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Clear All State Virginia Rights In Copyright

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Mapping local knowledge : Danville, Virginia, 1945-1975

Description:
Date of Original:: 2009/2011
Contributing Institution:: University of Virginia. Library

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Encyclopedia Virginia : Civil Rights Movement

Description:: Encyclopedia articles on Virginia civil rights leaders, court cases, and events.
Date of Original:: 2008/2011
Contributing Institution:: Virginia Humanities

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Civil Rights movement in Virginia : An exhibition on display February 7 - June 19, 2004

Description:: Online exhibit the African American Civil Rights Movement in the twentieth century in Virginia with a focus on the 1950s and 1960s.
Date of Original:: 2004
Contributing Institution:: Virginia Historical Society

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Voices of freedom : the Virginia civil rights movement / produced by the Virginia Civil Rights Movement Video Initiative.

Description:: Oral histories (each approximately 20-25 minutes long) of leaders of the Civil Rights movement in Virginia.
Date of Original:: 2003
Contributing Institution:: James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives

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William A. Elwood Civil Rights Lawyers Project collection, 1984-1989

Description:
Date of Original:: 1984/1989
Contributing Institution:: University of Virginia. Library

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Edward H. Peeples Prince Edward County (Va.) public schools

Description:: Photographs of African American schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia from the 1950s and 1960s.
Date of Original:: 1959/2003
Contributing Institution:: James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives

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WSLS-TV Roanoake, Va., News Film Collection, 1951-1971

Description:: Television news footage and scripts read on-air by anchorpersons at WSLS-TV in Roanoke, Virginia from 1951 to 1971; content includes a significant amount of coverage of the Massive Resistance Movement and Civil Rights Movement in Virginia.
Date of Original:: 1951/1971
Contributing Institution:: University of Virginia. Library

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Television news of the civil rights era, 1950-1970

Description:: Television news footage, oral histories, and instructional materials describing the Civil Rights movement in Virginia from the 1950s to 1970.
Date of Original:: 1950/1970
Contributing Institution:: University of Virginia. Virginia Center for Digital History

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Goochland County Rosenwald Schools oral history project, 2013-2015

Description:: The purpose of the project is to document education in Goochland County, Virginia, particularly the impact of the Rosenwald Schools, and the differences between the education offered to white and black students during the period the Rosenwald Schools operated.
Date of Original:: 1922/2014
Contributing Institution:: James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives

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Behind the veil

Description:: History of African American life during the age of Jim Crow, roughly the period from the 1890s to the 1950s.
Date of Original:: 1890/1959
Contributing Institution:: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

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Lift every voice : music in American life

Description:
Date of Original:: 1700/2000
Contributing Institution:: University of Virginia. Library