- Collection:
- Carl and Anne Braden Papers
- Title:
- News from Fayette County, Tennessee Workcamps
- Creator:
- Hortenstine, Virgie
- Date of Original:
- 1963-12-05
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--Tennessee--Fayette County
Civil rights movements--Tennessee--Haywood County
Civil rights--Tennessee--Fayette County
Civil rights--Tennessee--Haywood County
African Americans--Tennessee--Fayette County
African Americans--Tennessee--Haywood County
African Americans--Civil rights--Tennessee--Fayette County
African Americans--Civil rights--Tennessee--Haywood County
Work camps--Tennessee--Fayette County
Work camps--Tennessee--Haywood County
College students--Tennessee--Haywood County
Sit-ins--Tennessee--Somerville
Civil rights workers--Tennessee--Somerville
African American civil rights workers--Tennessee--Somerville
Civil rights demonstrations--Tennessee--Somerville - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, Fayette County, 35.19708, -89.41437
United States, Tennessee, Fayette County, Somerville, 35.2437, -89.35007
United States, Tennessee, Haywood County, 35.58322, -89.28384 - Medium:
- newsletters
- Type:
- Text
- Description:
- Newsletter from December 5, 1963 reporting on the activities of a work camp in Haywood County, Tennessee, where local African Americans and northern white college students worked to construct a community center. The newsletter details organizations and colleges participating in and sponsoring the Fayette County Workcamps Project. It also reports on two northern men who were put on trial for a sit-in at a drug store in Somerville, Tennessee.
The University of Tennessee Libraries (Knoxville, Tennessee) is the digital publisher.
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. - Metadata URL:
- https://digital.lib.utk.edu/collections/islandora/object/volvoices%3A7243
- Additional Rights Information:
- For current rights information, please visit: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200600000001200
- Original Collection:
- Box 5, Carl and Anne Braden Papers, MS 425, University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, Tennessee
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections
- Rights:
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