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Description:: Research materials gathered by Professor Davis Houck and COM3930 students on the Emmett Till murder case and related events, including news clippings and government records.
Date of Original:: 1908/2015
Contributing Institution:: Florida State University Libraries. Special Collections

Description:: A collection of photographs of the architecture, businesses, and people of Birmingham. Included in the collection are portraits of prominent historical figures and photographs that document the civil rights movement in the city.
Date of Original:: 1908/1966
Contributing Institution:: Birmingham Public Library (Ala.)

Description:: Selections from the collections of Wake County, North Carolina's first African American librarian, Mollie Huston Lee.
Date of Original:: 1907/1982
Contributing Institution:: Richard B. Harrison Library (Raleigh, N.C.)

Description:: The I.S. Leevy collection contains a biography, newspaper clippings, personal correspondence and ephemera, and multiple school notebooks from Isaac Samuel Leevy’s time at Hampton Institute (Hampton Junior School) in Hampton, Virginia.
Date of Original:: 1905/1973
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library
University of South Carolina. Libraries

Description:: Documents from the Papers of Robert E. McNair at South Carolina Political Collections
Date of Original:: 1905/1989
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

Description:: Photographs from 1904 to 2000 documenting portraiture, family, research, and events participated in by African American scholar and minister C. Eric Lincoln.
Date of Original:: 1904/2000
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

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

Description:: Building the African-American Community is a collection of photographs and texts largely from the Jacob Fontaine Religious Museum, dedicated to preserving the African-American cultural history of Austin, Texas.
Date of Original:: 1900/1985
Contributing Institution:: Jacob Fontaine Religious Museum
Marfa Public Library (Marfa, Tex.)

Description:: Selected photographs from the Indianapolis Recorder, Indiana's longest continuously-operated African American newspaper.
Date of Original:: 1900/1987
Contributing Institution:: Indiana Historical Society

Description:: Images providing an overview the early years of Tennessee State University, a historically Black university founded in 1912 as the State Normal School for Negroes.
Date of Original:: 1900/1984
Contributing Institution:: Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Library Alliance

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