Tagged: Girard College

“Civil Rights in a Northern City:” Temple University Debuts New Online Archive

March 1, 2012

The online collection includes more than 1,500 items including newsreel footage of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that previously has not publicly available.

Temple University’s New Website Documents the Civil Rights Struggle in Philadelphia

November 24, 2011

The website devotes much of its attention to the desegregation of Girard College in Philadelphia and the Columbia Avenue riots of 1964.

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