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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
Selma AND (Lewis OR Williams)	Records containing the words Selma and Lewis or Selma and Williams

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:: The LeMoyne-Owen Collection consists of reflections written by students enrolled in Professor Michael P. Johnson’s History 202 and 204 classes at LeMoyne-Owen College in the spring of 1968.
Date of Original:: 1968-03-28
Contributing Institution:: Rhodes College

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:: The Maynard Jackson mayoral administrative records consist of materials spanning the years 1968 to 1994, including photographs, general correspondence, mayoral campaign materials, and printed and published materials and correspondence related to the Atlanta Child Murders.
Date of Original:: 1968/1994
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Description:: Black-and-white photographs from the Memphis Press-Scimitar depicting the 1968 strike of the Memphis city sanitation workers.
Date of Original:: 1968
Contributing Institution:: University of Memphis. Libraries. Special Collections Department

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:: Collection of correspondence, by-laws, meeting agendas and minutes, budgets, articles of incorporation belonging to this non-profit, interracial organization founded in Durham, N.C. in September 1968.
Date of Original:: 1968/1998
Contributing Institution:: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Description:: In the late 1960s during a time of racial disparity and heightened tensions, this community bulletin gently insists upon justice. The authors alternately seek to encourage and to unite people of color in Abilene by providing encouraging stories and histories of well-known people of color.
Date of Original:: 1967/1968
Contributing Institution:: University of North Texas. Libraries

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

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