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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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Description:: Civil rights-related videos from the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies.
Date of Original:: 1957/2018
Contributing Institution:: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies

Description:: Eisenhower administration records related to the Civil Rights Act of 1957
Date of Original:: 1957
Contributing Institution:: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

Description:: Eisenhower administration records on the integration of Central High School in Little Rock.
Date of Original:: 1957/1958
Contributing Institution:: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

Description:: Color photographs taken from 1957 to 1992 by Floyd Jillson, staff photographer for the Atlanta Constitution-Journal Magazine, of metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia-related sporting events, and Georgia political figures such as Jimmy Carter, Andrew Young, and Sam Nunn.
Date of Original:: 1957/1992
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta History Center

Description:: Footage of the Highlander Folks School anniversary celebration in 1957 and the subsequent broadside produced by the pro-segregation Georgia Commission on Education.
Date of Original:: 1957
Contributing Institution:: Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

Description:: Explore the Museum’s vast and diverse collection of prints and photographic materials. Dating from the late 18th century to the present, this material comprises the single largest source of pictorial information for the Chicago metropolitan area.
Date of Original:: 1957/1968
Contributing Institution:: Chicago History Museum

Description:: The selected black-and-white photographs feature demonstrations in St. Paul and Minneapolis in 1960 and 1968.
Date of Original:: 1957/1968
Contributing Institution:: Minnesota Historical Society

Description:: Mug shots of civil rights workers arrested in Montgomery, Alabama on February 21, 1956 and on May 25, 1961.
Date of Original:: 1956-02-21
1961-05-25
Contributing Institution:: Montgomery County (Ala.). Archives

Description:: This collection contains more than 3 million negatives taken by newspaper photographers working for the Birmingham News, the Huntsville Times, and Mobile’s Press-Register between the 1920s and the early 2000s (mostly from the 1960s to the 1990s).
Date of Original:: 1956/1991
Contributing Institution:: Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Description:: Civil rights-related correspondence of Senator Albert Gore, Sr. from 1956 to 1968
Date of Original:: 1956/1968
Contributing Institution:: Albert Gore Research Center (Murfreesboro, Tenn.)

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:: Black-and-white photographs of Autherine Lucy, the first African American student admitted to the University of Alabama, enrolling at The University of Alabama in February 1956.
Date of Original:: 1956
Contributing Institution:: William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library
Sensitive Content:: Material contained in The University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections may negatively depict race, gender, religious beliefs, ethnicities, and class. The University of Alabama Libraries does not endorse the views expressed in these materials. We present our collections as they were originally created to promote scholarly research and analysis.

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