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"An Island Of Peace In A Sea Of Racial Strife:" The Civil Rights Movement In Knoxville, Tennesse, Michael Blum
"An Island Of Peace In A Sea Of Racial Strife:" The Civil Rights Movement In Knoxville, Tennesse, Michael Blum
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This study examines the civil rights movement in Knoxville, Tennessee. It argues that the city's history of race relations, economy, and regional circumstances led to a different type of civil rights movement. It was conducted by a variety of groups: student activists, established activists, local businessmen, and elected officals. They had a complicated relationship, which changed frequently as groups responded to the actions of others. This dynamic led to a relatively peaceful movement, which created a degree of racial progress, but failed to remedy the structural problems that pleagued Knoxville's Black community, such as poverty and unemployment.In early 1960, student …
The Battle Of Little Rock, Shawn Fisher
The Battle Of Little Rock, Shawn Fisher
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In 1957, Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the integration of Little Rock Central High. In response, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent elements of the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock to ensure that nine black students could attend the school unmolested by a riotous mob. The Little Rock crisis is usually studied as a landmark event in the civil rights movement, but it can be further examined as key event in the Cold War, which illuminates several interesting aspects of the crisis. First, it reveals the background of the segregated Arkansas National Guard and the …
Heart's Blood: A Biography Of Lemuel Whitley Diggs, Richard Harold Nollan
Heart's Blood: A Biography Of Lemuel Whitley Diggs, Richard Harold Nollan
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This dissertation examines the career of Lemuel Whitley Diggs, who joined the faculty in 1929 at the University of Tennessee Medical Units in Memphis. As a white doctor, he spent his career seeking more effective therapies for patients afflicted with sickle cell anemia, which was considered a black disease, a racial marker, and a sign of black inferiority. His most insightful contributions to understanding sickle cell occurred in the 1930s and 1940s while he was relatively unknown except to a handful of sickle cell researchers nationwide. By the late 1940s, storing blood for later transfusion became a practical reality, enabling …
"They Were Her Daughters:" Women And Grassroots Organizing For Social Justice In The Arkansas Delta, 1870-1970, Jayme Millsap Stone
"They Were Her Daughters:" Women And Grassroots Organizing For Social Justice In The Arkansas Delta, 1870-1970, Jayme Millsap Stone
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The Arkansas Delta has a rich history of struggle and resistance, however, little is known about how local people organized for social justice. The widely-held belief is that black, male church pastors defined civil rights issues in their communities and led the people to action when they believed it was appropriate. This study is a corrective for this assumption and illustrates how black women--activist mothers--used the churches and African American religion as launching points for activist activities that they deemed critical to survival. As grassroots caretakers of the black community, local personalities---as teachers and tenant farmers, as club women, race …