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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
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Description:: Interviews from 2014-2020 documenting the development of Athens as a breeding ground for multiple musical communities including the Southern independent rock scene.
Date of Original:: 2014/2020
Contributing Institution:: Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

Description:: The Cleaborn Homes Collection includes interviews with former residents of the Cleaborn Homes housing project in Memphis, Tennessee. Cleaborn Homes were part of Memphis public housing, specifically Foote Homes, which were segregated in the 1960s, and retained a largely African-American population continuing through the 1990s.
Date of Original:: 2011
Contributing Institution:: Rhodes College

Description:: Read transcripts of and listen to oral history interviews conducted by the Studs Terkel Center for Oral History of the Chicago History Museum.
Date of Original:: 2008/2019
Contributing Institution:: Chicago History Museum

Description:: The collection hold film containing footage of people and places significant to the murder of Emmett Till, recorded by Keith A. Beauchamp for use in the documentary motion picture The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till.
Date of Original:: 2001/2018
Contributing Institution:: Florida State University Libraries. Special Collections

Description:: Sixteen digital videocassette tapes documenting the 13 April 2000 conference, "We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest: Ella J. Baker ("Miss Baker") and the Birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee," held at Shaw University, in Raleigh, NC.
Date of Original:: 2000
Contributing Institution:: Duke University. Library

Description:: An oral history interview from 2020 and a photograph from 1980-1989 documenting the lives and experiences of Barbara Freeman Cooper and Eartha Bryant Head, two African American women who grew up in the Lemon Street neighborhood of Marietta, Georgia.
Date of Original:: 1980/2020
Contributing Institution:: Kennesaw State University. Department of Archives, Rare Books and Records Management

Description:: The William Gravely Oral History Collection on the Lynching of Willie Earle consists of 41 oral history interviews and accompanying supplementary materials.
Date of Original:: 1980/1999
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

Description:: Georgia-related oral histories from the Southern Oral History Program.
Date of Original:: 1972/2006
Contributing Institution:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library

Description:: Civil rights-related digital interviews, music, and lectures from the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies.
Date of Original:: 1970/2020
Contributing Institution:: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies

Description:: The University of Washington Special Collections began collecting oral histories in the 1960s as part of an effort to document the history and culture of our regional ethnic communities. Forging partnerships with local organizations, oral historians recorded interviews with members of the Scandinavian American, African American, Japanese American, and Jewish communities in Seattle and Washington State.
Date of Original:: 1968/2015
Contributing Institution:: University of Washington. Libraries. Special Collections Division

Description:: Stories gathered to commemorate the summer of 1967 in Detroit.
Date of Original:: 1967/2019
Contributing Institution:: Detroit Historical Society

Description:: Professor John Burrison founded the Atlanta Folklore Archive recordings in 1967 at Georgia State University. He trained undergraduates and graduate students enrolled in his folklore curriculum to conduct oral history interviews. Students interviewed men, women, and children of various demographics in Georgia and across the southeast on crafts, storytelling, music, and traditions.
Date of Original:: 1966/1970
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta History Center

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