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| Creator: | Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007 |
| Title: | March to support 1969 school boycott |
| Date: | 1969 |
| Description: | Black-and-white photograph from the fall of 1969 of a march down Beale Street to support the schol boycott in Memphis, Tennessee. Pictured are left-to-right Jesse Epps, Ralph Jackson, Maxine Smith, Ezekial Bell, and Adjua Naantaanbuu. Signs read "[Matter not] hard you try you can't stop us now"; "Justice for all school board and St. Joseph"; "White merchants do right speak out." 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 leading a district that was predominately African American. The school boycotts spread to include downtown merchants and other points of segregation in the community. 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: | Jackson, Ralph | Bell, Ezekial | Smith, Maxine Atkins | Naantaanbuu, Adjua | Epps, Jesse | 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 | Segregation in education--Tennessee--Memphis | School boards--Tennessee--Memphis | Central business districts--Tennessee--Memphis | Signs and signboards--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 | 2006-09-07 |
| Original Material: | Memphis Civil Rights Photograph Collection, Box 1, Item #28, 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=200700000001433 |
