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1.
Collection
Cleaborn Homes resident interviews

Description:
The Cleaborn Homes Collection includes interviews with former residents of the Cleaborn Homes housing project in Memphis, Tennessee. Cleaborn Homes were part of Memphis public housing, specifically Foote Homes, which were segregated in the 1960s, and retained a largely African-American population continuing through the 1990s.
Date of Original:
2011
Contributing Institution:
Rhodes College

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Collection
LeMoyne-Owen reflections on sanitation strike march

Description:
The LeMoyne-Owen Collection consists of reflections written by students enrolled in Professor Michael P. Johnson’s History 202 and 204 classes at LeMoyne-Owen College in the spring of 1968.
Date of Original:
1968-03-28
Contributing Institution:
Rhodes College

15.
Collection
Sanitation strike tapes

Description:
Collection of interviews and news broadcasts covering Martin Luther King's assassination, the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, and other civil rights related news and events. Audio collected by the Memphis Search for Meaning Committee from 1968-1973.
Date of Original:
1960/1973
Contributing Institution:
Rhodes College

18.
Collection
Memphis world

Description:
Issues dating from 1950 to 1970 of the Memphis-based, African American newspaper, the Memphis World.
Date of Original:
1950/1970
Contributing Institution:
Rhodes College

23.
Collection
Everett R. Cook oral history collection

Description:
The Everett R. Cook Collection includes interviews conducted from 1979-2004 as part of the Everett R. Cook Oral History Collection on Civil Rights, made available through a partnership with the Memphis Public Library.
Date of Original:
1905/2004
Contributing Institution:
Rhodes College