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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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Clear All Subject Segregation in education--United States Rights In Copyright

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

Description:: Radio documentary tracing Thurgood Marshall's life as a lawyer and legislator.
Date of Original:: 2004-05
Contributing Institution:: American Public Media

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:: Selected photographs from U.S. News and World Report Magazine of the Civil Rights movement.
Date of Original:: 1959/1970
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

Description:: The Local Television News Collections at Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) comprise approximately 1.5 million feet of 16mm motion picture film outtakes dating from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, donated by several South Carolina television stations. These outtakes document over two decades of local people and events, as well as reportage surrounding significant moments in national and world news throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Paper holdings include teleprompter scripts from 1963 through 1979.
Date of Original:: 1955/1980
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

Description:: Multimedia resource for secondary school teachers to enhance their knowledge and ability in teaching African American history.
Date of Original:: 1954/1975
Contributing Institution:: Columbia Center for Digital Research and Scholarship

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:: Online exhibit mounted by the Library of Congress documenting Brown v. the Board of Education.
Date of Original:: 1954/2004
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

Description:: Clippings from publications at Guildford College related to the civil rights movement in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Date of Original:: 1945/2005
Contributing Institution:: Guilford College. Library
Sensitive Content:: Racial slurs are present in articles within this collection.

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:: 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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