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Description:: The Concerned White Citizens of Alabama records consist of the organization’s constitution, statement of purpose, minutes from meetings, and correspondence between officers of the organization and a variety of supporters, media representatives, and elected officials. In addition, the records contain membership cards, mailing lists, envelopes, flyers, bank statements, and many more. Of particular interest are flyers distributed throughout the state by the CWCA, as well as a series of sworn citizens’ statements related to the case of Caliph Washington.
Date of Original:: 1960/1969
Contributing Institution:: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, Ala.)

Description:: N.A.A.C.P. card and reprinting of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham City Jail from the family of Memphis African American businessman, Robert R. Church.
Date of Original:: 1959/1963
Contributing Institution:: University of Memphis. Libraries. Special Collections Department

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:: Online exhibit on the Montgomery bus boycott featuring photographs and other documents.
Date of Original:: 1955/1956
Contributing Institution:: IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law

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 papers, which consist of letters, memoranda, clippings, photographs and reports, are the office files kept by Theophilius Eugene "Bull" Connor during his last five years as Commissioner of Public Safety.
Date of Original:: 1951/1963
Contributing Institution:: Birmingham Public Library (Ala.)

Description:: Dockets, drafts of opinions, notes, and conference memorandums for the U.S. Supreme Court desegregation cases Sweatt v. Painter, Brown v. Board of Education, Heart of Atlanta v. Georgia, and Katzenbach v. McClung.
Date of Original:: 1949/1967
Contributing Institution:: Tarlton Law Library

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Date of Original:: 1932/1972
Contributing Institution:: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections

Description:: History of African American life during the age of Jim Crow, roughly the period from the 1890s to the 1950s.
Date of Original:: 1890/1959
Contributing Institution:: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Description:: This collection includes transcriptions of interviews about Birmingham events and personalities.
Date of Original:: 1889/1995
Contributing Institution:: Birmingham Public Library (Ala.)

Description:: This digital collection consists of materials related to African American lives, emphasizing matters of education, politics, and labor.
Date of Original:: 1882/2003
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.

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