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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
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Description:: Civil rights-related correspondence of Senator Albert Gore, Sr. from 1956 to 1968
Date of Original:: 1956/1968
Contributing Institution:: Albert Gore Research Center (Murfreesboro, Tenn.)

Description:: Black Trailblazers, Leaders, Activists, and Intellectuals in Cleveland contains approximately 2000 images of 500 individuals selected from the photographs in the Cleveland Press Collection. The photographs in the collection generally date from the 1920s on, with most of them from 1960 to 1982 and are arranged alphabetically by the individual's last name. To be included in the collection, an individual had to be either born or raised in the greater Cleveland area or have lived a significant part of his/her life in the region.
Date of Original:: 1912/1990
Contributing Institution:: Michael Schwartz Library

Description:: This digital collection consists of materials related to African American lives, emphasizing matters of education, politics, and labor.
Date of Original:: 1882/2003
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:: This collection consists of material from the archives at Trenholm State Community College Montgomery, Alabama.
Date of Original:: 1875/2008
Contributing Institution:: H. Councill Trenholm State Technical College

Description:: Volunteer Voices provides access to digitized primary sources documenting the history and culture of Tennessee. Significant events from Civil Rights Movement are presented in this collection from the perspective of Tennesseans.
Date of Original:: 1801/2022
Contributing Institution:: University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections

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