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Civil rights activist, leader, and the first martyr of the Civil Rights Movement: Willa Brown: 1906 1992 United States: civil rights activist, first African-American lieutenant in the US Civil Air Patrol, first African-American woman to run for Congress: Walter P. Reuther: 1907 1970 United States: labor leader and civil rights activist T.R.M ...
The civil rights movement in Tennessee: A narrative history (U. of Tennessee Press, 2005) online. Lovett, Bobby L. The African-American History of Nashville, Tennessee: 1780-1930 (University of Arkansas Press, 1999) online. Patterson, C. Perry. The Negro in Tennessee, 1790-1865; a study in southern politics (1922) online; PHILLIPS, PAUL DAVID.
Fleming, Cynthia G. “We Shall Overcome: Tennessee and the Civil Rights Movement,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 54 (1995): 232-45; Franklin, Jimmie Lewis. "Civil Rights Movement" Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture (2021) online; Honey, Michael K. Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers. University of ...
Robert J. Booker, Knoxville's esteemed and legendary historian and civil rights leader, was presented with an honorary Doctorate of Humanities degree from the University of Tennessee on Feb. 10.
The film chronicles Lawson's training sessions during the civil rights protests of the 1950s and 1960s. [37] Lawson was the subject of the film Love and Solidarity: Rev. James Lawson and Nonviolence in the Search for Workers Rights by Michael K. Honey. The film is an introduction to Lawson's contributions to labor rights struggles and the civil ...
Tennessee State Museum hosted an exhibition from February 4 to May 16 entitled "We Shall Not Be Moved: The 50th Anniversary of Tennessee's Civil Rights Sit-Ins". [78] At Tennessee State University on February 10, the 29th annual Conference on African American History and Culture held a special commemoration of the sit-ins, with Diane Nash as ...
OPINION: Part two of theGrio’s Black History Month series explores the myths, misunderstandings and mischaracterizations of the struggle for civil rights. The post Black History/White Lies: The ...
Brownlow was a member of the U.S. Senate when the final version of the bill S. 810 was introduced onto the Senate floor on April 19, 1870, enacted the next month by the U.S. Congress, and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on May 31, 1870 as the Enforcement Act of 1870 (also known under the popular titles as the Civil Rights Act of ...