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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:: Oral histories (each approximately 20-25 minutes long) of leaders of the Civil Rights movement in Virginia.
Date of Original:: 2003
Contributing Institution:: James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives

Description:: Series of interviews conducted in 1999-2000 as part of a Carver-VCU Partnership project documenting the history of the African American Carver neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia.
Date of Original:: 1999/2000
Contributing Institution:: James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives

Description:: Photographs of African American schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia from the 1950s and 1960s.
Date of Original:: 1959/2003
Contributing Institution:: James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives

Description:: Collection of images of school desegregation protests in Farmville, Virginia, the county seat of Prince Edward County.
Date of Original:: 1959/1969
Contributing Institution:: James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives

Description:: Southern School News is the official publication of the Southern Education Reporting Service, an objective, fact-finding agency established by southern newspaper editors and educators with the aim of providing accurate, unbiased information to school administrators, public officials and interested lay citizens on developments in education arising from the U.S. Supreme Court opinion of May 17, 1954 declaring segregation in the schools unconstitutional.
Date of Original:: 1954/1965
Contributing Institution:: University of Georgia. Libraries

Description:: The Atlanta Urban League (AUL) was established in 1920 as an affiliate of the National Urban League. The AUL served as an organization dedicated to addressing the social and economic concerns of African Americans in the city of Atlanta.
Date of Original:: 1948/1964
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Description:: The purpose of the project is to document education in Goochland County, Virginia, particularly the impact of the Rosenwald Schools, and the differences between the education offered to white and black students during the period the Rosenwald Schools operated.
Date of Original:: 1922/2014
Contributing Institution:: James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives

Description:: Oral history interviews with teachers, activists, clergy, and community leaders who grew up in the predominantly African-American Historic Fulton community in Richmond, Virginia in the 1930s through the 1950s.
Date of Original:: 1900/1999
Contributing Institution:: James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives

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