- Civil rights demonstrations--Tennessee--Knoxville
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
[Demonstration at Tennessee Theatre 1], 1963
Item
Identifier: TAMIS F 2021.001.001
Scope and Contents
Footage of KPD offices and Civil Rights demonstration at Tennessee Theatre and Cumberland Ave.
Dates:
1963
[Demonstration at Tennessee Theatre 2], 1963
Item
Identifier: TAMIS F 2021.001.002
Scope and Contents
Footage of Civil Rights protests at the Tennessee Theatre and the Knox County Courthouse in Knoxville, TN.
Dates:
1963
Knoxville Police Department Collection
Collection
Identifier: TAMIS-MIC 2021.001
Content Description
23 reels of 16mm film of various lengths, totaling a few thousand feet, documenting public law enforcement activities by the Knoxville Police Department, training activities for the department, outreach/educational films for a public audience, and amateur films of public relations activities, all circa 1960s-1970s. Several training films for police officers and safety PSA films are in the collection as well. Much of the documentary material is believed to have been shot by WBIR-TV camera...
Dates:
1950-1980
Robert J. Booker interview , 2003
Item
Scope and Contents
Interview with Knoxville civil rights activist and African-American historian Robert J. Booker by McClung Collection Director Steve Cotham in 2003.Booker discusess his life growing up in Knoxville, his time at Knoxville College, his role in the civil rights movement, desegregation protests at lunch counters and the Tennessee Theatre in downtown Knoxville, work in Guinea for Crossroads Africa, his time in the Tennessee state legislature, working for Stroh's beer in Detroit, his...
Dates:
2003
