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Civil Rights Movement in America (1950's and 1960's): Newspaper articles

This guide provides resources that will enable you to critically examine the African-American's turbulent struggle for civil rights in 20th century America.

In Text Citations

Inside your paper, give credit to the works you quote.

See examples of how to tell your readers where facts, paraphrases, or quotes in your paper come from at this site from the Purdue OWL.

Basic Print Newspaper Citation

No Author:

Title of article. (Year, Month Day). Title of Newspaper, Page.

One Author:

Author's Last Name, Author's First Initial. (Year, Month Day). Title of article.

       Title of
Newspaper, Page(s).

Example Newspaper article, no author

Wait till ice cream trucks get wind of this. (2007, November 21). The New York

          Times
,
p. F2.

Example Online Newspaper article, 1 author

Kelley, T. (2000, March 23). Twinkie strike afflicts fans with snack famine. The New York Times.

     Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com