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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:: Mug shots of civil rights workers arrested in Montgomery, Alabama on February 21, 1956 and on May 25, 1961.
Date of Original:: 1956-02-21
1961-05-25
Contributing Institution:: Montgomery County (Ala.). Archives

Description:: This collection contains more than 3 million negatives taken by newspaper photographers working for the Birmingham News, the Huntsville Times, and Mobile’s Press-Register between the 1920s and the early 2000s (mostly from the 1960s to the 1990s).
Date of Original:: 1956/1991
Contributing Institution:: Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Description:: Civil rights-related correspondence of Senator Albert Gore, Sr. from 1956 to 1968
Date of Original:: 1956/1968
Contributing Institution:: Albert Gore Research Center (Murfreesboro, Tenn.)

Description:: Black-and-white photographs from the Knoxville Journal of the 1956 school integration efforts in Clinton, Tennessee
Date of Original:: 1956
Contributing Institution:: McClung Historical Collection

Description:: Black-and-white photographs of Autherine Lucy, the first African American student admitted to the University of Alabama, enrolling at The University of Alabama in February 1956.
Date of Original:: 1956
Contributing Institution:: William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library
Sensitive Content:: Material contained in The University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections may negatively depict race, gender, religious beliefs, ethnicities, and class. The University of Alabama Libraries does not endorse the views expressed in these materials. We present our collections as they were originally created to promote scholarly research and analysis.

Description:: Documents, sound recordings, and visual images covering the Civil Rights movement in Alabama and the work of Southern activists.
Date of Original:: 1956/1974
Contributing Institution:: Pennsylvania State University. Special Collections Library

Description:: Black-and-white photographs documenting the University of Alabama during its integration by Autherine Lucy in February 1956.
Date of Original:: 1956
Contributing Institution:: William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library
Sensitive Content:: Material contained in The University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections may negatively depict race, gender, religious beliefs, ethnicities, and class. The University of Alabama Libraries does not endorse the views expressed in these materials. We present our collections as they were originally created to promote scholarly research and analysis.

Description:: The Negro Travelers' Green Book series was published by Victor H. Green as a resource for African American travelers; the information provided in the travel guide enabled African Americans to find safe and welcoming dining and lodging accommodations during the days of segregation.
Date of Original:: 1956
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

Description:: Photographs and files of the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, the state's official counter civil rights agency from 1956 to 1973.
Date of Original:: 1956/1973
Contributing Institution:: Mississippi. Department of Archives and History

Description:: This digital collection includes calendars, letters, publications, essays, speeches and other papers documenting James T. McCain’s involvement with local and national civil rights organizations. The bulk of the items evidence his interest in local issues such as illiteracy, integration of public schools, and voter turnout in South Carolina’s African American community.
Date of Original:: 1955/2003
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library
University of South Carolina. Libraries

Description:: Photographs and documents relating to the Little Rock School Integration Crisis from the collections of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Date of Original:: 1954/1958
Contributing Institution:: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

Description:: Online exhibit mounted by the Library of Congress documenting Brown v. the Board of Education.
Date of Original:: 1954/2004
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

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