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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:: Photographs depicting segregated education in Anaheim, California.
Date of Original:: 1941
Contributing Institution:: Anaheim Public Library (Anaheim, Calif.)

Description:: Online scrapbook documenting African American life in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina from the 1940s through the 1990s.
Date of Original:: 1940/1999
Contributing Institution:: Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County (N.C.)

Description:: Oral history interviews with civil rights activists conducted as part of the Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009.
Date of Original:: 1940/1969
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress
American Folklife Center
National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)

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Date of Original:: 1940/1959
Contributing Institution:: Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research

Description:: The collection consists entirely of the typed minutes of the Mississippi State Textbook Rating and Purchasing Board (1940-46), the Mississippi State Textbook Purchasing Board (1946-1981), and the Mississippi State Textbook Procurement Commission (1981-1987).
Date of Original:: 1940/1987
Contributing Institution:: John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and 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:: Civil rights related oral histories including primarily discussing events in the 1950s and 1960s.
Date of Original:: 1940/1970
Contributing Institution:: University of Southern Mississippi. Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage

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Date of Original:: 1940/1979
Contributing Institution:: South Carolina. Educational Television Commission

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Date of Original:: 1940/1989
Contributing Institution:: University of Miami. Library. Special Collections

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:: Programs, yearbooks, newspapers, and reports documenting Savannah State University, Georgia's oldest public historically black college or university, from 1939 to 2011.
Date of Original:: 1939/2011
Contributing Institution:: Asa H. Gordon Library (Savannah, Ga.)