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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
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Clear All Subject Race relations State Alabama

Description:: Free, online reference resource on Alabama's history, culture, geography, and natural environment.
Date of Original:: 2018
Contributing Institution:: Encyclopedia of Alabama (Project)

Description:: Short film, biographies, timeline, and newspaper articles about the Montgomery bus boycott.
Date of Original:: 2005
Contributing Institution:: Montgomery Advertiser (Firm)

Description:: H. Councill Trenholm State Technical College Collections Online features online descriptions to key collections belonging to Trenholm State's Division of Institutional Archives and Special Collections of Montgomery's Pioneer Voting Rights Activists; selected collections described at this site cover significant events in Alabama's voting rights movement, as well as materials about prominent Montgomery, Alabama-area African American civil rights workers, elected officials, and educators.
Date of Original:: 2000
Contributing Institution:: H. Councill Trenholm State Technical College

Description:: Interviews (available as audio files), many of which were conducted in the 1970s and 1980s, that document the lives of political and civic leaders, civil rights in Alabama, ethnic history of Alabama, folk history of Alabama, labor history of Alabama, history of Alabama women, historic Alabama communities, Alabama refugee experiences, and history of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Date of Original:: 1970/1990
Contributing Institution:: Mervyn H. Sterne Library

Description:: Letter about the Selma-Montgomery March, letter about the preservation of the Lorraine Motel, and a pamphlet about the history of the NAACP.
Date of Original:: 1965
Contributing Institution:: Memphis Public Library. Memphis and Shelby County Room

Description:: N.A.A.C.P. card and reprinting of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham City Jail from the family of Memphis African American businessman, Robert R. Church.
Date of Original:: 1959/1963
Contributing Institution:: University of Memphis. Libraries. Special Collections Department

Description:: Online exhibit on the Montgomery bus boycott featuring photographs and other documents.
Date of Original:: 1955/1956
Contributing Institution:: IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law

Description:: Multimedia resource for secondary school teachers to enhance their knowledge and ability in teaching African American history.
Date of Original:: 1954/1975
Contributing Institution:: Columbia Center for Digital Research and Scholarship

Description:: Transcripts of the interviews used as the basis of "Eyes on the Prize."
Date of Original:: 1954/1965
Contributing Institution:: Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). Libraries. Special Collections. Film & Media Archive

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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