- Collection:
- Volunteer Voices
- Title:
- Sumner County Colored Agricultural Fair poster, 1938
- Date of Original:
- 1929/1945
- Subject:
- Fairs
Agricultural exhibitions
African American farmers--Southern States--History--20th century
Civil rights movements--Tennessee
African Americans
Agriculture
Popular culture - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, Sumner County, 36.46941, -86.46036
United States, Tennessee, Sumner County, Gallatin, 36.38838, -86.44666 - Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- This is a photograph of a poster from the Sumner County Colored Agricultural Fair, which took place August 25-27,1938. The poster noted that the officers were Simon Patterson, president, and Hardy Hall, Vice-president. The event billed itself as "American's First Negro Fair" and encouraged people to "Keep Your Children in Union High School."
The University of Tennessee Libraries (Knoxville, Tennessee) is the digital publisher. - Metadata URL:
- https://digital.lib.utk.edu/collections/islandora/object/volvoices%3A11758
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Digital Collection: The Growth of Democracy in Tennessee: A Grassroots Approach to Volunteer Voices
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections
- Rights:
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