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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 movement related photographs from South Carolina newspapers, The State and The Columbia Record.
Date of Original:: 1950/9999
Contributing Institution:: Richland Library

Description:: Collection containing over 4700 Kodachrome slides and black-and-white photographs documenting the following Mississippi counties in the late 1940s and 1950s: Benton, Clay, Grenada, Holmes, Jones, Marshall, Panola, Prentiss, Quitman, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Union, and Yalobusha. The collection includes 727 images of the University of Mississippi, most of the University images do not have corresponding dates but document the campus and culture prior to the 1962 Integration.
Date of Original:: 1949/1962
Contributing Institution:: John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

Description:: 19th and 20th century images portraying the people, places, and events in King County, Washington's urban, suburban, and rural communities.
Date of Original:: 1947/1964
Contributing Institution:: University of Washington. Libraries
Museum of History and Industry (Seattle, Wash.)
Black Heritage Society of Washington State
Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society
White River Valley Museum
Wing Luke Asian Museum (Seattle, Wash.)
University of Washington. Libraries. Special Collections Division

Description:: A Democrat, Carroll Gartin served three terms as Mississippi's Lieutenant Governor (1952-1956, 1956-1960, and 1964-1966). He lost a 1953 campaign against incumbent James O. Eastland for the U.S. Senate and a 1959 race against Ross Barnett to become governor of the state. In 1966, Gartin announced his intention to run for governor again but died of a heart attack in December of that year.
Date of Original:: 1946/1964
Contributing Institution:: John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

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:: Photographs depicting segregated education in Anaheim, California.
Date of Original:: 1941
Contributing Institution:: Anaheim Public Library (Anaheim, Calif.)

Description:
Date of Original:: 1940/1959
Contributing Institution:: Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research

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

Description:
Date of Original:: 1940/1979
Contributing Institution:: South Carolina. Educational Television Commission

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:: Photographs of civil rights demonstrations in Vine City, the integration of Murphy High School, the Sibley Commission, and Atlanta-based civil rights leaders such as Julian Bond and Ralph Abernathy from 1938 to 1979.
Date of Original:: 1938/1979
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta History Center

Description:: Collection of more than 200 photographs from the Barbara C. Jordan Archives at Texas Southern University. Barbara Jordan was the first African American since Reconstruction to serve in the Texas State Senate. Jordan was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1972, and became the first African American to represent Texas in the House and the first African American woman from the South to be elected to Congress.
Date of Original:: 1936/1996
Contributing Institution:: Texas Southern University. Library

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