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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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Description:: Photographs and a scrapbook belonging to Sidna Brower Mitchell, editor of The Mississippian, the University of Mississippi's student newspaper documenting the university's integration in 1962
Date of Original:: 1962
Contributing Institution:: John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

Description:: This collection consists of records generated by Eliza Paschall and the Atlanta Community Relations Commission (ACRC) during her year as Executive Director of the ACRC.
Date of Original:: 1960/1970
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Description:: Collection of interviews and news broadcasts covering Martin Luther King's assassination, the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, and other civil rights related news and events. Audio collected by the Memphis Search for Meaning Committee from 1968-1973.
Date of Original:: 1960/1973
Contributing Institution:: Rhodes College

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:: Correspondence and pamphlet of Edwin Dalstrom, Memphis Urban League chair in 1958
Date of Original:: 1958/1959
Contributing Institution:: University of Memphis. Libraries. Special Collections Department

Description:: Footage of the Highlander Folks School anniversary celebration in 1957 and the subsequent broadside produced by the pro-segregation Georgia Commission on Education.
Date of Original:: 1957
Contributing Institution:: Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

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:: Black-and-white photographs from the Knoxville Journal of the 1956 school integration efforts in Clinton, Tennessee
Date of Original:: 1956
Contributing Institution:: McClung Historical Collection

Description:: The Negro Travelers' Green Book series was published by Victor H. Green as a resource for African American travelers; the information provided in the travel guide enabled African Americans to find safe and welcoming dining and lodging accommodations during the days of segregation.
Date of Original:: 1956
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

Description:: Collection of scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and photographs documenting desegregation and sit-ins in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Date of Original:: 1955/1980
Contributing Institution:: University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Description:: The Local Television News Collections at Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) comprise approximately 1.5 million feet of 16mm motion picture film outtakes dating from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, donated by several South Carolina television stations. These outtakes document over two decades of local people and events, as well as reportage surrounding significant moments in national and world news throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Paper holdings include teleprompter scripts from 1963 through 1979.
Date of Original:: 1955/1980
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

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