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Abstract: Civil Rights Oral History Project, is an ongoing effort documenting more than 100 oral history interviews with local and nationally distinguished participants on topics such as the 1960 Nashville student lunch counter sit-in movement, the formation of civil rights organizations such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Highlander...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant Angeline Emma Butler, conducted on 21 and 30 March 2005 by Rachel Lawson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. During the ca. 2 hour and 30 minute interview, Butler discusses such topics as her family and growing up in segregated South Carolina; her education, particularly studying music and attending Fisk University;...
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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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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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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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