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| Creator: | Wilkinson, DeLois Jackson, 1924-2005 |
| Title: | Excerpt 1 from oral history interview with DeLois Wilkinson, 2002 October 31 |
| Date: | 2002 Oct. 31 |
| Description: | An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant DeLois Wilkinson, conducted on 31 October 2002 by Kathy G. Bennett as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Wilkinson discusses Nashville's role as a model for movements in the rest of the South, raising money to fund the Movement, social conditions in Nashville during the Movement, and the non-violence training provided by the Nashville Christian Leadership Council (NCLC), the local affiliate of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The complete interview, as well as a transcript, is available in the repository. |
| Types: | Sound recordings | Oral histories |
| Subjects: | Wilkinson, DeLois Jackson, 1924-2005--Interviews | Nashville Christian Leadership Conference | African Americans--Social conditions | African Americans--Civil rights--Tennessee--Nashville | Civil rights--Tennessee--Nashville | Civil rights workers--Tennessee--Nashville | Civil rights movements--Tennessee--Nashville | African Americans--Segregation--Tennessee--Nashville | Nashville (Tenn.)--Race relations | Nashville (Tenn.)--History | Nashville (Tenn.) | Davidson County (Tenn.) |
| Collection: | Nashville Public Library Digital Collections Portal: Civil Rights |
| Institution: | Nashville Public Library |
| Contributors: | Bennett, Kathy G. | Public Library of Nashville and Davidson County. Special Collections Division | Civil Rights Online Collection (Public Library of Nashville and Davidson County. Special Collections Division) | James, Carolyn |
| Online Publisher: | Nashville, Tenn. : Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library | 2006 |
| Original Material: | Excerpted from: CROHPWilkinson audio cassette recording(s) converted to mp3 format in 2006. Civil Rights Oral History Project, Special Collections Division, Nashville Public Library. |
| Rights and Usage: | U.S. and international copyright laws protect this digital content. This image is provided for educational purposes only and may not be downloaded, reproduced, or distributed for any other purpose without written permission. Please contact the Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219. Telephone (615) 862-5782. |
| Related Materials: | Forms part of online collection: Civil Rights Online Collection. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://digital.library.nashville.org/u?/nr,188 |
