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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:: 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:: Correspondence regarding the Anisfield-Wolf Award Committee, books that have been nominated for the award, and personal matters. The collection also includes a carbon from Norman Cousins to Lillian Smith, and a telegram announcing Smith's death.
Date of Original:: 1956/1966
Contributing Institution:: Hargrett 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:: Documents regarding the Eisenhower administration's views on civil rights
Date of Original:: 1955/1960
Contributing Institution:: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

Description:: Documents from the Eisenhower administration related to the 1955 murder of Emmett Till
Date of Original:: 1955/1956
Contributing Institution:: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

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:: 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:: Lesson plans designed to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education by highlighting significant Delaware school desegregation cases, the state's implementation of the Brown decision, and Delaware's role in the development of national civil rights laws.
Date of Original:: 1954/2007
Contributing Institution:: Delaware Law Related Education Center, Inc.

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:: 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:: 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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