If so, please contact us . Looby would later be instrumental in the Nashville civil rights movement, and Marshall would serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. The Jackson-Madison County Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is chartered. Four black students admitted to graduate programs at University of Tennessee. Septima Clark and others at Highlander Folk School in Monteagle begin training future civil rights demonstrators in nonviolence and in conducting literacy and voter registration campaigns.
Racists dynamite integrated school in Nashville.
A state prosecutor raids Highlander Folk School, closing it on trumped-up charges. Burton Dodson convicted in Fayette County for killing white deputy in 1940, even though a deputy testifies Dodson likely is innocent. The trial fuels the determination of blacks to be able to vote so they can serve on juries. Fayette County officials refuse to let bIacks vote in Democratic primary. Federal government sues Fayette County Democratic Executive Committee.