Documents and realia from the collections of the Gilder Lehrman Institute documenting African Americans from the discovery of America through the Civil Rights movement.
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Historically significant photographs of people, places, and structures from Georgia's past from the Vanishing Georgia Collection at the Georgia Archives.
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Volunteer Voices provides access to digitized primary sources documenting the history and culture of Tennessee. Significant events from Civil Rights Movement are presented in this collection from the perspective of Tennesseans.
Materials belonging to African American educator, journalist, and reformer Charles N. Hunter from Raleigh, North Carolina that discuss and illuminate the problems experienced by emancipated African Americans during Reconstruction and into the early 20th century, encompassing agriculture, business, race relations, reconstruction, education, politics, voting rights, and economic improvement.
Georgia State University's Southern Labor Archives, established in 1971, is dedicated to collecting, preserving and making available the documentary heritage of Southern workers and their unions, as well as that of workers and unions having a historic relationship to the region.
Papers of Durham, North Carolina civic leader Rencher Nicholas Harris, the first African American city councilman in Durham, and the first African American man to sit on the Durham County Board of Education; Harris' service to Durham spanned the period following the Brown school desegregation decision of 1954 and continued throughout the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Images that document the people, events, and places important in the history of the historically Black university, University of the District of Columbia, and its predecessor institutions Miner Normal School, Miner Teachers College, Wilson Normal School, Wilson Teachers College DC Teachers College, Federal City College, Washington Technical Institute, Antioch School of Law, DC School of Law, as well as the University of the District of Columbia.
Photographs of Atlanta University before its consolidation with Clark College, containing photographs dating from 1858 to 1995, with the bulk of the material falling between 1905 and 1968.
Late nineteenth and mid-twentieth century manuscript collections that document the historical development of education for African Americans, primarily in the South.