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Article: The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History
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- The Arkansas Historical Quarterly
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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CopyrightCopyright Arkansas Historical Association, Department of History, University of Arkansas Autumn 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History. By Bobby L. Lovett. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Pp. xxv, 483. Dedication, preface, note on terminology, illustrations, chronology, bibliographic essay, selected bibliography, index. $45.00.)
In the latter part of the twentieth century, Tennessee was the site of several pivotal events in the struggle for African-American civil rights. Students in Nashville organized the sit-in demonstrations that began in that city in 1959 and spread throughout the South. Nearly a decade later, violent racist reaction against the movement climaxed in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in Memphis. Initially undertaken as a ...