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Description:: The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection, 1946-2014, contains approximately 450 linear feet of personal papers, sermons, speeches, correspondence, SCLC and SCLC/WOMEN records, and hundreds of historical photographs and audiovisual records documenting the Lowery's struggle of justice and equality. The Lowery Trust granted sole ownership of the collection to Morehouse College in March 2021. Shortly thereafter, the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library was formally designated as custodian of the collection with responsibilities for housing and providing access for students, scholars, researchers, and the global community.
Date of Original:: 1946/2014
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

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:: Photographs depicting segregated education in Anaheim, California.
Date of Original:: 1941
Contributing Institution:: Anaheim Public Library (Anaheim, Calif.)

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Date of Original:: 1940/1959
Contributing Institution:: Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research

Description:: Oral histories, records, and black-and-white photographs related to the Civil Rights movement in Nashville, Tennessee.
Date of Original:: 1940/2006
Contributing Institution:: Nashville Public Library
Nashville Public Library (Tenn.). Special Collections Division

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Date of Original:: 1940/1979
Contributing Institution:: South Carolina. Educational Television Commission

Description:: The Wisconsin Historical Society presents a collection of Wisconsin historical images from the 19th and 20th centuries. The images include photographs, paintings, and posters. Users may search the images by keyword or by category. The categories include children, crime, ethnic groups, health, immigration and emigration, war, women, rites and ceremonies, and Indians of North America.
Date of Original:: 1940/1973
Contributing Institution:: Wisconsin Historical Society

Description:: Photographs of civil rights demonstrations in Vine City, the integration of Murphy High School, the Sibley Commission, and Atlanta-based civil rights leaders such as Julian Bond and Ralph Abernathy from 1938 to 1979.
Date of Original:: 1938/1979
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta History Center

Description:: Collection of more than 200 photographs from the Barbara C. Jordan Archives at Texas Southern University. Barbara Jordan was the first African American since Reconstruction to serve in the Texas State Senate. Jordan was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1972, and became the first African American to represent Texas in the House and the first African American woman from the South to be elected to Congress.
Date of Original:: 1936/1996
Contributing Institution:: Texas Southern University. Library

Description:: Educational Media Collection spans from 1963 to 1966 depicting different activities at the University of Alabama including homecoming activities, basketball and football games, beauty pageants, fraternity and sorority activities, coach Hank Crisp, coach Paul Bryant, president Rose on President's Day 1964, demonstrations against Wallace, 1966 Robert F. Kennedy's visit, Lady Bird Johnson at the University, Lurleen Wallace at the University for Governors Day, and department faculty members.
Date of Original:: 1936/1968
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:: Black-and-white and color photographs from 1934 to 2000 of the Pickrick restaurant, Lester Maddox's political campaigns for governor, and his inauguration.
Date of Original:: 1934/2000
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta History Center

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