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1.
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Fairfield high school oral history collection

Description:
Interviews with the students and teachers of the segregated African-American high school in rural Fairfield County, South Carolina, which help to shed light not just on the experience of race and exclusion, but also on the texture of daily life in one of these caring communities.
Date of Original:
2017-10-26
Contributing Institution:
South Caroliniana Library

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Collection
Tom Crosby’s Rosenwald School oral history collection, 2006-2011

Description:
The Rosenwald Schools of South Carolina exhibit features as its center the forty-three oral history interviews forming the Tom Crosby Oral History Collection that describe the educational experiences of African Americans in South Carolina 1910s-1970s, most of whom attended Rosenwald schools and/or Allen University.
Date of Original:
2006/2011
Contributing Institution:
South Caroliniana Library

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Collection
Working lives oral history project

Description:
Funded by an NEH grant, this project focuses on black working class social history of Birmingham, Alabama prior to World War II.
Date of Original:
1983/1985
Contributing Institution:
William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library
Sensitive Content:
Material contained in The University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections may negatively depict race, gender, religious beliefs, ethnicities, and class. The University of Alabama Libraries does not endorse the views expressed in these materials. We present our collections as they were originally created to promote scholarly research and analysis.

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Collection
Tom Bevill oral histories

Description:
This collection consists of oral history audio recordings from 1995-2017 about the life and accomplishments of U.S. Representative Tom Bevill.
Date of Original:
1981/2017
Contributing Institution:
William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library
Sensitive Content:
Material contained in The University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections may negatively depict race, gender, religious beliefs, ethnicities, and class. The University of Alabama Libraries does not endorse the views expressed in these materials. We present our collections as they were originally created to promote scholarly research and analysis.

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Collection
Angela Davis ephemera collection

Description:
This collection includes a large number of hand-bills and flyers promoting events organized to either raise awareness of Angela Davis’s imprisonment or to collect funds to support her legal fund.
Date of Original:
1970/1987
Contributing Institution:
William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library
Sensitive Content:
Material contained in The University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections may negatively depict race, gender, religious beliefs, ethnicities, and class. The University of Alabama Libraries does not endorse the views expressed in these materials. We present our collections as they were originally created to promote scholarly research and analysis.

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Collection
AFL-CIO Southeast Division Civil Rights Department Records

Description:
Between 1973 and 1989, the Southeast Division made seven donations of materials to the GSU Southern Labor Archives. These include correspondence, print materials and publications by the AFL-CIO and other organizations, administrative records, photographs, and audio recordings, as well as the personal papers of E.T. Kehrer. 
Date of Original:
1949/1989
Contributing Institution:
Georgia State University. Special Collections

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Collection
Atlanta Urban League papers

Description:
The Atlanta Urban League (AUL) was established in 1920 as an affiliate of the National Urban League. The AUL served as an organization dedicated to addressing the social and economic concerns of African Americans in the city of Atlanta.
Date of Original:
1948/1964
Contributing Institution:
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

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Collection
The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection

Description:
The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection, 1946-2014, contains approximately 450 linear feet of personal papers, sermons, speeches, correspondence, SCLC and SCLC/WOMEN records, and hundreds of historical photographs and audiovisual records documenting the Lowery's struggle of justice and equality. The Lowery Trust granted sole ownership of the collection to Morehouse College in March 2021. Shortly thereafter, the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library was formally designated as custodian of the collection with responsibilities for housing and providing access for students, scholars, researchers, and the global community.
Date of Original:
1946/2014
Contributing Institution:
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

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Collection
Educational media photo collection

Description:
Educational Media Collection spans from 1963 to 1966 depicting different activities at the University of Alabama including homecoming activities, basketball and football games, beauty pageants, fraternity and sorority activities, coach Hank Crisp, coach Paul Bryant, president Rose on President's Day 1964, demonstrations against Wallace, 1966 Robert F. Kennedy's visit, Lady Bird Johnson at the University, Lurleen Wallace at the University for Governors Day, and department faculty members.
Date of Original:
1936/1968
Contributing Institution:
William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library
Sensitive Content:
Material contained in The University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections may negatively depict race, gender, religious beliefs, ethnicities, and class. The University of Alabama Libraries does not endorse the views expressed in these materials. We present our collections as they were originally created to promote scholarly research and analysis.

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Collection
Strom Thurmond collection, Mss 100

Description:
With a public service career spanning over 70 years, the speeches of Senator Strom Thurmond document the evolution of his thoughts, opinions, and philosophies in all of the public offices he held – State Senator, Circuit Judge, Governor, and U.S. Senator.
Date of Original:
1935/1960
Contributing Institution:
South Carolina Digital Library

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Collection
Tracy O'Neal photographic collection, 1923-1975

Description:
Over 1000 photographs documenting the history and social life of Atlanta, Georgia from 1923 to 1964, including weddings, sports events, portraits, local buildings, companies, the Atlanta labor community, and the Shriners Yaarab Temple, from the collections of Georgia State University's Special Collections
Date of Original:
1923/1964
Contributing Institution:
Georgia State University. Special Collections

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Collection
The scrapbooks

Description:
The Scrapbooks Collection is compiled of newspaper clippings covering different historical events in Alabama, Mississippi, and other states in the nation.
Date of Original:
1913/1995
Contributing Institution:
Birmingham Public Library (Ala.)

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Collection
Black trailblazers, leaders, activists, and intellectuals in Cleveland

Description:
Black Trailblazers, Leaders, Activists, and Intellectuals in Cleveland contains approximately 2000 images of 500 individuals selected from the photographs in the Cleveland Press Collection. The photographs in the collection generally date from the 1920s on, with most of them from 1960 to 1982 and are arranged alphabetically by the individual's last name. To be included in the collection, an individual had to be either born or raised in the greater Cleveland area or have lived a significant part of his/her life in the region.
Date of Original:
1912/1990
Contributing Institution:
Michael Schwartz Library

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Collection
Madam C.J. Walker

Description:
Records of Indianapolis-based African American entrepreneur and philanthropist Madam C. J. Walker.
Date of Original:
1910/1998
Contributing Institution:
Indiana Historical Society

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Collection
Neighborhood union collection

Description:
The records of the Neighborhood Union Collection include correspondence, speeches, financial reports, minutes, committee reports, news clippings, programs, photographs, scrapbooks and additional memorabilia preserving a rich legacy and history of one of the earliest private social welfare organizations founded by African American in Atlanta.
Date of Original:
1903/1936
Contributing Institution:
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

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Collection
John H. Wheeler collection

Description:
Items related to John H. Wheeler, who was heavily involved in politics and education through various positions within the federal government and on various boards of trustees for institutions like Morehouse College, Atlanta University, Lincoln Hospital, and the National Scholarship Service for Negro Students.
Date of Original:
1895/1973
Contributing Institution:
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

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Collection
Board of trustees

Description:
Since its beginnings in 1888, the Clemson University Board of Trustees is the main governing body for the university. As defined in Thomas Green Clemson’s will, the Board of Trustees consists of seven Trustees who select their successors and six Trustees who are appointed by the State Legislature. The Board’s main responsibility is to govern through establishment of policies that ensure academic quality and freedom, protect the University’s financial security, and ensure efficient and effective administration through the Board’s selected president and its executive officers.
Date of Original:
1890/1994
Contributing Institution:
South Carolina Digital Library

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Collection
African American lives

Description:
This digital collection consists of materials related to African American lives, emphasizing matters of education, politics, and labor.
Date of Original:
1882/2003
Contributing Institution:
William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library
Sensitive Content:
Material contained in The University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections may negatively depict race, gender, religious beliefs, ethnicities, and class. The University of Alabama Libraries does not endorse the views expressed in these materials. We present our collections as they were originally created to promote scholarly research and analysis.

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Collection
Emory University Desegregation Collection

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

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Collection
Southern Labor Archives

Description:
Georgia State University's Southern Labor Archives, established in 1971, is dedicated to collecting, preserving and making available the documentary heritage of Southern workers and their unions, as well as that of workers and unions having a historic relationship to the region.
Date of Original:
1850/2010
Contributing Institution:
Georgia State University. Special Collections

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Collection
African American history

Description:
This collection traces the history and culture of African Americans particularly in the Eastern North Carolina region.
Date of Original:
1728/2018
Contributing Institution:
J.Y. Joyner Library