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“Montgomery Bus Boycott”	Records that have the exact phrase Montgomery Bus Boycott
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1. Brown v. Board : five communities that changed America

Date of Original:: 2003/2018
Collection:: Teaching with Historic Places
Contributing Institution:: United States. National Park Service

2. From Canterbury to Little Rock : the struggle for educational equality for African Americans

Date of Original:: 2003/2018
Collection:: Teaching with Historic Places
Contributing Institution:: United States. National Park Service

3. Iron Hill School : an African-American one-room school

Date of Original:: 2003/2018
Collection:: Teaching with Historic Places
Contributing Institution:: United States. National Park Service

4. New Kent School and the George W. Watkins School : from freedom of choice to integration

Date of Original:: 2003/2018
Collection:: Teaching with Historic Places
Contributing Institution:: United States. National Park Service

5. The Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March : Shaking the Conscience of the Nation

Date of Original:: 2003/2018
Collection:: Teaching with Historic Places
Contributing Institution:: United States. National Park Service

6. Amistad Digital Resource for Teaching African American History

Date of Original:: 1954/1975
Collection:: Amistad Digital Resource for Teaching African American History
Contributing Institution:: Columbia Center for Digital Research and Scholarship

7. Chicago's black metropolis : understanding history through a historic place

Date of Original:: 1900/1929
Collection:: Teaching with Historic Places
Contributing Institution:: United States. National Park Service