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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:: Civil rights-related correspondence of Senator Albert Gore, Sr. from 1956 to 1968
Date of Original:: 1956/1968
Contributing Institution:: Albert Gore Research Center (Murfreesboro, Tenn.)

Description:: Selected Baldy editorial cartoons from the Atlanta Journal Constitution, covering the Civil Rights movement in Georgia and the rest of the South from 1953 to 1982.
Date of Original:: 1953/1980
Contributing Institution:: Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

Description:: The site features the role of journalists in the Civil Rights Movement.
Date of Original:: 1941/1973
Contributing Institution:: Library of America

Description:: Issue of History Now; American History Online focusing on the Civil Rights movement.
Date of Original:: 1900/1990
Contributing Institution:: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

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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