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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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Clear All State Tennessee Rights In Copyright

Description:: Issues dating from 1950 to 1970 of the Memphis-based, African American newspaper, the Memphis World.
Date of Original:: 1950/1970
Contributing Institution:: Rhodes College

Description:: Documents related to judge and civil rights activist Russell B. Sugarmon.
Date of Original:: 1950
Contributing Institution:: Rhodes College

Description:: 1946 monograph by the Southern Conference on Human Welfare about a race-related incident in Columbia, Tennessee
Date of Original:: 1946
Contributing Institution:: University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections

Description:: Oral histories, records, and black-and-white photographs related to the Civil Rights movement in Nashville, Tennessee.
Date of Original:: 1940/2006
Contributing Institution:: Nashville Public Library
Nashville Public Library (Tenn.). Special Collections Division

Description:: The Wisconsin Historical Society presents a collection of Wisconsin historical images from the 19th and 20th centuries. The images include photographs, paintings, and posters. Users may search the images by keyword or by category. The categories include children, crime, ethnic groups, health, immigration and emigration, war, women, rites and ceremonies, and Indians of North America.
Date of Original:: 1940/1973
Contributing Institution:: Wisconsin Historical Society

Description:: The James W. Silver Digital Collection contains news clippings and pamphlets that document the controversy surrounding Silver’s publicly-expressed support for ending segregation, particularly after the publication of Mississippi: The Closed Society.
Date of Original:: 1928/1986
Contributing Institution:: John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

Description:: Correspondence, published literature, and notes dating from 1919 to 1938 related to the Women of the Ku Klux Klan
Date of Original:: 1919/1938
Contributing Institution:: John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

Description:: The Everett R. Cook Collection includes interviews conducted from 1979-2004 as part of the Everett R. Cook Oral History Collection on Civil Rights, made available through a partnership with the Memphis Public Library.
Date of Original:: 1905/2004
Contributing Institution:: Rhodes College

Description:: Images providing an overview the early years of Tennessee State University, a historically Black university founded in 1912 as the State Normal School for Negroes.
Date of Original:: 1900/1984
Contributing Institution:: Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Library Alliance

Description:: History of African American life during the age of Jim Crow, roughly the period from the 1890s to the 1950s.
Date of Original:: 1890/1959
Contributing Institution:: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Description:: Photographs, programs, and publications that document the history of Nashville-based historically Black university, Fisk University.
Date of Original:: 1866/2001
Contributing Institution:: John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library (Fisk University)

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