- Collection:
- Nashville Public Library Digital Collections Portal: Civil Rights
- Title:
- A first step toward school integration, 1958 June
- Creator:
- Holden, Anna
- Contributor to Resource:
- Congress of Racial Equality
- Date of Original:
- 1958
- Subject:
- Fehr Elementary School (Nashville, Tenn.)
Congress of Racial Equality
School integration--United States
African Americans--Civil rights--Tennessee--Nashville
Segregation in education--Law and legislation--United States--History
Discrimination in education--Law and legislation--United States--History
Social change--Tennessee--Nashville
School integration--Tennessee--Nashville
Social justice--Tennessee--Nashville
Civil rights movements--Tennessee--Nashville
Civil rights workers--Tennessee--Nashville
Nashville (Tenn.)--History--Sources
Nashville (Tenn.)--Social conditions
Nashville (Tenn.)--Race relations - People:
- McKinley, Linda Gail
McKinley, Grace - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville, 36.16589, -86.78444
- Medium:
- pamphlets
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/tiff
- Description:
- Pamphlet written by Anna Holden in cooperation with the Nashville Congress of Racial Equality group, 1958. The pamphlet tells how a CORE group helped parents and children, despite the violence of segregationist mobs, to desegregate public schools in Nashville, Tennessee in the fall of 1957. This pamphlet also addresses southern communities that did not accept the 1954 Brown v. Board decision along with a chronology of all major events in the Nashville school desegregation struggle through April 1958. Forms part of the Civil Rights Ephemera Collection.
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.library.nashville.org/u?/nr,567
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- U.S. and international copyright laws protect this digital content, which is provided for educational purposes only and may not be downloaded, reproduced, or distributed for any other purpose without written permission. Please contact the Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219. Telephone (615) 862-5782.
- Extent:
- 1 pamphlet : col. ; 6 x 8.5 in.
- Original Collection:
- Civil Rights Ephemera Collection, Special Collections Division, Nashville Public Library.
- Contributing Institution:
- Nashville Public Library (Tenn.). Special Collections Division
- Rights:
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