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Event University of Alabama Integration Contributing Institution Library of Congress

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1. Governor George Wallace attempting to block integration at the University of Alabama

Creator:: Leffler, Warren K.
Date of Original:: 1963-06-11
Collection:: Voices of Civil Rights
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

2. Telegram. NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins to Herbert Brownell concerning the expulsion of Autherine Lucy, February 7, 1956

Creator:: Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981
Date of Original:: 1956-02-07
Collection:: With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress