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Description:: Collection of scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and photographs documenting desegregation and sit-ins in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Date of Original:: 1955/1980
Contributing Institution:: University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Description:: This curated collection brings together diverse archival footage from the University of South Carolina's Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) documenting the Civil Rights movement, and the long struggle for equality and social justice in South Carolina and beyond.
Date of Original:: 1955/1975
Contributing Institution:: University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections
University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

Description:: Online teaching guide companion to a documentary about the Civil Rights movement in New Orleans, Louisiana covering the years 1950 to 1965.
Date of Original:: 1955/1965
Contributing Institution:: Southern Institute for Education and Research

Description:: The Local Television News Collections at Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) comprise approximately 1.5 million feet of 16mm motion picture film outtakes dating from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, donated by several South Carolina television stations. These outtakes document over two decades of local people and events, as well as reportage surrounding significant moments in national and world news throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Paper holdings include teleprompter scripts from 1963 through 1979.
Date of Original:: 1955/1980
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

Description:: Online exhibit on the Montgomery bus boycott featuring photographs and other documents.
Date of Original:: 1955/1956
Contributing Institution:: IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law

Description:: Lesson plans designed to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education by highlighting significant Delaware school desegregation cases, the state's implementation of the Brown decision, and Delaware's role in the development of national civil rights laws.
Date of Original:: 1954/2007
Contributing Institution:: Delaware Law Related Education Center, Inc.

Description:: Multimedia resource for secondary school teachers to enhance their knowledge and ability in teaching African American history.
Date of Original:: 1954/1975
Contributing Institution:: Columbia Center for Digital Research and Scholarship

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:: Virtual tour, timeline, and lesson plans related to the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
Date of Original:: 1954/1958
Contributing Institution:: AETN (Television station : Conway, Ark.)

Description:: Online exhibit mounted by the Library of Congress documenting Brown v. the Board of Education.
Date of Original:: 1954/2004
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

Description:: Selected Baldy editorial cartoons from the Atlanta Journal Constitution, covering the Civil Rights movement in Georgia and the rest of the South from 1953 to 1982.
Date of Original:: 1953/1980
Contributing Institution:: Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

Description:: The Bob Simms collection documents the life and activities of Robert H. Simms in the black communities in Coconut Grove and Miami and reflects his work with the Community Relations Board and the Defense Race Relations Institute. The collection also contains campaign materials from Leah Simms, the first African American female judge in the state of Florida, and the "Glory in the Grove" photographs of people and events at the George Washington Carver elementary and high schools in Coconut Grove before desegregation. A final component of the collection includes photographs, correspondence and clippings of General "Chappie" James and his family. General James was the first four star African American General and married Dorothy Watkins.
Date of Original:: 1953/1964
Contributing Institution:: University of Miami. Library. Special Collections

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