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1. Melba Pattillo Beals

Date of Original:: 1955/1957
Collection:: Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection
Contributing Institution:: WGBH Educational Foundation

2. Reconsidering Brown

Date of Original:: 1955/1989
Collection:: Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection
Contributing Institution:: WGBH Educational Foundation

3. Miriam McClendon

Date of Original:: 1949/1965
Collection:: Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection
Contributing Institution:: WGBH Educational Foundation

4. Joe Dickson

Creator:: Dickson, Joe, 1933-
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, Ala.)
Date of Original:: 1933/1963
Collection:: Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection
Contributing Institution:: WGBH Educational Foundation

5. Mendez v. Westminster : desegregating California's schools

Date of Original:: 1848/1946
Collection:: Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection
Contributing Institution:: WGBH Educational Foundation

6. Rev. Frank Dukes : Selective Buying Campaign

Date of Original:: 193-/1962
Collection:: Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection
Contributing Institution:: WGBH Educational Foundation