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Albany OR Augusta +integration	Records with the word integration that also contain the words Albany and/or Augusta
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Description:: Florida State University Libraries' Special Collections & Archives started collecting tweets posted on Twitter using the hashtag, #EmmettTill, in March 2017. Tweets are collected using the tool, IFTTT, and deposited in a Google Drive directory before processed for the digital library. In keeping with privacy polices of both Twitter and FSU Libraries, only the tweet content, along with any associated URLs, and their published dates are made public as part of FSU's automated collection of Twitter and the #EmmettTill hashtag. FSU only collected tweets that users decided to share publicly.
Date of Original:: 2017/2021
Contributing Institution:: Florida State University Libraries. Special Collections

Description:: Read transcripts of and listen to oral history interviews conducted by the Studs Terkel Center for Oral History of the Chicago History Museum.
Date of Original:: 2008/2019
Contributing Institution:: Chicago History Museum

Description:: The Southern Patriot was a progressive southern newspaper that ran from from 1942-1973 out of South Carolina.
Date of Original:: 1965/1974
Contributing Institution:: Valdosta State University. Odum Library. Archives and Special Collections

Description:: The collection contains correspondence, newsletters, publications, and other materials relating to the activities of Faith Holsaert from the 1960s to the present.
Date of Original:: 1950/2011
Contributing Institution:: Duke University. Library

Description:: Between 1973 and 1989, the Southeast Division made seven donations of materials to the GSU Southern Labor Archives. These include correspondence, print materials and publications by the AFL-CIO and other organizations, administrative records, photographs, and audio recordings, as well as the personal papers of E.T. Kehrer. 
Date of Original:: 1949/1989
Contributing Institution:: Georgia State University. Special Collections

Description:: Research materials gathered by Professor Davis Houck and COM3930 students on the Emmett Till murder case and related events, including news clippings and government records.
Date of Original:: 1908/2015
Contributing Institution:: Florida State University Libraries. Special Collections

Description:: Professional papers, case files, and collected publications of Joseph Tobias, attorney based in Chicago, Illinois, regarding his representation of Mamie Till-Mobley from 1955 to 1960.
Date of Original:: 1900/2005
Contributing Institution:: Florida State University Libraries. Special Collections

Description:: Civil rights-related documents from the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies.
Date of Original:: 1880/2014
Contributing Institution:: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies

Description:: The Indianapolis School Board of Commissioners voted on a plan to create a segregated high school in 1922 and Crispus Attucks High School opened in 1927 with an enrollment of 1,345 African American students. In addition to its famous 1955 state championship basketball team, Attucks produced many well-known alumni in several professional fields. Attucks flourished as both an academic institution and center for the African American community, and was simultaneously linked with the struggle for civil rights in education. This collection contains photographs and documents relating to the school and its history.
Date of Original:: 1869/2016
Contributing Institution:: Indiana Historical Society

Description:: Volunteer Voices provides access to digitized primary sources documenting the history and culture of Tennessee. Significant events from Civil Rights Movement are presented in this collection from the perspective of Tennesseans.
Date of Original:: 1801/2022
Contributing Institution:: University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections

Description:: This collection traces the history and culture of African Americans particularly in the Eastern North Carolina region.
Date of Original:: 1728/2018
Contributing Institution:: J.Y. Joyner Library

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