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subject : African Americans--Civil Rights--United States
newspaper clipping
Topics covered: Civil rights violations; bus segregation ordered halted by Interstate Commerce Commission; Montgomery bus boycott; attempts at school desegregation; Supreme Court rules bus segregation
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Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1950; 1951; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959
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: Georgia "White Supremacy" Bill; Truman Civil Rights proposals; Southern reaction to Truman proposals; Shuttlesworth leads fight in Birmingham, Alabama; MacArthur speech to Congress; Ei
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Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1945; 1946; 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957
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: arrival of Poor People's Mule Train in Washington, D, C; Supreme Court upholds 1866 civil rights law; "Resurrection City" leaders are jailed; violence in Washington, D. C. These scrap
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Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1968; 1969
Newspaper clippings compiled by the staff of the Birmingham Public Library’s Southern History Department on King’s civil rights activities
Birmingha Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969
newspaper clipping
Topics covered: Shuttlesworth sues Birmingham for integration of schools and parks; Civil Rights Commission demands voting records of several counties; George Wallace defiance; President Eisenhower's
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Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1958; 1959; 1960
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: jury trials voted into rights bill; civil rights bill approved; Georgia defies federal integration policy; Little Rock, Arkansas asks halt to integration; W. Wilson White to head Civil
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Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1957; 1958; 1959
newspaper clipping
Topics covered: Supreme Court upholds Civil Rights Commission hearings; Montgomery County ordered to release voting records; Mobile ordered to integrate municipal golf course; Macon County ordered to
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Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1960; 1961
newspaper clipping
Topics covered: Governor John Patterson of Alabama warns Congress on civil rights; Atlanta, Georgia ordered to form integration plan; racial violence in Little Rock, Arkansas; peaceful integration in
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Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1959; 1960
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: Sit-in at Talladega; integration of Birmingham airport restaurant ordered; Montgomery Public Library desegregated; military reserve units to integrate; Birmingham voters registration;
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Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1962; 1963
newspaper clipping
Topics covered: Sit-ins, demonstrations continue throughout the South; Supreme Court defeats injunctions against Civil Rights Commission; New Orleans, Louisiana defies integration; racial violence in
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Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1960; 1961
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: Rioting and looting in Birmingham; President Kennedy and Governor Wallace confer; Gadsden marches; State Police sent to Birmingham; white mob attacks black ministers at Anniston. The
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Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1963; 1964; 1965
newspaper clipping
Topics covered: mob violence at Marion; Wallace bans nighttime racial demonstrations in Dallas and Perry Counties; civil rights compliance forms signed by several state officials; violence in Montgome
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Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1965;
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
newspaper clipping
Topics covered: Civil Rights bill of 1963; Chicago Freedom March; Baltimore, Maryland rally at Gwynn Oak; Jefferson County Board of Registrars suit filed by Justice Department; Washington March. Thes
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Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1963; 1964
newspaper clipping
Topics covered: Senator Lister Hill's speech; NAACP boycott of Jacksonville, Florida stores; mother of Massachusetts governor jailed in Florida; Nashville, Tennessee demonstration; Civil Rights bill t
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Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
1964
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