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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:: The Ebony Herald was the first minority publication of East Carolina University. It was printed from 1975 through 1984.
Date of Original:: 1975/1984-11
Contributing Institution:: J.Y. Joyner Library

Description:: Georgia-related oral histories from the Southern Oral History Program.
Date of Original:: 1972/2006
Contributing Institution:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library

Description:: In the late 1960s during a time of racial disparity and heightened tensions, this community bulletin gently insists upon justice. The authors alternately seek to encourage and to unite people of color in Abilene by providing encouraging stories and histories of well-known people of color.
Date of Original:: 1967/1968
Contributing Institution:: University of North Texas. Libraries

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:: Clippings from publications at Guildford College related to the civil rights movement in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Date of Original:: 1945/2005
Contributing Institution:: Guilford College. Library
Sensitive Content:: Racial slurs are present in articles within this collection.

Description:: Collection documenting the civil rights activism of Marian Bruce Logan.
Date of Original:: 1945/1989
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

Description:: South Carolina Council on Human Relations (SCCHR) played a key role in fostering better living and social conditions for African Americans and promoting racial harmony within South Carolina and the South generally. Its archives document the movement for civil rights within South Carolina during the twentieth century.
Date of Original:: 1930/1975
Contributing Institution:: University of South Carolina. Libraries
Sensitive Content:: This collection contains a great deal of historical information, and in some documents you will find racial slurs. The University of South Carolina Libraries does not promote or endorse these slurs, but instead looks to provide unedited historical documents about the civil rights movement in South Carolina.

Description:: The Scrapbooks Collection is compiled of newspaper clippings covering different historical events in Alabama, Mississippi, and other states in the nation.
Date of Original:: 1913/1995
Contributing Institution:: Birmingham Public Library (Ala.)

Description:: Founded in 1942 by African American businessman John H. Johnson, the Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. published Ebony and Jet magazines, as well as other publications. This collection contains newspapers clippings, press releases, and more used as research for the various publications.
Date of Original:: 1905/1982
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Description:: Southern diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives of relatively inaccessible populations: women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans.
Date of Original:: 1860/1920
Contributing Institution:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)

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