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Description:: Records of the Student Government Association of Emory University, an elected body representing the interests of the University's student population, include meeting minutes and agenda, budgets, correspondence, bills and resolutions, rosters, bylaws, publications, and subject files related the work of the Student Government Association and to issues concerning Emory University students
Date of Original:: 1969/1970
Contributing Institution:: Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
Emory University

Description:: This digital collection includes calendars, letters, publications, essays, speeches and other papers documenting James T. McCain’s involvement with local and national civil rights organizations. The bulk of the items evidence his interest in local issues such as illiteracy, integration of public schools, and voter turnout in South Carolina’s African American community.
Date of Original:: 1955/2003
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library
University of South Carolina. Libraries

Description:: The papers, which consist of letters, memoranda, clippings, photographs and reports, are the office files kept by Theophilius Eugene "Bull" Connor during his last five years as Commissioner of Public Safety.
Date of Original:: 1951/1963
Contributing Institution:: Birmingham Public Library (Ala.)

Description:: Civil rights related materials including correspondence, business records, diaries, newspaper clippings, and photographs primarily from the 1950's through the 1960's.
Date of Original:: 1950/1969
Contributing Institution:: University of Southern Mississippi. Libraries

Description:: This digital collection consists of reports relating to implementation of school desegregation that were sent to M. Hayes Mizell in his role with the American Friends Service Committee, his own speeches and writings, and photographs.
Date of Original:: 1950/2024
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library
University of South Carolina. Libraries

Description:: Documents relating to the Little Rock Office of Desegregation Management.
Date of Original:: 1950/2014
Contributing Institution:: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies

Description:: This digital collection provides a contextual glance into primary sources surrounding the legal case Briggs v. Elliott. This court case “challenged school segregation in Summerton, South Carolina. In this collection, you’ll find letters, affidavits, brochures, and reports dating from 1952-1956.
Date of Original:: 1947/1984
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library
University of South Carolina. Libraries

Description:: Collection documenting the civil rights activism of Marian Bruce Logan.
Date of Original:: 1945/1989
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

Description:: South Carolina Council on Human Relations (SCCHR) played a key role in fostering better living and social conditions for African Americans and promoting racial harmony within South Carolina and the South generally. Its archives document the movement for civil rights within South Carolina during the twentieth century.
Date of Original:: 1930/1975
Contributing Institution:: University of South Carolina. Libraries
Sensitive Content:: This collection contains a great deal of historical information, and in some documents you will find racial slurs. The University of South Carolina Libraries does not promote or endorse these slurs, but instead looks to provide unedited historical documents about the civil rights movement in South Carolina.

Description:: Research materials gathered by Professor Davis Houck and COM3930 students on the Emmett Till murder case and related events, including news clippings and government records.
Date of Original:: 1908/2015
Contributing Institution:: Florida State University Libraries. Special Collections

Description:: The I.S. Leevy collection contains a biography, newspaper clippings, personal correspondence and ephemera, and multiple school notebooks from Isaac Samuel Leevy’s time at Hampton Institute (Hampton Junior School) in Hampton, Virginia.
Date of Original:: 1905/1973
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library
University of South Carolina. Libraries

Description:: Since its beginnings in 1888, the Clemson University Board of Trustees is the main governing body for the university. As defined in Thomas Green Clemson’s will, the Board of Trustees consists of seven Trustees who select their successors and six Trustees who are appointed by the State Legislature. The Board’s main responsibility is to govern through establishment of policies that ensure academic quality and freedom, protect the University’s financial security, and ensure efficient and effective administration through the Board’s selected president and its executive officers.
Date of Original:: 1890/1994
Contributing Institution:: South Carolina Digital Library

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