The civil rights movement in Tennessee
Subtitle: a narrative history
By: Bobby L. Lovett.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 483
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights -- Tennessee -- History -- 20th century.; Civil rights movements -- Tennessee -- History -- 20th century.; African Americans -- Segregation -- Tennessee -- History -- 20th century.; Tennessee -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-468) and index.
Table of contents: title: The strange career of Jim Crow : the early civil rights movement in Tennessee, 1935-1950; title: We are not afraid! : Brown and Jim Crow schools in Tennessee; title: Hell no, we won't integrate : continuing school desegregation in Tennessee; title: Keep Memphis down in Dixie : sit-in demonstrations and desegregation of public facilities; title: Let nobody turn me around : sit-ins and public demonstrations continue to spread; title: The King God didn't save : the movement turns violent in Tennessee; title: The Black Republicans : civil rights and politics in Tennessee; title: The Black Democrats : civil rights and politics in Tennessee; title: The frustrated fellowship : civil rights and African American politics in Tennessee; title: Make Tennessee state equivalent to UT for white students : desegregation of higher education; title: After Geier and the merger : desegregation of higher education in Tennessee continues; title: Don't you wish you were white? : the conclusion.