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Subject African American civil rights workers--Tennessee--Nashville State Tennessee

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1. Oral history interview with James Lawson, October 24, 1983

Creator:: Lawson, James M., 1928-
Date of Original:: 1983-10-24
Collection:: Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
Contributing Institution:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)

2. Photograph of Reverend Joseph Metz Rollins and police officers, 1963 May 09

Creator:: Foster, Don
Date of Original:: 1963-05-09
Collection:: Nashville Public Library Digital Collections Portal: Civil Rights
Contributing Institution:: Nashville Public Library (Tenn.). Special Collections Division

3. WSB-TV newsfilm clip of citizens welcoming president John F. Kennedy to the city as well as of civil rights workers protesting segregation at two restaurants in Nashville, Tennessee, 1963 May

Creator:: WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 1963-05-00
Collection:: WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

4. Photograph of students marching during the Freedom March on Jefferson Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 1963 March 23

Creator:: Goodman, Bill
Date of Original:: 1963-03-23
Collection:: Nashville Public Library Digital Collections Portal: Civil Rights
Contributing Institution:: Nashville Public Library (Tenn.). Special Collections Division

5. WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Civil Rights demonstrators protesting segregation at downtown movie theaters in Nashville, Tennessee, 1961 February

Creator:: WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 1961-02
Collection:: WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

6. John Lewis

Date of Original:: 1961
Collection:: New Georgia Encyclopedia
Contributing Institution:: New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)

7. WSB-TV newsfilm clip of an interview with civil rights lawyer and city councilman Alexander Looby after his home was bombed in Nashville, Tennessee, 1960 April 19

Creator:: WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 1960-04-19
Collection:: WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

8. WSB-TV newsfilm clip of a African American students holding a lunch counter sit-in and policemen arresting the demonstrators in Nashville, Tennessee, 1960 February 27

Creator:: WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 1960-02-27
Collection:: WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection