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“Montgomery Bus Boycott”	Records that have the exact phrase Montgomery Bus Boycott
Albany OR Augusta +integration	Records with the word integration that also contain the words Albany and/or Augusta
King -Martin	Records with the name King but not the name Martin
“Freedom Rides” AND Carter	Records containing the phrase “Freedom Rides” and the name Carter
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Clear All Location United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery

Description:: Free, online reference resource on Alabama's history, culture, geography, and natural environment.
Date of Original:: 2018
Contributing Institution:: Encyclopedia of Alabama (Project)

Description:: Short film, biographies, timeline, and newspaper articles about the Montgomery bus boycott.
Date of Original:: 2005
Contributing Institution:: Montgomery Advertiser (Firm)

Description:: H. Councill Trenholm State Technical College Collections Online features online descriptions to key collections belonging to Trenholm State's Division of Institutional Archives and Special Collections of Montgomery's Pioneer Voting Rights Activists; selected collections described at this site cover significant events in Alabama's voting rights movement, as well as materials about prominent Montgomery, Alabama-area African American civil rights workers, elected officials, and educators.
Date of Original:: 2000
Contributing Institution:: H. Councill Trenholm State Technical College

Description:: Documents related to Memphis police chief and former F.B.I. agent Frank Holloman related to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Date of Original:: 1968-04
Contributing Institution:: Memphis Public Library. Memphis and Shelby County Room

Description:: Letter about the Selma-Montgomery March, letter about the preservation of the Lorraine Motel, and a pamphlet about the history of the NAACP.
Date of Original:: 1965
Contributing Institution:: Memphis Public Library. Memphis and Shelby County Room

Description:: Papers of Memphis Mayor Edmund Orgill
Date of Original:: 1965
Contributing Institution:: Memphis Public Library. Memphis and Shelby County Room

Description:: James H. "Jim" Peppler, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was a staff photographer of the weekly paper, The Southern Courier, from May 1965 to mid-1968. During his three years working for the Southern Courier, Mr. Peppler took over 11,000 photographs documenting the civil rights movement, social conditions in central Alabama, the nightclub Laicos in Montgomery, and the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Date of Original:: 1965/1968
Contributing Institution:: Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Description:: Explore the Museum’s vast and diverse collection of prints and photographic materials. Dating from the late 18th century to the present, this material comprises the single largest source of pictorial information for the Chicago metropolitan area.
Date of Original:: 1957/1968
Contributing Institution:: Chicago History Museum

Description:: Mug shots of civil rights workers arrested in Montgomery, Alabama on February 21, 1956 and on May 25, 1961.
Date of Original:: 1956-02-21
1961-05-25
Contributing Institution:: Montgomery County (Ala.). Archives

Description:: Documents, sound recordings, and visual images covering the Civil Rights movement in Alabama and the work of Southern activists.
Date of Original:: 1956/1974
Contributing Institution:: Pennsylvania State University. Special Collections Library

Description:: Online exhibit on the Montgomery bus boycott featuring photographs and other documents.
Date of Original:: 1955/1956
Contributing Institution:: IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law

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