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Clear All Location United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta State Alabama

Description:: The Atlanta Student Movement Project is a research project uncovering and preserving the history of Atlanta sit-ins and student protests that were pivotal in the success of the Student Movement, the Civil Rights movement, and the history of the city of Atlanta as a whole.
Date of Original:: 2016-10-31/2018-12-05
Contributing Institution:: Kennesaw State University. Department of Archives, Rare Books and Records Management

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:: This digital collection includes finished prints by 20th century American photojournalist James Karales made between 1953 and 1985.
Date of Original:: 1953/2006
Contributing Institution:: Duke University. Library

Description:: Dockets, drafts of opinions, notes, and conference memorandums for the U.S. Supreme Court desegregation cases Sweatt v. Painter, Brown v. Board of Education, Heart of Atlanta v. Georgia, and Katzenbach v. McClung.
Date of Original:: 1949/1967
Contributing Institution:: Tarlton Law Library

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