Special Collections Finding Aids
Publication Date
5-30-2021
Abstract
Papers, bulk 1959-1971, of the civil rights struggles in Fayette and Haywood Counties, Tennessee. Included are newspaper clippings, community newsletters, correspondence, articles, photographs, materials regarding school integration, voter registrations lists, and records from the Fayette County Economic Development Commission. Also included are video and audio recordings of oral histories conducted by Robert Hamburger in research for the book, Our Portion of Hell: Fayette County, Tennessee; An Oral History of the Struggle for Civil Rights.
Source Collection
Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Recommended Citation
"MSS0441. Tent City: Fayette and Haywood Counties civil rights collection finding aid" (2021). Special Collections Finding Aids. 6.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-findingaids/6
Date
2021 February
Rights Statement
Archival Statement
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