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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:: Oral history interviews of Atlanta's African American community conducted by Roberts, an Atlanta University student, in the summer of 1973
Date of Original:: 1973
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Description:: Oral history interviews with African American pioneers and their descendants throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.
Date of Original:: 1972/1974
Contributing Institution:: Washington State University. Library. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections

Description:: Georgia-related oral histories from the Southern Oral History Program.
Date of Original:: 1972/2006
Contributing Institution:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library

Description:: Civil rights related oral histories from the collections of the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina.
Date of Original:: 1972/2014
Contributing Institution:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

Description:: Civil rights-related digital interviews, music, and lectures from the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies.
Date of Original:: 1970/2020
Contributing Institution:: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies

Description:: Interviews (available as audio files and transcriptions), mostly conducted in the late 1970s, that document the many aspects of life in Louisville, particularly as experienced by African Americans.
Date of Original:: 1970/1979
Contributing Institution:: University of Louisville. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections

Description:: Records of the investigation of Martin Luther King's assassination in Memphis, Tennessee
Date of Original:: 1968
Contributing Institution:: Shelby County (Tenn.). Register of Deeds

Description:: The University of Washington Special Collections began collecting oral histories in the 1960s as part of an effort to document the history and culture of our regional ethnic communities. Forging partnerships with local organizations, oral historians recorded interviews with members of the Scandinavian American, African American, Japanese American, and Jewish communities in Seattle and Washington State.
Date of Original:: 1968/2015
Contributing Institution:: University of Washington. Libraries. Special Collections Division

Description:: Forty-nine recording of Duke University students vigil after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and of the Afro-American Society student-lead occupation of the Allen Building in 1969.
Date of Original:: 1968/1969
Contributing Institution:: Duke University. Library

Description:: Stories gathered to commemorate the summer of 1967 in Detroit.
Date of Original:: 1967/2019
Contributing Institution:: Detroit Historical Society

Description:: This digital collection consists of select interviews digitized from the Laurraine Goreau collection, HJA-059, of the Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz, a division of Tulane University Special Collections. The audio interviews were digitized with a 2019 Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library & Information Resources (CLIR).
Date of Original:: 1967/2020
Contributing Institution:: Tulane University. Special Collections

Description:: Audio recording of 1966 speech by Robert F. Kennedy at the University of Mississippi
Date of Original:: 1966-03-18
Contributing Institution:: John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

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