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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
“Freedom Rides” AND Carter	Records containing the phrase “Freedom Rides” and the name Carter
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Clear All State Alabama

Description:: Oral histories dating from 1975 onwards from the collections of Columbus State University's Archives.
Date of Original:: 1975/9999
Contributing Institution:: Columbus State University. Archives

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:: Documents related to Memphis police chief and former F.B.I. agent Frank Holloman related to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Date of Original:: 1968-04
Contributing Institution:: Memphis Public Library. Memphis and Shelby County Room

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:: Papers of Memphis Mayor Edmund Orgill
Date of Original:: 1965
Contributing Institution:: Memphis Public Library. Memphis and Shelby County Room

Description:: Identification photographs of civil rights workers and members of white supremacy organizations distributed by the Alabama Department of Safety in 1965.
Date of Original:: 1965
Contributing Institution:: Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Description:: Identification photographs of civil rights workers and members of white supremacy organizations distributed by the Alabama Department of Safety in 1965.
Date of Original:: 1965
Contributing Institution:: Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Description:: James H. "Jim" Peppler, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was a staff photographer of the weekly paper, The Southern Courier, from May 1965 to mid-1968. During his three years working for the Southern Courier, Mr. Peppler took over 11,000 photographs documenting the civil rights movement, social conditions in central Alabama, the nightclub Laicos in Montgomery, and the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Date of Original:: 1965/1968
Contributing Institution:: Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Description:: Photographs of the integration of Auburn University in 1964 by Harold Franklin.
Date of Original:: 1964
Contributing Institution:: Auburn University. Library
Auburn University. Library. Special Collections and Archives

Description:: Newspaper clippings and photographs related to the 1963 bombing of Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and the subsequent investigation and trial
Date of Original:: 1963/1965
Contributing Institution:: Birmingham Public Library (Ala.)

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