African Americans -- Tennessee -- Knoxville
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Knoxville College Video Collection
McClung Video Oral History Collection
Paine, D. “Race and Murder in Knoxville, 1919: The Trials of Maurice Mays”.
Paine, D. “Race and Murder in Knoxville, 1919: The Trials of Maurice Mays” (Photocopy of notes distributed for a talk before the Knoxville Bar Association 14 December 2006).
Robert J. Booker interview , 2003
Sarah Moore Greene interview , 2003
Interview with Knoxville civil rights leader and educator Sarah Moore Greene by McClung Collection Director Steve Cotham in 2003.
Greene discusses her childhood in Madisonville, early years teaching, Mountain View School, Sarah Moore Greene School, her work with the NAACP. She was an advocate for early childhood edcuation and in 1969 became the first African-American member of the Knox County school board.
St. Clair Cobb Historical Marker Dedication Ceremony program
Program from the October 2, 2013 St. Clair Cobb (1895-1974) Historical Marker Dedication Ceremony at Vine Middle School. Mr. Cobb was “The Father of Band Music” for African-American public schools in Knoxville.