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• Your Farm Bureau (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1958), by Alice Sturgis, contrib. by Richard Armour, illust. by Leo Hershfield and Alan Atkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Open Government Guide (formerly titled Tapping Officials' Secrets; updated online edition), by Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (HTML at reporterscommittee.org)

• In Quest of Freedom (Dallas: Royal Pub. Co., c1963), by Virgil C. Stroud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sit Ins: The Students Report (New York: Congress of Racial Equality, 1960), ed. by James Peck
  • PDF at crmvet.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• In Quest of Freedom (Dallas: Royal Pub. Co., c1963), by Virgil C. Stroud (page images at HathiTrust)

• Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story (ca. 1957), by Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) (PDF at crmvet.org)

• Albany (typescript special report; Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1962), by Howard Zinn (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Report of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest (1970; some Kent State photographs omitted in this online edition), by United States President's Commission on Campus Unrest (PDF with commentary at ed.gov)

• Beyond Control: A Mutual Respect Approach to Protest Crowd-Police Relations (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2010), by Vern Neufeld Redekop and Shirley Paré (HTML at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)
• Managing Major Events: Best Practices From the Field (2011), by Police Executive Research Forum (PDF at policeforum.org)

• China's Far West, Conditions in Xinjiang One Year After Demonstrations and Riots: Roundtable Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, Second Session, July 19, 2010 (Washington: GPO, 2010), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China
  • PDF and text at ccec.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Civil Liberties and Social Order: Consultation Document (1997), by Hong Kong (China) Chief Executive's Office (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Crossing the Line: Georgia's Violent Dispersal of Protestors and Raid on Imedi Television (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2007), by Jane Buchanan (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Burntollet (London: L.R.S. Publishers, 1969), by Bowes Egan and Vincent McCormack (illustrated HTML at CAIN)

• Report of the Tribunal Appointed to Inquire into the Events on Sunday, 30th January 1972 (London: HMSO, 1972), by Lord Widgery (HTML at CAIN)

• Report of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry (10 volumes; 2010), by Mark Oliver Saville, William Hoyt, and John Toohey (illustrated HTML with commentary at bloody-sunday-inquiry.org)

• Bloody Sunday: Submission to the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on Summary or Arbitary Executions: The Murder of 13 Civilians by Soldiers of the British Army on 'Bloody Sunday', 30th January 1972 (1994), by British Irish Rights Watch (HTML at CAIN)
• Report of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry (10 volumes; 2010), by Mark Oliver Saville, William Hoyt, and John Toohey (illustrated HTML with commentary at bloody-sunday-inquiry.org)
• Report of the Tribunal Appointed to Inquire into the Events on Sunday, 30th January 1972 (London: HMSO, 1972), by Lord Widgery (HTML at CAIN)
• The Bloody Sunday Tribunal of Inquiry: A Resounding Defeat for Truth, Justice and the Rule of Law, by Dermot Walsh (HTML at CAIN)

• Black Spring, by Elod Kincses (HTML at Corvinus Library)

• Christian Ethics and the Sit-In (New York: Association Press, c1961), by Paul Ramsey (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Umbrella Movement: End Politically Motivated Prosecutions in Hong Kong (in English and Chinese; 2018), by Amnesty International (PDF files at amnesty.org)

• Shutting Out the Critics: Restrictive Laws Used to Repress Civil Society in Jordan (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2007), by Christoph Wicke (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Freedom of Expression and Assembly in Nicaragua During the Election Period (New York and Washington: Americas Watch Committee, 1984), by Americas Watch Committee (U.S.) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• "EuroMaydan": Human Rights Violations During Protests in Ukraine (2013), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• First Amendment: Cases, Controversies, and Contexts (Chicago: CALI eLangdell Press, 2016), by Ruthann Robson (revised first edition: multiple formats at archive.org)

• Handbook for Chairmen of Panels (2006), by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML and PDF in Hong Kong)
• Handbook for Chairmen of Bills Committees, by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML and PDF in Hong Kong)

• Handbook for Chairmen of Panels (2006), by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML and PDF in Hong Kong)
• Handbook for Chairmen of Bills Committees, by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML and PDF in Hong Kong)

• Handbook for Chairmen of Subcommittees on Subsidiary Legislation/Other Instruments, by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML at legco.gov.hk)

• The History of Legislative Methods in the Period Before 1825 (New Haven: Yale University Press; et al., 1917), by Ralph Volney Harlow (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School: Report of the Office of the Child Advocate (Hartford, CT: State of Connecticut, 2014), by Connecticut Office of the Child Advocate (PDF at ct.gov)

• Chicago Police Investigations: Three Reports (aka Police in America, a 1971 compilation of reports from 1898-1912) (PDF files at Northwestern)

• Providing Special Investigative Authorities for the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Report Together with Minority and Dissenting Views (to Accompany H. Res. 167) (Washington: GPO, 1997), by United States House Committee on Rules (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Election (2 redacted volumes in 1; 2019), by Robert S. Mueller, ed. by William Pelham Barr (PDF at govinfo.gov)
• The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew (hearing before the committee, August 1, 2007; Washington: GPO, 2008), by United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alyeska Pipeline Service Company Covert Operation: Report of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session (4 volumes, first labeled "draft report", others labeled exhibit appendixes; Washington: GPO, 1992), by United States House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Referral from Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr in Conformity with the Requirements of Title 28, United States Code, Section 595(c): Communication From Kenneth W. Starr, Independent Counsel, Transmitting a Referral to the United States House of Representatives Filed in Conformity with the Requirements of Title 28, United States Code, section 595(c) (the Starr Report on Clinton and Lewinsky, with appendices), by Kenneth Starr (page images at HathiTrust)

• Final Report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (Washington: GPO, 2022), by United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (PDF and text at govinfo.gov)

• Annual Report, by United States House Committee on Un-American Activities (partial serial archives)

• The Legislative Committee Game: A Comparative Analysis of Fifty States (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Wayne L. Francis (PDF at Ohio State)

• Guide for Discussion Leaders (1944), by Donald W. Goodrich
  • illustrated HTML at historians.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy Through Deliberative Elections (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), by John Gastil (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Pocket Manual of Rules of Order For Deliberative Assemblies (Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Company, 1876), by Henry M. Robert (Gutenberg text)
• Reed's Parliamentary Rules: A Manual of General Parliamentary Law, With Suggestions for Special Rules, by Thomas B. Reed (HTML at wa.gov)
• Robert's Rules of Order Revised (1915 edition), by Henry M. Robert (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Your Farm Bureau (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1958), by Alice Sturgis, contrib. by Richard Armour, illust. by Leo Hershfield and Alan Atkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Both Sides of the Veil: A Personal Experience (Boston: Sherman, French and Co., 1909), by Anne Manning Robbins (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.