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Description:: Collection documenting the civil rights activism of Marian Bruce Logan.
Date of Original:: 1945/1989
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

Description:: Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, audiovisual recordings, and more documenting AFL-CIO work between 1943 and 1999.
Date of Original:: 1943/1999
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries

Description:: Correspondence of a personal nature, regarding health and family matters, but some discuss Smith's activities while on lecture tours. Includes an editorial from 1951 calling Smith's book "Strange Tripe."
Date of Original:: 1943/1955
Contributing Institution:: Hargrett Library

Description:: The collection consists entirely of the typed minutes of the Mississippi State Textbook Rating and Purchasing Board (1940-46), the Mississippi State Textbook Purchasing Board (1946-1981), and the Mississippi State Textbook Procurement Commission (1981-1987).
Date of Original:: 1940/1987
Contributing Institution:: John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

Description:: Civil rights related oral histories including primarily discussing events in the 1950s and 1960s.
Date of Original:: 1940/1970
Contributing Institution:: University of Southern Mississippi. Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage

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

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Date of Original:: 1940/1989
Contributing Institution:: University of Miami. Library. Special Collections

Description:: Programs, yearbooks, newspapers, and reports documenting Savannah State University, Georgia's oldest public historically black college or university, from 1939 to 2011.
Date of Original:: 1939/2011
Contributing Institution:: Asa H. Gordon Library (Savannah, Ga.)

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Date of Original:: 1939
Contributing Institution:: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections

Description:: Civil rights cases from U.S. District courts
Date of Original:: 1938/1995
Contributing Institution:: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Atlanta Branch

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Date of Original:: 1938/1998
Contributing Institution:: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. National Archives at Philadelphia
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