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Description:: Papers of Georgia author, lecturer, human rights advocate Lillian Smith (1897-1966) from circa 1920-1980, one of the first prominent white Southerners to stand against segregation.
Date of Original:: 1920/1980
Contributing Institution:: Hargrett Library

Description:: Personal papers dating from 1919-1996 of Septima P. Clark, a Charleston educator and civil rights activist.
Date of Original:: 1919/1996
Contributing Institution:: Avery Research Center

Description:: 1,327 documents and images documenting the investigation into the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 and Tulsa during the early 1920s.
Date of Original:: 1919/1923
Contributing Institution:: Oklahoma. Department of Libraries

Description:: Lillian Smith (1897-1966), author, lecturer, and human rights advocate, was born in Jasper County, Florida, and resided in Rabun County, Georgia. Her best known fiction piece was the controversial 1944 novel 'Strange Fruit'.
Date of Original:: 1915/1972
Contributing Institution:: University of Florida. Libraries

Description:: Documents, correspondence and publications produced by the Fulton County Schools Superintendents' office between 1914 and 1969.
Date of Original:: 1914/1969
Contributing Institution:: Fulton County Schools Archive

Description:: Materials document the lifelong involvement of African American civic leaders Asa and Edna Spaulding in the business, political, educational, religious, and social life of Durham, N.C.; the Spauldings were active in a broad range of political bodies, businesses, civic groups, and activist organizations.
Date of Original:: 1909/1997
Contributing Institution:: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Description:: Activist Modjeska Simkins of Columbia, S.C. served as the South Carolina State Secretary for the NAACP, 1941-1957; as Campaign Director for the renovation of Good Samaritan-Waverly Hospital, 1944-1950; as Public Relations Director for the Richland County Citizens Committee, 1956-1988; and as President of the Southern Conference Educational Fund, 1972-1974.
Date of Original:: 1909/1992
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library
University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

Description:: Selections from the collections of Wake County, North Carolina's first African American librarian, Mollie Huston Lee.
Date of Original:: 1907/1982
Contributing Institution:: Richard B. Harrison Library (Raleigh, N.C.)

Description:: Documents from the Papers of Robert E. McNair at South Carolina Political Collections
Date of Original:: 1905/1989
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

Description:: Building the African-American Community is a collection of photographs and texts largely from the Jacob Fontaine Religious Museum, dedicated to preserving the African-American cultural history of Austin, Texas.
Date of Original:: 1900/1985
Contributing Institution:: Jacob Fontaine Religious Museum
Marfa Public Library (Marfa, Tex.)

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