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Description:: Online encyclopedia and online magazine from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
Date of Original:: 2022
Contributing Institution:: Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities

Description:: Documenting the Civil Rights Movement in Baton Rouge and surrounding parishes.
Date of Original:: 1993/1998
Contributing Institution:: LSU Libraries. Special Collections

Description:: Only known copy of the 1959 legal analysis that was used to justify the desegregation of Tulane University.
Date of Original:: 1959
Contributing Institution:: Howard-Tilton Memorial Library. Special Collections (Division)

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:: Eisenhower administration documents related to the Brown versus the Board of Education case
Date of Original:: 1951
1953/1954
1957
Contributing Institution:: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

Description:: The James W. Silver Digital Collection contains news clippings and pamphlets that document the controversy surrounding Silver’s publicly-expressed support for ending segregation, particularly after the publication of Mississippi: The Closed Society.
Date of Original:: 1928/1986
Contributing Institution:: John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and 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:: Article on the implementation of racial segregation laws and the impact of segregation in the state of Louisiana.
Date of Original:: 1865/1970
Contributing Institution:: KnowLA

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