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Description:: Instructional Web site on the Civil Rights movement incorporating learning modules and other curricular support materials with archival materials.
Date of Original:: 2002/2008
Contributing Institution:: WGBH Educational Foundation

Description:: This collection includes a large number of hand-bills and flyers promoting events organized to either raise awareness of Angela Davis’s imprisonment or to collect funds to support her legal fund.
Date of Original:: 1970/1987
Contributing Institution:: William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library
Sensitive Content:: Material contained in The University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections may negatively depict race, gender, religious beliefs, ethnicities, and class. The University of Alabama Libraries does not endorse the views expressed in these materials. We present our collections as they were originally created to promote scholarly research and analysis.

Description:: Documents describing civil rights projects in Fayette and Haywood counties in Tennessee from 1961 to 1963
Date of Original:: 1961/1963
Contributing Institution:: University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections

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:: 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:: This digital collection consists of reports relating to implementation of school desegregation that were sent to M. Hayes Mizell in his role with the American Friends Service Committee, his own speeches and writings, and photographs.
Date of Original:: 1950/2024
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library
University of South Carolina. Libraries

Description:: Documents relating to the Little Rock Office of Desegregation Management.
Date of Original:: 1950/2014
Contributing Institution:: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies

Description:: The Atlanta Urban League (AUL) was established in 1920 as an affiliate of the National Urban League. The AUL served as an organization dedicated to addressing the social and economic concerns of African Americans in the city of Atlanta.
Date of Original:: 1948/1964
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

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Date of Original:: 1935/1990
Contributing Institution:: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections

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:: 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:: 1927/1971
Contributing Institution:: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections

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