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| Creator: | Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007 |
| Title: | Demonstration during public school boycott |
| Date: | 1969 |
| Description: | Black-and-white photograph from the fall of 1969 of Laurie Sugarmon and Reverend Ezekial Bell leading a demonstration during the Memphis, Tennessee public school boycott. Civil rights workers in Memphis organized "Black Mondays," school boycotts where African American children stayed out of school on Mondays, to protest the all-white school board over a district that was predominately African American. In November 1969, two non-voting African Americans were appointed to the school board, ending the boycotts. The University of Tennessee Libraries (Knoxville, Tennessee) is the digital publisher. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. |
| Types: | Black-and-white photographs |
| Subjects: | Bell, Ezekial | Sugarmon, Laurie | Civil rights movements--Tennessee--Memphis | Civil rights demonstrations--Tennessee--Memphis | African American civil rights workers--Tennessee--Memphis | Civil rights workers--Tennessee--Memphis | Civil rights--Tennessee--Memphis | African Americans--Civil rights--Tennessee--Memphis | African Americans--Tennessee--Memphis | Boycotts--Tennessee--Memphis | Memphis (Tenn.)--Race relations | Race relations | African American clergy--Tennessee--Memphis | Segregation in education--Tennessee--Memphis | Shelby County (Tenn.) | Memphis (Tenn.) |
| Collection: | Memphis civil rights photograph collection |
| Institution: | Memphis Public Library's Memphis and Shelby County Room |
| Contributors: | Memphis Public Library. Memphis and Shelby County Room | Volunteer Voices (Project) |
| Online Publisher: | Knoxville, Tenn. : University of Tennessee, Knoxville in association with Memphis Public Library | 2006-09-06 |
| Original Material: | Memphis Civil Rights Photograph Collection, Box 1, Item 21, Memphis Public Library, Memphis, Tennessee |
| Rights and Usage: | For current rights information, please visit: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200600000001200 |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001423 |
