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Clear All State Tennessee

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:: 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:: 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:: Southern School News is the official publication of the Southern Education Reporting Service, an objective, fact-finding agency established by southern newspaper editors and educators with the aim of providing accurate, unbiased information to school administrators, public officials and interested lay citizens on developments in education arising from the U.S. Supreme Court opinion of May 17, 1954 declaring segregation in the schools unconstitutional.
Date of Original:: 1954/1965
Contributing Institution:: University of Georgia. Libraries

Description:: Issues dating from 1950 to 1970 of the Memphis-based, African American newspaper, the Memphis World.
Date of Original:: 1950/1970
Contributing Institution:: Rhodes College

Description:: Documents related to judge and civil rights activist Russell B. Sugarmon.
Date of Original:: 1950
Contributing Institution:: Rhodes College

Description:: 1946 monograph by the Southern Conference on Human Welfare about a race-related incident in Columbia, Tennessee
Date of Original:: 1946
Contributing Institution:: University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections

Description:: Collection documenting the civil rights activism of Marian Bruce Logan.
Date of Original:: 1945/1989
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

Description:: Oral histories, records, and black-and-white photographs related to the Civil Rights movement in Nashville, Tennessee.
Date of Original:: 1940/2006
Contributing Institution:: Nashville Public Library
Nashville Public Library (Tenn.). Special Collections Division

Description:: The Wisconsin Historical Society presents a collection of Wisconsin historical images from the 19th and 20th centuries. The images include photographs, paintings, and posters. Users may search the images by keyword or by category. The categories include children, crime, ethnic groups, health, immigration and emigration, war, women, rites and ceremonies, and Indians of North America.
Date of Original:: 1940/1973
Contributing Institution:: Wisconsin Historical Society

Description:: The James W. Silver Digital Collection contains news clippings and pamphlets that document the controversy surrounding Silver’s publicly-expressed support for ending segregation, particularly after the publication of Mississippi: The Closed Society.
Date of Original:: 1928/1986
Contributing Institution:: John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

Description:: The American Baptist College collection is comprised of yearbooks, catalogues, bulletins, Garnett-Narbrit Lecture series programs, photographs, and audio visual assets ranging from 1924 to present, demonstrating it's rich history commitment to students' success.
Date of Original:: 1924/9999
Contributing Institution:: Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Library Alliance

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