Abstract The Civil Rights Collection brings together papers and publications from individuals and organizations, as well as over fifty hours of taped interviews with civil rights participants. Individuals include Charles Haynie, Buford Posey, Sidney Redmond, Walter and Elizabeth Rogers, and Claude Williams, among others. Organizations include ACLU, CORE, SCEF, SRC, and several others. The collection includes a wealth of pamphlets, organized by topic, and newsletters, organized by title. Documents...

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This collection contains a pin reading Free the Knoxville 22. The Knoxville 22 were a group of University of Tennessee student and non-student protesters opposed to what they considered the improper election of UT President Ed Boling in 1970.

Abstract This collection contains three t-shirts that protest events that took place during the Vietnam War: The Billy Graham Tour crusade held May 22-31, 1970 at the University of Tennessee, with presidential guest Richard Nixon; the bombing of Eastern Cambodia from March 18 1969 – May 1970 referred to by codename Operation Menu; and the Kent State Massacre of May 4th, 1970, in which four unarmed students were killed and nine students were wounded by the Ohio National Guard as a result of on-campus...