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Contributing Institution Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

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1. The Civil Rights movement: Evaluating Lyndon B. Johnson's character and efforts during the civil rights era

Date of Original:: 1969-04
Collection:: For Educators
Contributing Institution:: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

2. I am a man

Date of Original:: 1968-04-04
Collection:: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: The Collection
Contributing Institution:: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

3. The Civil Rights movement: The promise of democracy; JFK's radio and television report to the American people on civil rights, June 11, 1963

Date of Original:: 1963-06
Collection:: For Educators
Contributing Institution:: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

4. Letter to Pamela Martin

Creator:: Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998
Date of Original:: 1963/1964
Collection:: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: The Collection
Contributing Institution:: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

5. Report to President John F. Kennedy regarding civil rights

Creator:: Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Date of Original:: 1962
Collection:: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: The Collection
Contributing Institution:: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

6. Don't buy a Ford ever again

Creator:: Citizens' Council of Greater New Orleans
Date of Original:: 1960
Collection:: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: The Collection
Contributing Institution:: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

7. The Civil Rights movement: First day of integration at Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas; photo and first-hand account from Elizabeth Eckford's perspective

Date of Original:: 1957/1962
Collection:: For Educators
Contributing Institution:: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

8. Brown v. Topeka Board of Education

Creator:: Warren, Earl, 1891-1974
Date of Original:: 1954
Collection:: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: The Collection
Contributing Institution:: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

9. The race problem, as it respects colored people and the Christian Church, in the light of the developments of the last year

Creator:: Grimké, Francis J. (Francis James), 1850-1937
Date of Original:: 1919-12-27
Collection:: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: The Collection
Contributing Institution:: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

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History now; American history online : The Civil Rights movement

Date of Original:: 1900/1990
Contributing Institution:: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

11. History now; Interactive history : Songs of the civil rights movement

Date of Original:: 1900/1990
Collection:: History Now; American History Online: The Civil Rights Movement
Contributing Institution:: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

12. Emancipation Proclamation

Creator:: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Date of Original:: 1863-01-01
Collection:: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: The Collection
Contributing Institution:: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History