The emphasis of the collection is on the desegregation of public schools, especially in the South after the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision of May 17, 1954. The collection, however, contains substantial material on other realms of racial discrimination, including the segregation of restaurants and other public facilities, sit-ins by students protesting this policy, the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott started by Rosa Parks and championed by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1955, discrimination in employment (including federal civilian departments and the armed services), discrimination in housing, and acts of violence against black citizens. The collection also contains documents on discrimination affecting other groups, including Indians, Jews, and Asians, as well as documentation of the efforts by states and localities to obtain federal funding for greatly needed school facilities construction.
"The emphasis of the collection is on the desegregation of public schools, especially in the South after the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision of May 17, 1954. The collection, however, contains substantial material on other realms of racial discrimination, including the segregation of restaurants and other public facilities, sit-ins by students protesting this policy, the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott started by Rosa Parks and championed by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1955, discrimination in employment (including federal civilian departments and the armed services), discrimination in housing, and acts of violence against black citizens. The collection also contains documents on discrimination affecting other groups, including Indians, Jews, and Asians, as well as documentation of the efforts by states and localities to obtain federal funding for greatly needed school facilities construction."@en
"The collection includes important material about, or written or spoken by, such key civil rights-era figures as President Dwight D. Eisenhower; Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice Felix Frankfurter; Attorney General Herbert Brownell; senators Everett M. Dirksen, John L. McClellan, John Sparkman, John Stennis, Herman E. Talmadge, and Strom Thurmond; Arkansas Governor Orval E. Faubus and Virginia Governor James L. Almond Jr.; federal judges Ronald N. Davies and Harry J. Lemley; anti-integration agitators Frederick J. Kasper and Jimmy Karam; civil rights leaders Daisy Bates, Wiley Branton, Thurgood Marshall, Mike Masaoka, Clarence Mitchell, Martin Luther King Jr., Roy Wilkins, and Adam Clayton Powell Jr.; prominent citizens such as Louis Armstrong, Ralph Bunche, Roberta Church, William Faulkner, Harry Emerson Fosdick, and Jackie Robinson; black students at integrated schools, including Ruby Bridges, Minnijean Brown, Ernest Green, and Autherine Lucy; Tennessee school principal D. J. Brittain Jr.; violence victims Lynda Faye Kuykendall, George W. Lee, Emmitt Till, and Carlotta Walls; and journalists David Lawrence, Ralph McGill, Westbrook Pegler, and Walter Winchell."--vendor website."@en
""This collection brings together a large amount of material on the civil rights issues, events, and personalities that rose to prominence during the 1953-1961 presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, a critical period in the history of the civil rights movement in the United States."@en
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