Listed below are a number of online, easily accessible primary and secondary sources on the modern American South.  These should come in quite handy for your final paper. 

GENERAL RESOURCES, LINKS, ETC

ENC's NEASE LIBRARY
A recent acquisition, and one of our most valuable resources at the library, is JSTOR, a massive, searchable collection of journals. Especially of use for this class will be the Journal of Negro History, the Journal of Southern History, the Journal of American History, the American Historical Review, and Reviews in American History.  Articles can be downloaded as pdfs.  Some of these publications run back to the late nineteenth century.  See also, the library's countless other resources through Proquest and other portals. 

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA LIBRARY'S RESEARCHING THE AMERICAN SOUTH SITE
This page diplays dozens of links to primary source sites and includes helpful hints on secondary sources and research.

INFOUSA: A GOVERNMENT SPONSORED WEB SITE
"Links to Collections of Historical Materials: The 1800s, Civil War and Slavery, America in the 20th Century, Specific Topics . . ."

AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, SITES FOR STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS
Contains links to "excellent resources for students and researchers. In many cases, the owning institutions--including Columbia University, Stanford University, Washington State University, University of Mississippi, New York Public Library, and  Library of Congress--generously share primary documents that would otherwise not be available. When in-depth biographical or historical information is called for, it is still a good idea to supplement Web sites with more thorough book-length treatments from the print collection of your library."

JOURNALS, FORUMS, AND SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS

THE JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN RELIGION
This is a peer-reviewed academic journal that I co-edit.  It is parked on the Florida State University server.  The JSR is entirely online and contains articles and reviews by the leading scholars in the field.  It will be especially of use to anyone researching religion in the American South.  Topics include Catholicism, civil rights, southern sacred music, violence and southern religion, fundamentalism, pentecostalism, gender, and much more. 

SOUTHERN SPACES: AN INTERNET JOURNAL AND SCHOLARLY FORUM
"Southern Spaces was created at Emory University with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Editorial Board welcomes submissions of contextual materials on the South that use ideas of place and space as organizing principles. Southern Spaces also currently welcomes inquiries from those who are interested in publishing materials on this site. Please contact Managing Editor Katherine Skinner."  The site also contains a very handy list of resources/links on a variety of topics.

H-NET'S H-SOUTH SITE
"H-South is the H-Net discussion list dealing with the culture and history of the American South." 

JSTOR AT ENC's NEASE LIBRARY
A massive, searchable collection of journals.  

THE NEW GEORGIA ENCYCLOPEDIA 
"The New Georgia Encyclopedia provides an authoritative source of information about people, places, events, institutions, and many other topics relating to the state. On this site you will find articles and images on nearly every aspect of Georgia as well as convenient links to other Web sites related to the history, culture, and life of the state." 

NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES

BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY DIGITAL RESOURCES
The BPL has a host of tremendous resources on its web page.  All you need to access this is a BPL card, which is free and available to all Boston-area residents.  The site's History material is particularly convenient.  There you can find datatbases like American History and Life, Archive of Americana, History Resource Center: U.S., and Gale Virtual Reference Library.  See also the Newspapers section, where you'll find hundreds of searchable weeklies and dailies, including a number of southern papers going back to the 1860s.  In addition this link contains sublinks to full-text academic journals and magazines.

MAKING OF AMERICA
Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 9,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. For more details about the project, see About MoA. Making of America is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

ORAL HISTORY, BIOGRAPHIES, PRIMARY SOURCES

DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN SOUTH:
“Documenting the American South (DAS) is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. It is organized into the projects listed above. The Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sponsors DAS, and the texts come primarily from its Southern holdings. An editorial board guides its development.”

LIKE A FAMILY: THE MAKING OF A SOUTHERN COTTON MILL WORLD
"Based on the award-winning book of the same name, Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987), the website, created by Dr. James Leloudis and Dr. Kathryn Walbert, uses excerpts of several oral histories to inform the public about the lives of southern textile mill workers. Divided into three main sections (Life on the Land, Mill Village & Factory, and Work & Protest) 'Like a Family' features an organized arrangement of materials that is easy to navigate."

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN ODYSSEY:
“The exhibition The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, showcases the incomparable African American collections of the Library of Congress. Displaying more than 240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings, this is the largest black history exhibit ever held at the Library, and the first exhibition of any kind to feature presentations in all three of the Library's buildings.”

FIRST-PERSON NARRATIVES OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH, 1860-1920:
“This compilation of printed texts from the libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill documents the culture of the nineteenth-century American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. It includes the diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives of not only prominent individuals, but also of relatively inaccessible populations: women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans. An award from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the digitization of 101 titles published during and after the Civil War. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supplemented these titles with another forty first-person narratives, many published before 1860.”

AMERICAN LIFE HISTORIES: MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE FEDERAL WRITERS’ PROJECT, 1936-1940:
“These life histories were written by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940. The Library of Congress collection includes 2,900 documents representing the work of over 300 writers from 24 states. Typically 2,000-15,000 words in length, the documents consist of drafts and revisions, varying in form from narrative to dialogue to report to case history. The histories describe the informant's family education, income, occupation, political views, religion and mores, medical needs, diet and miscellaneous observations. Pseudonyms are often substituted for individuals and places named in the narrative texts.”

RECLAIMING THE EVERGLADES:
“Includes a rich diversity of unique or rare materials: personal correspondence, essays, typescripts, reports and memos; photographs, maps and postcards; and publications from individuals and the government. Major topics and issues illustrated include the establishment of the Everglades National Park; the growth of the modern conservation movement and its institutions, including the National Audubon Society; the evolving role of women on the political stage; the treatment of Native Americans; rights of individual citizens or private corporations vs. the public interest; and accountability of government as trustees of public resources, whether for the purposes of development, reclamation, or environmental protection. The materials in this online compilation are drawn from sixteen physical collections housed in the archives and special collections of the University of Miami, Florida International University and the Historical Museum of Southern Florida.”

MUSIC

"NOW WHAT A TIME": BLUES, GOSPEL, AND THE FORT VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVALS, 1938-1943:
“Consists of approximately one hundred sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, Georgia. The documentation was created by John Wesley Work III in 1941 and by Lewis Jones and Willis Laurence James in March, June, and July 1943. Also included are recordings made in Tennessee and Alabama (including six Sacred Harp songs) by John Work between September 1938 and 1941. These recording projects were supported by the Library of Congress's Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center). Song lists made by the collectors, correspondence with the Archive about the trips, and a special issue of the Fort Valley State College student newsletter, The Peachite: Festival Number, are also included. One interesting feature of this collection is the topical rewording of several standard gospel songs to address the wartime concerns of the performers. This online presentation is made possible by the generous support of The Texaco Foundation.”

THE JOHN AND RUBY LOMAX 1939 SOUTHERN STATES RECORDING TRIP:
“A multiformat ethnographic field collection that includes nearly 700 sound recordings, as well as fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month, 6,502-mile trip through the southern United States. Beginning in Port Aransas, Texas, on March 31, 1939, and ending at the Library of Congress on June 14, 1939, John Avery Lomax, Honorary Consultant and Curator of the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center), and his wife, Ruby Terrill Lomax, recorded approximately 25 hours of folk music from more than 300 performers. These recordings represent a broad spectrum of traditional musical styles, including ballads, blues, children's songs, cowboy songs, fiddle tunes, field hollers, lullabies, play-party songs, religious dramas, spirituals, and work songs. Photographic prints from the Lomaxes' other Southern states expeditions, as well as their other recording trips made under the auspices of the Library of Congress, illustrate the collection, since no photographs from the 1939 Southern States Recording Trip have been identified. For more information about related documentary projects undertaken by the Archive of American Folk Song in 1939, see the 1939 Annual Report of the Library of Congress. This presentation is made possible by the generous support of The Texaco Foundation.”

PBS: AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC
Companion site to the 2001 public television documentary.