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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:: Selected photographs of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy campaigning in African American voting precincts located in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Date of Original:: 1968-05-04
Contributing Institution:: Indiana Historical Society

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

Description:: The Mildred Grossman collection contains photographs of the Little Rock Nine, the first African American students to attend an integrated school in Arkansas in 1957; Grossman photographed the students during a trip to New York City in the summer of 1958, where the students met with union leaders, diplomats, and elected officials who wished to honor them for their courage and achievements.
Date of Original:: 1958
Contributing Institution:: Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery. Special Collections Department

Description:: Online exhibit including instructional materials related to the cases that made up Brown v. Board of Education.
Date of Original:: 1954
Contributing Institution:: National Museum of American History (Smithsonian)
National Museum of American History (U.S.)

Description:: The Negro Motorist Green Book series was published by Victor H. Green as a resource for African American travelers; the information provided in the travel guide enabled African Americans to find safe and welcoming dining and lodging accommodations during the days of segregation.
Date of Original:: 1949
Contributing Institution:: Henry Ford (Organization)

Description:: Correspondence and materials relating to issues of national importance during the 1960s, including civil rights legislation, from congressional files belonging to Basil Lee Whitener (1915-1989), a U.S. Representative from Gastonia, N.C.
Date of Original:: 1889/1968
Contributing Institution:: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Description:: Papers of Durham, North Carolina civic leader Rencher Nicholas Harris, the first African American city councilman in Durham, and the first African American man to sit on the Durham County Board of Education; Harris' service to Durham spanned the period following the Brown school desegregation decision of 1954 and continued throughout the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Date of Original:: 1851/1965
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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