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Volunteer voices

Volunteer Voices provides access to digitized primary sources documenting the history and culture of Tennessee. Significant events from Civil Rights Movement are presented in this collection from the perspective of Tennesseans.

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Date of Original
1801/2022

Subject
Civil rights
Human rights
African Americans
Civil rights movements--Tennessee
Social problems
Women--Suffrage--Tennessee
Politics and Government
Civil rights--Tennessee--Memphis
Women
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

People
Gore, Albert, 1907-1998
Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947
Church, Robert Reed, 1885-1952
Loeb, Henry, 1920-
Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Medium
photographs
letters (correspondence)
reports
cartoons (humorous images)
prints (visual works)
pamphlets
fliers (printed matter)
lists (document genres)
publications (documents)
broadsides (notices)
articles
brochures
petitions

Type
StillImage, Text

Description
Volunteer Voices provides access to digitized primary sources documenting the history and culture of Tennessee. Significant events from Civil Rights Movement are presented in this collection from the perspective of Tennesseans.

Metadata URL
https://digital.lib.utk.edu/collections/islandora/object/collections:volvoices

Language
eng

Contributing Institution
University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections

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1. The Citizens` Council newspaper

Date of Original:: 1945/1970
Collection:: Volunteer Voices
Contributing Institution:: University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections

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