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877)


• Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932)


• The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945)


• The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975)


• The Contemporary Era (1976-2000)

Including coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak, this database curates openly available content related to coronaviruses. It includes thousands of open-access articles from the world’s leading publishers as well as current research from pre-print repositories such as arXiv and will continue to grow and evolve as more is learned about the pandemic.