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Description:: Black-and-white photographs and documents covering the Civil Rights movement in Durham, North Carolina during the 1960s.
Date of Original:: 2003/9999
Contributing Institution:: Durham County (N.C.). Library

Description:: Documents related to the February 13, 1969 occupation of Duke University's main administration building by students belonging to the school's Afro-American Society.
Date of Original:: 1969/2002
Contributing Institution:: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Description:: Contains the records of Duke University's Black Student Alliance and materials belonging to Duke University student groups that pertain to the African diaspora, race relations at Duke University, and related activities in the local community.
Date of Original:: 1969/2006
Contributing Institution:: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Description:: Forty-nine recording of Duke University students vigil after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and of the Afro-American Society student-lead occupation of the Allen Building in 1969.
Date of Original:: 1968/1969
Contributing Institution:: Duke University. Library

Description:: Collection of correspondence, by-laws, meeting agendas and minutes, budgets, articles of incorporation belonging to this non-profit, interracial organization founded in Durham, N.C. in September 1968.
Date of Original:: 1968/1998
Contributing Institution:: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Date of Original:: 1966/1981
Contributing Institution:: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Description:: Materials document the lifelong involvement of African American civic leaders Asa and Edna Spaulding in the business, political, educational, religious, and social life of Durham, N.C.; the Spauldings were active in a broad range of political bodies, businesses, civic groups, and activist organizations.
Date of Original:: 1909/1997
Contributing Institution:: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Description:: Items related to John H. Wheeler, who was heavily involved in politics and education through various positions within the federal government and on various boards of trustees for institutions like Morehouse College, Atlanta University, Lincoln Hospital, and the National Scholarship Service for Negro Students.
Date of Original:: 1895/1973
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Description:: History of African American life during the age of Jim Crow, roughly the period from the 1890s to the 1950s.
Date of Original:: 1890/1959
Contributing Institution:: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Description:: Materials belonging to African American educator, journalist, and reformer Charles N. Hunter from Raleigh, North Carolina that discuss and illuminate the problems experienced by emancipated African Americans during Reconstruction and into the early 20th century, encompassing agriculture, business, race relations, reconstruction, education, politics, voting rights, and economic improvement.
Date of Original:: 1850/1932
Contributing Institution:: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

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