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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
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Event Brown versus Board of Education State Virginia

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1. Brown I and Brown II

Creator:: Library of Congress
Virginia. Dept. of Historic Resources
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Date of Original:: 2004
Collection:: Civil Rights Movement in Virginia : An Exhibition on Display February 7 - June 19, 2004
Contributing Institution:: Virginia Historical Society

2. 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

3. 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

4. Oral history interview with Helen Singleton, 2001

Creator:: Singleton, Helen, 1932-
Date of Original:: 2001
Collection:: Freedom Riders' 40th Anniversary Oral History Project, 2001
Contributing Institution:: John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

5. WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Governor Ernest Vandiver commenting on the actions of Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the Prince Edward County school case, Atlanta, Georgia, 1961 May 9

Creator:: WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 1961-05-09
Collection:: WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

6. Dorothy E. Davis, et al. v. County School Board of Prince Edward County et al.

Date of Original:: 1950/1979
Collection:: Civil Case Files (U.S. District Court for the Richmond Division of the Eastern District of Virginia)
Contributing Institution:: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. National Archives at Philadelphia