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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:: John James Herrera (1910-1986), a lawyer and leading civil rights advocate for Mexican Americans, played a role in key cases that ultimately established that separate schools for Mexican American children were illegal and that the systematic exclusion of Spanish-speaking citizens from service on juries was unconstitutional.
Date of Original:: 1930/1987
Contributing Institution:: University of North Texas. Libraries

Description:: A selection of black-and-white photographs of the Civil Rights movement in Louisiana, 1960s.
Date of Original:: 1930/1979
Contributing Institution:: State Library of Louisiana

Description:: South Carolina Council on Human Relations (SCCHR) played a key role in fostering better living and social conditions for African Americans and promoting racial harmony within South Carolina and the South generally. Its archives document the movement for civil rights within South Carolina during the twentieth century.
Date of Original:: 1930/1975
Contributing Institution:: University of South Carolina. Libraries
Sensitive Content:: This collection contains a great deal of historical information, and in some documents you will find racial slurs. The University of South Carolina Libraries does not promote or endorse these slurs, but instead looks to provide unedited historical documents about the civil rights movement in South Carolina.

Description:: Collected moving image footage of Savannah, Georgia community leader and civil rights worker W. W. Law.
Date of Original:: 1930/2000
Contributing Institution:: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

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Date of Original:: 1929/2003
Contributing Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

Description:: Web site for the Stanford University-based Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute which works in cooperation with the Martin Luther King, Jr. family to publish and preserve the speeches, writings, and correspondence of Martin Luther King
Date of Original:: 1929/2007
Contributing Institution:: Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project

Description:: Demographic information pertaining to the growth of the Fulton County, Georgia school system located in and around Atlanta between the years 1929 and 1977.
Date of Original:: 1929/1977
Contributing Institution:: Fulton County Schools Archive

Description:: Yearbooks and newspapers from Indianapolis' first segregated high school (1928-1986).
Date of Original:: 1928/1986
Contributing Institution:: Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis University Library

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:: Materials related to and produced by Parent Teacher organizations as they relate to or were found in the schools of Fulton County.
Date of Original:: 1927
Contributing Institution:: Fulton County Schools Archive

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Date of Original:: 1927/1971
Contributing Institution:: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections

Description:: Digital exhibition celebrating the centennial of The Pulitzer Prizes by featuring Pulitzer winners with ties to Georgia and featuring Pulitzer winning work that has promoted civil rights.
Date of Original:: 1925/2016
Contributing Institution:: Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
Georgia Archives
New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)

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