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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
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Description:: Radio documentary about school desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina and Louisville, Kentucky.
Date of Original:: 2007
Contributing Institution:: American Public Media

Description:: Online exhibit about the 1953 bus boycott in Baton Rouge, Louisiana featuring black-and-white photographs, oral histories, and a timeline of events.
Date of Original:: 2002
Contributing Institution:: LSU Libraries. Special Collections

Description:: Oral histories with individuals with ties to both the Civil Rights movement and to Spokane, Washington.
Date of Original:: 2001-02
Contributing Institution:: Washington State University. Library. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections

Description:: Civil rights-related digital interviews, music, and lectures from the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies.
Date of Original:: 1970/2020
Contributing Institution:: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies

Description:: Oral histories documenting the Civil Rights movement in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Date of Original:: 1970/2002
Contributing Institution:: Greensboro Public Library (Greensboro, N.C.)
University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries

Description:: Interviews (available as audio files and transcriptions), mostly conducted in the late 1970s, that document the many aspects of life in Louisville, particularly as experienced by African Americans.
Date of Original:: 1970/1979
Contributing Institution:: University of Louisville. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections

Description:: Interviews (available as audio files), many of which were conducted in the 1970s and 1980s, that document the lives of political and civic leaders, civil rights in Alabama, ethnic history of Alabama, folk history of Alabama, labor history of Alabama, history of Alabama women, historic Alabama communities, Alabama refugee experiences, and history of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Date of Original:: 1970/1990
Contributing Institution:: Mervyn H. Sterne Library

Description:: Interviews were conducted by Kentucky native, author, and first poet laureate of the United States, Robert Penn Warren in 1964 as research for his book Who Speaks for the Negro?
Date of Original:: 1964
Contributing Institution:: Kentucky Digital Library
University of Kentucky. Libraries
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Description:: Collection of interviews and news broadcasts covering Martin Luther King's assassination, the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, and other civil rights related news and events. Audio collected by the Memphis Search for Meaning Committee from 1968-1973.
Date of Original:: 1960/1973
Contributing Institution:: Rhodes College

Description:: Oral history interviews with civil rights activists conducted as part of the Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009.
Date of Original:: 1940/1969
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress
American Folklife Center
National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)

Description:: Oral histories, records, and black-and-white photographs related to the Civil Rights movement in Nashville, Tennessee.
Date of Original:: 1940/2006
Contributing Institution:: Nashville Public Library
Nashville Public Library (Tenn.). Special Collections Division

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