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Clear All Subject Segregation in education--United States Medium web sites

Description:: Online exhibit including instructional materials related to the cases that made up Brown v. Board of Education.
Date of Original:: 1954
Contributing Institution:: National Museum of American History (Smithsonian)
National Museum of American History (U.S.)

Description:: The Wisconsin Historical Society presents a collection of Wisconsin historical images from the 19th and 20th centuries. The images include photographs, paintings, and posters. Users may search the images by keyword or by category. The categories include children, crime, ethnic groups, health, immigration and emigration, war, women, rites and ceremonies, and Indians of North America.
Date of Original:: 1940/1973
Contributing Institution:: Wisconsin Historical Society

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

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