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Description:: With a public service career spanning over 70 years, the speeches of Senator Strom Thurmond document the evolution of his thoughts, opinions, and philosophies in all of the public offices he held – State Senator, Circuit Judge, Governor, and U.S. Senator.
Date of Original:: 1935/1960
Contributing Institution:: South Carolina Digital Library

Description:: Corporate minutes of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia dating from 1932-2005.
Date of Original:: 1932/2005
Contributing Institution:: Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia

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

Description:: Indices to Atlanta University historical theses and dissertations, dating from 1931 to 1975
Date of Original:: 1931/1975
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Description:: The Bacote papers document an important period in the history of Atlanta, and of Atlanta University. The activities of one very prominent scholar and community leader help provide an important piece of the history of the university and its community.
Date of Original:: 1930/1978
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Description:: John James Herrera (1910-1986), a lawyer and leading civil rights advocate for Mexican Americans, played a role in key cases that ultimately established that separate schools for Mexican American children were illegal and that the systematic exclusion of Spanish-speaking citizens from service on juries was unconstitutional.
Date of Original:: 1930/1987
Contributing Institution:: University of North Texas. Libraries

Description:: South Carolina Council on Human Relations (SCCHR) played a key role in fostering better living and social conditions for African Americans and promoting racial harmony within South Carolina and the South generally. Its archives document the movement for civil rights within South Carolina during the twentieth century.
Date of Original:: 1930/1975
Contributing Institution:: University of South Carolina. Libraries
Sensitive Content:: This collection contains a great deal of historical information, and in some documents you will find racial slurs. The University of South Carolina Libraries does not promote or endorse these slurs, but instead looks to provide unedited historical documents about the civil rights movement in South Carolina.

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Date of Original:: 1929/2003
Contributing Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

Description:: Web site for the Stanford University-based Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute which works in cooperation with the Martin Luther King, Jr. family to publish and preserve the speeches, writings, and correspondence of Martin Luther King
Date of Original:: 1929/2007
Contributing Institution:: Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project

Description:: Demographic information pertaining to the growth of the Fulton County, Georgia school system located in and around Atlanta between the years 1929 and 1977.
Date of Original:: 1929/1977
Contributing Institution:: Fulton County Schools Archive

Description:: Yearbooks and newspapers from Indianapolis' first segregated high school (1928-1986).
Date of Original:: 1928/1986
Contributing Institution:: Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis University 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

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