tws_oid28 oid28 tws yes Music and civil rights African Americans--Songs and music African American musicians--Tennessee--Memphis African American business enterprises--Tennessee--Memphis African American businesspeople--Tennessee--Memphis Music trade--United States Music teachers--Tennessee--Memphis African American singers--Tennessee--Memphis African Americans--Civil rights----Tennessee--Memphis Civil rights movements--Southern States Civil rights--Southern States African American civil rights workers--Tennessee--Memphis Race relations Memphis (Tenn.)--Race relations--History--20th century National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Race relations--Religious aspects Earth, Wind & Fire (Musical group) Music--Instruction and study--Tennessee--Memphis African Americans--Segregation--Tennessee--Memphis Segregation--Tennessee--Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968 Wilson, Slim Ray, Edward W., 1926- Domino, Fats, 1928- Turley, Lynne King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 Taylor, Earlice Walker, Albertina Cleveland, James Willis, A. W., 1925-1988 Brown, James, 1933-2006 Mayfield, Curtis Franklin, Aretha Wonder, Stevie Gilliam, Art Willis, Marc E. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Assassination Horne, Onzie, 1923-1973 Horne, Onzie O. Interviews with people in some way connected to music, and who discuss the importance of musicians and the music industry to the struggle for civil rights. Interviewees include Eddie Ray, music executive and copyright commissioner; Lynne Turley, music teacher in Memphis City Schools; Earlice Taylor, director of the Tennessee Cultural Heritage Preservation Society and vocalist; Marc Willis, CEO of Soulsville, U.S.A.; Art Gilliam, chairman and president of Gilliam Communications, Inc.; and Onzie Horne Jr., activist. 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. [Memphis, Tenn.] : Rhodes College Rhodes College Crossroads to Freedom Digital Archive Project (Rhodes College) 2008 Interviews Oral histories Moving images Photographs http://www.crossroadstofreedom.org/detail.collection?oid=28 Forms part of the Crossroads to Freedom Digital Archive Project. 2006/2008 Memphis (Tenn.) Shelby County (Tenn.) Southern States Crossroads to Freedom Digital Archive is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Use of the site's content is subject to the conditions and terms of use on our Legal Notices page. 20120223 110045