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subject : African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi
newspaper clipping
Topics covered: segregation "watchdog" committee; Parker lynching; "Freedom Riders"; Philadelphia black church burned; voting registration disputes; James H. Meredith; contempt of
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Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1948; 1956; 1957; 1960; 1961; 1962
newspaper clipping
Topics covered: Justice Department files suits against Tennessee and Louisiana; civil rights murder case in Mississippi; Lester Maddox cafeteria goes out of business; President's Council on Equal Oppo
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Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1964; 1965; 1966
newspaper clipping
Topics covered: creation of Adult Education Program; new civil rights proposal; threats of national violence; Atlanta, Georgia violence; Grenada, Mississippi violence. These scrapbooks, compiled by
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Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1966; 1967; 1968
newspaper clipping
Topics covered: racial violence in Tennessee; Kentucky racial problems; W., Wilson White named assistant attorney general for civil rights; bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama ends; Texas defies integr
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Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1956; 1957
newspaper clipping
Topics covered: University of Mississippi rioting; mob threatens Meredith during second week of classes; federal injunction bars state from halting desegregation; Civil Rights Commission investigator
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Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966
newspaper clipping
Topics covered: Memphis to Jackson march; Philadelphia slayings reopened by Justice Department; eighteen charged with slayings; seven found guilty. These scrapbooks, compiled by librarians at the Bi
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Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1966; 1967; 1968
newspaper clipping
Topics covered: Abernathy and Shuttlesworth arrested in Montgomery; Greyhound Bus Terminal court case; federal court orders halt to Freedom Riders. These scrapbooks, compiled by librarians at the Bir
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Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1961; 1962
newspaper clipping
Topics covered: Freedom Riders assailed by MacDonald Gallion; U. S. Marshals ordered into Alabama; Freedom Riders linked to Communist Cuba; Civil Rights Commission extended for two year period; ICC or
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Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1961; 1962
newspaper clipping
Topics covered: "Reverse Freedom Riders"; Albany, Georgia racial violence; school desegregation continues throughout the South; Albany Prayer Vigil; federal judge orders University of Mississippi to a
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Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1962; 1963
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