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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
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Description:: Online exhibit on the National Council of Negro Women's Wednesdays in Mississippi Project.
Date of Original:: 2006/2020
Contributing Institution:: University of Houston

Description:: Radio documentary tracing Thurgood Marshall's life as a lawyer and legislator.
Date of Original:: 2004-05
Contributing Institution:: American Public Media

Description:: This collection includes a large number of hand-bills and flyers promoting events organized to either raise awareness of Angela Davis’s imprisonment or to collect funds to support her legal fund.
Date of Original:: 1970/1987
Contributing Institution:: William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library
Sensitive Content:: Material contained in The University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections may negatively depict race, gender, religious beliefs, ethnicities, and class. The University of Alabama Libraries does not endorse the views expressed in these materials. We present our collections as they were originally created to promote scholarly research and analysis.

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:: 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:: The selection consists of correspondence from the Baton Rouge Council on Human Relations on discrimination in public accommodations, 1966.
Date of Original:: 1966
Contributing Institution:: LSU Libraries. Special Collections

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:: Correspondence, notes, publicity flyers, scrapbook pages, news clippings, and other materials concerning the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and Byron M. Baer's experience in the 1961 Freedom Rides to Jackson, Mississippi.
Date of Original:: 1960/1969
Contributing Institution:: Mississippi. Department of Archives and History

Description:: Correspondence and pamphlet of Edwin Dalstrom, Memphis Urban League chair in 1958
Date of Original:: 1958/1959
Contributing Institution:: University of Memphis. Libraries. Special Collections Department

Description:: Eisenhower administration records related to the Civil Rights Act of 1957
Date of Original:: 1957
Contributing Institution:: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

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