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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
King -Martin	Records with the name King but not the name Martin
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Description:: Brown versus the Board of Education materials highlighting the Supreme Court cases; busing and school integration efforts in northern urban areas; school integration in the Ann Arbor Public School District; and recent resegregation trends in American schools.
Date of Original:: 1897/9999
Contributing Institution:: University of Michigan. Library

Description:: Materials that document race relations and desegregation in Georgia from the late nineteenth century to the latter half of the twentieth century.
Date of Original:: 1894/1962
Contributing Institution:: Valdosta State University. Odum Library. Archives and Special Collections

Description:: Black-and-white photographs dating from 1893 to 1975 of the career of Atlanta police chief Herbert T. Jenkins including images of African American police officers and the Summerhill riots in 1966.
Date of Original:: 1893/1975
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta History Center

Description:: Eugene Avery Adams (1886-1958) was a minister in the African American Episcopal Church and a leader in the fields of education, civil rights, and business.
Date of Original:: 1892/1968
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

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

Description:: Records documenting the process of desegregation and other events relating to racial issues at Emory including documents summarizing the process of integration; copies of various statements issued by Emory faculty and students; a copy of the Petition for Declaratory Judgment and Injunction to the Superior Court of DeKalb County; accounts of activities surrounding campus racial protests that occurred in 1969 (print and audio); and information concerning more recent events that took place in the 1990s.
Date of Original:: 1877/1995
Contributing Institution:: Emory University
Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library

Description:: This collection consists of material from the archives at Trenholm State Community College Montgomery, Alabama.
Date of Original:: 1875/2008
Contributing Institution:: H. Councill Trenholm State Technical College

Description:: Selected highlights of the ethnic collections from leading repositories in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington
Date of Original:: 1869/1986
Contributing Institution:: Washington State University. Vancouver Information Services
Oregon Historical Society
Idaho State Historical Society
Washington State Historical Society
Washington State University
Clark County Historical Museum

Description:: The Indianapolis School Board of Commissioners voted on a plan to create a segregated high school in 1922 and Crispus Attucks High School opened in 1927 with an enrollment of 1,345 African American students. In addition to its famous 1955 state championship basketball team, Attucks produced many well-known alumni in several professional fields. Attucks flourished as both an academic institution and center for the African American community, and was simultaneously linked with the struggle for civil rights in education. This collection contains photographs and documents relating to the school and its history.
Date of Original:: 1869/2016
Contributing Institution:: Indiana Historical Society

Description:: The Digital Collection of the Robert W. Woodruff Library consists of photographic images and publications from the Archives and Special Collections Department documenting the early history of the Atlanta University Center (AUC) institutions. These "founding documents" encompass pictures of AUC member institution presidents, faculty, students, alumni, earliest buildings, and an electronically searchable text of the Atlanta University Bulletin dating from 1883 to 1910.
Date of Original:: 1869/2004
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Description:: Photographs dating between 1868 and 2002 collected by Savannah civil rights leader W.W. Law. and his mother Geneva.
Date of Original:: 1868/2002
Contributing Institution:: City of Savannah Municipal Archives

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