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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:: Covering the period since the onset of the civil rights era, the Civil Rights in Black and Brown oral history interviews with African American, Mexican American, and white activists located throughout the large, diverse state adds new depth to the study of “black/brown” and multicultural relations past and present.
Date of Original:: 2015-06-03/2017-02-21
Contributing Institution:: University of North Texas. Libraries

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:: Oral histories conducted by Bob Short between 2006 and 2010 with politically prominent Georgians.
Date of Original:: 2006/2013
Contributing Institution:: Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

Description:: Records of the Cobb County Branch of the (NAACP) during the presidential terms of Donnie Perry (1994-1997) and Deane Bonner (1997-present).
Date of Original:: 1975/1986
Contributing Institution:: Kennesaw State University. Department of Archives, Rare Books and Records Management

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:: Civil rights-related photographs from the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies.
Date of Original:: 1962/2021
Contributing Institution:: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies

Description:: Collection of interviews and news broadcasts covering Martin Luther King's assassination, the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, and other civil rights related news and events. Audio collected by the Memphis Search for Meaning Committee from 1968-1973.
Date of Original:: 1960/1973
Contributing Institution:: Rhodes College

Description:: Explore the Museum’s vast and diverse collection of prints and photographic materials. Dating from the late 18th century to the present, this material comprises the single largest source of pictorial information for the Chicago metropolitan area.
Date of Original:: 1957/1968
Contributing Institution:: Chicago History Museum

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:: 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

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