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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:: 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:: Civil rights related oral histories including primarily discussing events in the 1950s and 1960s.
Date of Original:: 1940/1970
Contributing Institution:: University of Southern Mississippi. Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage

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Date of Original:: 1940/1979
Contributing Institution:: South Carolina. Educational Television Commission

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Date of Original:: 1940/1989
Contributing Institution:: University of Miami. Library. Special Collections

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:: Programs, yearbooks, newspapers, and reports documenting Savannah State University, Georgia's oldest public historically black college or university, from 1939 to 2011.
Date of Original:: 1939/2011
Contributing Institution:: Asa H. Gordon Library (Savannah, Ga.)

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Date of Original:: 1939
Contributing Institution:: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections

Description:: Oral histories of American war veterans who served in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts, and civilians who served in their support.
Date of Original:: 1939/1991
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta History Center

Description:: Photographs of civil rights demonstrations in Vine City, the integration of Murphy High School, the Sibley Commission, and Atlanta-based civil rights leaders such as Julian Bond and Ralph Abernathy from 1938 to 1979.
Date of Original:: 1938/1979
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta History Center

Description:: Civil rights cases from U.S. District courts
Date of Original:: 1938/1995
Contributing Institution:: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Atlanta Branch

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Date of Original:: 1938/1998
Contributing Institution:: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. National Archives at Philadelphia
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Description:: Collection of more than 200 photographs from the Barbara C. Jordan Archives at Texas Southern University. Barbara Jordan was the first African American since Reconstruction to serve in the Texas State Senate. Jordan was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1972, and became the first African American to represent Texas in the House and the first African American woman from the South to be elected to Congress.
Date of Original:: 1936/1996
Contributing Institution:: Texas Southern University. Library

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