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Description:: Video course on civil rights that focuses on the rights of all Americans under the federal and state Constitutions and laws.
Date of Original:: 2019
Contributing Institution:: LawShelf Educational Media

Description:: The Detroit Historical Society’s oral and written history online archive is a unique and invaluable resource, universally accessible to students, researchers and everyone with an interest in Detroit’s past and future. A wide range of perspectives is represented, including those of individuals who were present and in positions of authority in 1967, people who lived in the city at the time and have remained, and people who have moved away. In addition, we have interviewed people who were not yet born in 1967 but have been eager to reflect on how the events affected their lives, their families and their future. Numerous community leaders have been interviewed, including Reverend Wendell Anthony, Edward Deeb, Dr. Karl Gregory, Mike Hamlin, Donald Lobsinger, Marsha Battle Philpot, Reverend Lonnie Peek, Bob Roselle, Harriett Saperstein, and Adam Shakoor.
Date of Original:: 2017-06-20
Contributing Institution:: Detroit Historical Society

Description:: The Detroit Historical Society’s oral and written history online archive is a unique and invaluable resource, universally accessible to students, researchers and everyone with an interest in Detroit’s past and future. A wide range of perspectives is represented, including those of individuals who were present and in positions of authority in 1967, people who lived in the city at the time and have remained, and people who have moved away. In addition, we have interviewed people who were not yet born in 1967 but have been eager to reflect on how the events affected their lives, their families and their future. Numerous community leaders have been interviewed, including Reverend Wendell Anthony, Edward Deeb, Dr. Karl Gregory, Mike Hamlin, Donald Lobsinger, Marsha Battle Philpot, Reverend Lonnie Peek, Bob Roselle, Harriett Saperstein, and Adam Shakoor.
Date of Original:: 2017-06-19/2017-06-20
Contributing Institution:: Detroit Historical Society

Description:: Audiovisual recordings and still images created by Clifton during visits to sites in Mississippi significant to the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till.
Date of Original:: 2017
Contributing Institution:: Florida State University Libraries. Special Collections

Description:: The Atlanta Student Movement Project is a research project uncovering and preserving the history of Atlanta sit-ins and student protests that were pivotal in the success of the Student Movement, the Civil Rights movement, and the history of the city of Atlanta as a whole.
Date of Original:: 2016-10-31/2018-12-05
Contributing Institution:: Kennesaw State University. Department of Archives, Rare Books and Records Management

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:: Oral histories documenting the history of Athens, Georgia from the mid-twentieth century to the 2010s including neighborhoods and communities in Athens, civil rights demonstrations, African American history, as well as personal histories of narrators.
Date of Original:: 2014/2016
Contributing Institution:: Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

Description:: Georgia-related resources on the Civil Rights movement.
Date of Original:: 2014
Contributing Institution:: Center for Civil & Human Rights Partnership (Atlanta, Ga.)

Description:: From his early exposure to racial segregation as a child and solider in World War 2, to his long career in politics during the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, the story of William Winter is one of courage and leadership set during some of the most tumultuous times in American history.
Date of Original:: 2014
Contributing Institution:: Southern Documentary Project

Description:: Documentary film on James Meredith, the first African American student enrolled at the University of Mississippi
Date of Original:: 2012
Contributing Institution:: Southern Documentary Project

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:: Twentieth century photographs and other materials documenting the African American contributions in Habersham, Banks, Rabun, and White counties. A virtual version of the exhibit is available.
Date of Original:: 2011
Contributing Institution:: Regional African American Museum of Northeast GA, Inc.

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