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Source Collection
Commercial Appeal newspaper morgue, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
sc.0452.01.0025a_006.009
Description
Four members of the Memphis State Eight, the first African American students to be admitted to Memphis State University stand at a side entrance to the Administration Building in September 1959. L-r: Marvis LaVerne Kneeland, Sammie Burnett, Eleanor Gandy, and Ralph Prater.
Date Created
6-21-2021
Date
1959 September
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Recommended Citation
"Memphis State Eight, Memphis State University, 1959" (2021). University of Memphis. 34.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-commercialappeal1/34
Keywords
Memphis State University., University of Memphis., College integration--Tennessee--Memphis.
