- Collection:
- Volunteer Voices
- Title:
- News from Fayette County, Tennesssee Workcamps
- Date of Original:
- 1945/1970
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Work camps
Segregation--United States--1960-1970
Civil rights movements--Tennessee
Civil rights
African Americans - 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:
- reports
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Report on the activities of a workcamp in Haywood County, TN where local Negroes and northern white college students are working to construct a community center. Details organizations and colleges that are participating in and sponsoring the Fayette County Workcamps Project. Also reports on two northern men who are to be put on trial for a sit-in at a drug store in Somerville, TN.
The University of Tennessee Libraries (Knoxville, Tennessee) is the digital publisher. - Metadata URL:
- https://digital.lib.utk.edu/collections/islandora/object/volvoices%3A7243
- 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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