Title: Civil Rights Collection

Date/Date Range :   1960s-1980s

Extent: 4.25 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection contains correspondence (mainly press releases and petition information), publications, and reel-to-reel audiotapes from the 1960s through 1980s, primarily about the Civil Rights Movement.

Call number: MS-2826

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

Collection is property of the UT Special Collections Library.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Civil Rights Collection, MS-2826. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection contains three series in four boxes:

1. Series I: Correspondence, 1970s
2. Series II: Publications, 1972-1977, 1982-1986
3. Series III: Reel-to-Reel Audiotapes, 1950s-1970s

This collection contains correspondence (mainly press releases and petition information), publications (mainly newspapers), and reel-to-reel audiotapes from the 1960s through 1980s primarily about the Civil Rights Movement. (A few of the reels do not seem to relate to Civil Rights, including a Grace Moore tape, Carl Sandburg interview, Mollie Bowlin recording, etc.)

See also UT-MS-0334: The Civil Rights Collection and UT-MS-0425: The Carl and Anne Braden Papers, 1947-1967.

• Civil rights movements.
• Civil rights movements -- Southern States.
• Civil rights -- Periodicals.
• Southern States -- Social conditions -- Periodicals.