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Description:: Video course on civil rights that focuses on the rights of all Americans under the federal and state Constitutions and laws.
Date of Original:: 2019
Contributing Institution:: LawShelf Educational Media

Description:: Interviews with the students and teachers of the segregated African-American high school in rural Fairfield County, South Carolina, which help to shed light not just on the experience of race and exclusion, but also on the texture of daily life in one of these caring communities.
Date of Original:: 2017-10-26
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

Description:: The Detroit Historical Society’s oral and written history online archive is a unique and invaluable resource, universally accessible to students, researchers and everyone with an interest in Detroit’s past and future. A wide range of perspectives is represented, including those of individuals who were present and in positions of authority in 1967, people who lived in the city at the time and have remained, and people who have moved away. In addition, we have interviewed people who were not yet born in 1967 but have been eager to reflect on how the events affected their lives, their families and their future. Numerous community leaders have been interviewed, including Reverend Wendell Anthony, Edward Deeb, Dr. Karl Gregory, Mike Hamlin, Donald Lobsinger, Marsha Battle Philpot, Reverend Lonnie Peek, Bob Roselle, Harriett Saperstein, and Adam Shakoor.
Date of Original:: 2017-06-20
Contributing Institution:: Detroit Historical Society

Description:: The Detroit Historical Society’s oral and written history online archive is a unique and invaluable resource, universally accessible to students, researchers and everyone with an interest in Detroit’s past and future. A wide range of perspectives is represented, including those of individuals who were present and in positions of authority in 1967, people who lived in the city at the time and have remained, and people who have moved away. In addition, we have interviewed people who were not yet born in 1967 but have been eager to reflect on how the events affected their lives, their families and their future. Numerous community leaders have been interviewed, including Reverend Wendell Anthony, Edward Deeb, Dr. Karl Gregory, Mike Hamlin, Donald Lobsinger, Marsha Battle Philpot, Reverend Lonnie Peek, Bob Roselle, Harriett Saperstein, and Adam Shakoor.
Date of Original:: 2017-06-19/2017-06-20
Contributing Institution:: Detroit Historical Society

Description:: The Atlanta Student Movement Project is a research project uncovering and preserving the history of Atlanta sit-ins and student protests that were pivotal in the success of the Student Movement, the Civil Rights movement, and the history of the city of Atlanta as a whole.
Date of Original:: 2016-10-31/2018-12-05
Contributing Institution:: Kennesaw State University. Department of Archives, Rare Books and Records Management

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:: Interviews of family members, friends and colleagues of former Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson which were conducted in support of the documentary film "Maynard" released in 2017.
Date of Original:: 2015/2019
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta History Center

Description:: Oral histories documenting the history of Athens, Georgia from the mid-twentieth century to the 2010s including neighborhoods and communities in Athens, civil rights demonstrations, African American history, as well as personal histories of narrators.
Date of Original:: 2014/2016
Contributing Institution:: Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

Description:: Georgia-related resources on the Civil Rights movement.
Date of Original:: 2014
Contributing Institution:: Center for Civil & Human Rights Partnership (Atlanta, Ga.)

Description:: From his early exposure to racial segregation as a child and solider in World War 2, to his long career in politics during the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, the story of William Winter is one of courage and leadership set during some of the most tumultuous times in American history.
Date of Original:: 2014
Contributing Institution:: Southern Documentary Project

Description:: Documentary film on James Meredith, the first African American student enrolled at the University of Mississippi
Date of Original:: 2012
Contributing Institution:: Southern Documentary Project

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

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