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Source Collection
Commercial Appeal newspaper morgue, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
sc.0452.01.025a_003.001
Description
Students struggle for the flagpole on the Memphis State University campus, Memphis, Tennessee, in front of the Administration Building on May 6, 1970, in the wake of the Kent State University killings the previous day. Some students wanted to lower the flag in memory of the students killed during an anti-Vietnam war protest at Kent State University in Ohio while others were opposed leading to heightened tensions and a few skirmishes.
Date Created
6-16-2021
Date
1970 May 5
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Recommended Citation
"Kent State protest at Memphis State University, 1970" (2021). University of Memphis. 16.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-commercialappeal1/16
Keywords
Memphis State University., Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--United States., University of Memphis.
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