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Manuscript

"Those Segregated Blues" Sheet Music

Date: 1960
Description: Front page of sheet music to "Those Segregated Blues" words and music written by Milt Klamen. A song written about segregation and equal rights for all.
Photograph

Frame 30: Man Learning to Read and Write

Date: 1964
Description: A man is seated at a desk, writing and smoking a cigarette.
Photograph

Frame 34: Woman Signing Up - Freedom Registration

Date: 1964
Description: A woman in the foreground writes on a pad while a young woman looks on from a doorway.
Historical Object

Threatening Note signed "KKK"

Date: 1957
Description: Threatening note written on a matchbook, signed "K.K.K." (Ku Klux Klan) that was thrown through Daisy Bates' window in August 1957 with a rock and rag. The...
Manuscript

Letter From Rosa Parks — Page 1

Date: 06 02 1959
Description: The first page of a two page letter written by Rosa Parks to Septima Clark.
Manuscript

Letter From Rosa Parks — Page 2

Date: 06 02 1959
Description: The second page of a two page letter written by Rosa Parks to Septima Clark.

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