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Abstract: Comprised of original newsreel, video and audio tapes, recordings of freedom and protest songs along with recorded sermons and speeches. These materials were donated or purchased through the Robin and Bill King Foundation and are part of the Civil Rights Collection of the Nashville Public Library Special Collections Division. Individual recordings are cataloged separately.
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Abstract: Consisting of rare and unique items that give historical sketches of race relations in the south, civil rights, school integration, segregation, race riots, economic discrepancy among southern African Americans and civil rights legislation. Materials in the collection were donated or purchased through the Robin and Bill King Foundation and are part of the Civil Rights Collection of the Nashville Public Library Special Collections Division....
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Civil Rights - Special Collection Topics
Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Nashville Banner - Special Collections Topics
Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Nashville Banner - Special Collections Topics
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Scope and content:The Jack Gunter Civil Rights Photographs feature 87 original black and white photographs taken by Nashville Banner newspaper photographer Jack Gunter from 1957 to 1968. The photographs are arranged chronologically. Undated photographs follow at the end. The bulk of the collection is from 1963 and depicts civil rights demonstrations in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Also included in the collection are single photographs of visiting...
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Scope and content: The documentary collection consists of primary and secondary sources about the African American Civil Rights Movement, with information about key events, participants, and reform movements aimed at abolishing public and private acts of racial discrimination against African Americans. The collection documents Nashville's role, including information about the Nashville student sit-in movement and the students from Fisk and Tennessee...
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