Human Rights Manuscript Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut

African National Congress Collection (a small collection of memorabilia collected as part of the UConn ANC Partnership in 1999)

African National Congress Oral History Transcripts Collection (133 transcripts of oral history interviews with leading anti-apartheid activists conducted between 2000 and 2006.)

Alternative Press Collections (independent and counter-culture newspapers and publications from activist movements for social, cultural, and political change. The collection contains thousands of newspapers, serials, books, pamphlets, ephemera and artifacts documenting activist themes and organizations.)

Center for Oral History Interviews Collection (includes interviews with Holocaust survivors in the Connecticut Region conducted in 1980-1981, as well as "Witnesses To Nuremberg, An Oral History Of American Participants At The War Crimes Trials.")

Dodd (Thomas J.) Papers (include materials from the Nuremberg war crimes trial before the International Military Tribunal from 1945-46)

Ho (Fred) Papers (accounts of Asian American culture and experience in the United States)

Mikhailov (Georgi) Collection (photographs and articles regarding Mikhailov's experiences in Soviet Labor camps in Northeast Siberia from 1980-1983)

Human Rights Internet Collection (the publications library of Human Rights Internet, a Canadian NGO which collected human rights publications from around the world, including materials which are not found in any other libraries in North America.)

Impact Visuals Photographic Collection (photographs and slides which document the anti-apartheid movement and 1994 democratic elections in South Africa)

Malka Penn Collection of Children's Books on Human Rights (over 140 children's books and young adult literature dealing with a variety of human rights themes including slavery, the Holocaust, war, and discrimination.)

North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) Archive (over 100 linear feet of materials including holdings on human rights, politics, and socio-economic conditions in Chile, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, and other parts of Central America.)

Refugee Case Files of the International Rescue Committee (records of the New Jersey office of the International Rescue Committee-- some materials in the collection are restricted.)

Romano Human Rights Digital Photograph Collection (Collection of noted photographer Robin Romano's gripping images of child labor from around the world. Access available to the UConn community through HuskyCT; outside researchers should contact the curator for access information.)

Tambo (Oliver) Papers (microfilm copies of the papers of anti-apartheid activist, Oliver Tambo; original documents are located at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa)

Xuma (A.B.) Papers (microfilm copies of the papers of anti-apartheid activist, A.B. Xuma; original documents are located at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa)

For more information about the human rights archival collections, please visit the Dodd Center's website.

Searching for Human Rights Archival Materials in Homer:

Go to the main HOMER page, http://homerweb.lib.uconn.edu/

Click on the "Advanced Search" tab.

Then, click "Set More Limits" in the lower right corner. That will bring you to a new menu. In the Location box, scroll down and select "Dodd/Archives & Special Collections", and then click "Set Limits."

That will take you back to the advanced search page. From there, enter your search terms, such as "Latin America" and "human rights," etc.

To search within the Human Rights Internet Collection, use "Human Rights Internet" as one of your search terms.

Other Collections at the University of Connecticut

African American Studies Institute, Archives and Video Collection (contains The Stanley Lawson Collection of Denver Post Clippings on African-American Life, History, and Music from 1986-2001, as well as selected newspapers and magazines.

Asian American Studies Institute, Japanese American Internment Resource Library (contains oral histories, books, videos and other materials documenting the internment of Japanese Americans during the second world war.)

Selected Human Rights Archival Collections at Other Institutions

University of Minnesota Human Rights Library

Collection of over 85,000 human rights documents and treaties available online. Provides links to other resources and collections.

Columbia University, Butler Library, Rare Book and Manuscript Collections

Columbia houses the records of various human rights NGOs, including Amnesty International USA, Human Rights Watch, Helsinki Watch, Physicians for Human Rights, Human Rights First, and Concerned Scientists.

Additionally, Columbia houses the Telford Taylor Papers at the Diamond Law Library.

Duke University Archive for Human Rights

Houses the papers of The Center for Death Penalty Litigation; Student Action with Farmworkers; and papers of other human rights organizations and activists.

Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, Univeristy of Texas at Austin

The Rapoport Center provides a listing of human rights collections at UT Austin in both the Tarlton Law Library and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.

The Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute Archives, Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley

The Meiklejohn Institute has published guides on civil liberties and human rights, as well Human Rights Docket, Human Rights and Peace Law Docket, and Human Rights Casefinder, 1953-1969. There are materials regading the anti-Vietnam war movements, the Free Speech Movement trial, the mass arrests in Peoples Park, as well as materials from the trials of Angela Y. Davis, the Pentagon Papers, and Wounded Knee.

Amnesty International Archives Index Online, Ohio University

Open Society Archives Online Finding Aids for Human Rights Materials , Budapest, Hungary

Human Rights Publications at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut

Search HOMER for Human Rights periodicals, newspapers, and newsletters.

Limit the location to "Dodd/Archives & Special Collections" and search for "Human Rights"