Oral history has been a useful tool for historians seeking to document individual experiences. Below is a list of organizations that maintain oral history collections related to civil rights. Most of the collections are available online. If not, please contact the organization directly for further information.

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
The museum's Complete Collections Guide is a treasure trove of letters, photos, press clippings, and pamphlets—a literal scrapbook of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and '60s. The museum houses the 56 Alabamian oral histories recorded by Duke University's "Behind the Veil" researchers, as well as 300 interviews from its own oral history project that are available in audio, video, and transcript form.

Civil Rights Documentation Project
The University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage showcases Tougaloo College's collection of approximately 40 oral histories. The site also includes a timeline with audio.

Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
The University of Southern Mississippi's (USM) Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage is arguably the repository for material relating to this subject. USM's digital collection features the largest database of oral history transcripts—complete with brief biographies of each subject—as well as manuscripts and photographs that document this turbulent time in the state's history.

Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies: Behind the Veil Oral History
"Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South" includes more than 1,000 audio-taped interviews with African Americans who experienced segregation in the South from 1890 through the 1950s. More than 300 narratives are available in transcript form. The project materials were used for the book/CD set and PBS radio series Remembering Jim Crow.