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Clear All Subject African Americans--Segregation Rights In Copyright Contributing Institution Library of Congress

1.
Collection
Voices of civil rights

Description:: Online exhibit mounted by the Library of Congress on the Civil Rights movement.
Date of Original:: 2005
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

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Collection
Civil Rights History Project

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.)

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Collection
Rosa Parks papers

Description:: Items from the Manuscript Division and the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress that document many aspects of Parks's private life and public activism on behalf of civil rights for African Americans.
Date of Original:: 1866/2006
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress