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“Montgomery Bus Boycott”	Records that have the exact phrase Montgomery Bus Boycott
Albany OR Augusta +integration	Records with the word integration that also contain the words Albany and/or Augusta
King -Martin	Records with the name King but not the name Martin
“Freedom Rides” AND Carter	Records containing the phrase “Freedom Rides” and the name Carter
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Description:: Images of the Founders, Buildings, and Special Schools that chronicle the history of the historically Black, Lincoln University that place its history into a national context.
Date of Original:: 1860/1959
Contributing Institution:: Inman E. Page Library (Lincoln University of Missouri)

Description:: Late nineteenth and mid-twentieth century manuscript collections that document the historical development of education for African Americans, primarily in the South.
Date of Original:: 1860/1959
Contributing Institution:: Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History

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Date of Original:: 1860/9999
Contributing Institution:: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections

Description:: Southern diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives of relatively inaccessible populations: women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans.
Date of Original:: 1860/1920
Contributing Institution:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)

Description:: Photographs of Atlanta University before its consolidation with Clark College, containing photographs dating from 1858 to 1995, with the bulk of the material falling between 1905 and 1968.
Date of Original:: 1858/1995
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Description:: Images that document the people, events, and places important in the history of the historically Black university, University of the District of Columbia, and its predecessor institutions Miner Normal School, Miner Teachers College, Wilson Normal School, Wilson Teachers College DC Teachers College, Federal City College, Washington Technical Institute, Antioch School of Law, DC School of Law, as well as the University of the District of Columbia.
Date of Original:: 1852/2009
Contributing Institution:: University of the District of Columbia

Description:: Papers of Durham, North Carolina civic leader Rencher Nicholas Harris, the first African American city councilman in Durham, and the first African American man to sit on the Durham County Board of Education; Harris' service to Durham spanned the period following the Brown school desegregation decision of 1954 and continued throughout the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Date of Original:: 1851/1965
Contributing Institution:: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Description:: Materials belonging to African American educator, journalist, and reformer Charles N. Hunter from Raleigh, North Carolina that discuss and illuminate the problems experienced by emancipated African Americans during Reconstruction and into the early 20th century, encompassing agriculture, business, race relations, reconstruction, education, politics, voting rights, and economic improvement.
Date of Original:: 1850/1932
Contributing Institution:: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Description:: Funeral programs documenting the funeral services of residents, primarily African American, who were connected to the Savannah, Georgia community.
Date of Original:: 1850/2024
Contributing Institution:: City of Savannah Municipal Archives

Description:: Georgia State University's Southern Labor Archives, established in 1971, is dedicated to collecting, preserving and making available the documentary heritage of Southern workers and their unions, as well as that of workers and unions having a historic relationship to the region.
Date of Original:: 1850/2010
Contributing Institution:: Georgia State University. Special Collections

Description:: Photographs dating from the 1840s to the 2009 from the photography staff of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Date of Original:: 1840/2009
Contributing Institution:: Georgia State University. Special Collections

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