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This Web site presents information relating to journalists who reported on the civil rights movement in the American South and includes a timeline (1941-1973), information on the reporters, and civil rights resources. The site is a companion to the two-volume Reporting Civil Rights by the Library of America which collects contemporary articles and essays about the movement.The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Civil Rights
  3. Civil Rights Movements
  4. Reporters And Reporting
  5. Southern States

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