Bibliographic Records
Database:
Volunteer Voices: The Growth of Democracy in Tennessee
Query:
vvcat: "D.5"
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Title: Bingham, D.H.K. in Ardmore, Indian Territory, to Church, R.R. Sr. in Memphis, Tennessee
Author : D. H.K. Bingham
Recipient : R. R. Church
Date Created: 1904-05-16
Abstract: Bingham compliments Church for donating $1000 to a Confederate Reunion in Memphis, despite controversy. Then requests to money to travel to Memphis and explain his plan for making a million dollars and "Remove, our, Race`s troubles."
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: The Robert R. Church Family Papers
Contributing Institution: University of Memphis Special Collections
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000000790
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Title: Nettles, D.T. in Memphis, Tennessee, to Orgill, Edmund in Memphis, Tennessee
Author : D. T. Nettles
Recipient : Edmund Orgill
Date Created: 1956-03-05
Abstract: A letter from a Memphis citizen protesting the possibility of putting a "negro" on the board of John Gaston Hospital. Nettles writes, "I am for 128% white supremacy."
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Postwar United States (1945-1970)
Collection: Edmund Orgill Papers
Contributing Institution: University of Memphis Special Collections
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001032
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Title: D.W. Peabody in Nashville, TN to General John Eaton in Washington, D.C.
Author : Daniel Webster Peabody, 1836-1879
Recipient : John Eaton, 1829-1906
Date Created: 1869-06-09
Abstract: Peabody discusses re-enfranchisement and the "practical reality" of universal suffrage.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Contributing Institution: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001515
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Title: Petition for Emancipation of slave, Esea, 1820
Signer : David Shelby
Date Created: 1820-11-20
Abstract: This is a Petition for Emancipation made on November 20, 1820 that asks the County Court of Sumner County to free a slave of William Trigg (deceased), Esea because of the request in William Trigg`s Last Will and Testament for Esea`s freedom because of meritorious services rendered his master. In the court order granting freedom to Esea, Samuel K. Blythe was to put up $500 as security to indemnify the county of any incidental charge or expense that may be incurred by reason of the freeing of "said negro Esea."
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Collection: Miscellaneous documents
Contributing Institution: Sumner County Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002733
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Title: E.L. McClain in Greenfield, Ohio to Lewis M. Coleman in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Author : E.L. McClain
Date Created: 1901-07-23
Abstract: This is a follow-up letter from E.L. McClain in Greenfield, Ohio to Louis M. Coleman in Chattanooga, Tennessee further explaining his reasoning for choosing not to purchase his mill and relocate to Tennessee. This decision, in large part, was in response to strict child labor laws in Tennessee. There was a state-wide 14-year-old age limit law at the time.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: James B. Frazier Papers
Contributing Institution: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000003210
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Title: Coach Edward S. Temple and Muhammed Ali at Tennessee A and I State University
Photographer : Earl Clanton
Date Created: 1965
Abstract: In this photograph, Coach Edward S. Temple, women's track coach, shakes hands with Muhammed Ali at Tennessee A and I State University, now Tennessee State University.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Postwar United States (1945-1970)
Collection: Walter S. Davis Collection
Contributing Institution: Tennessee State University - Special Collections and Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002041
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Title: Orgill, Edmund in Memphis, Tennessee, to Hollingsworth, Gordon in Germantown, Tennessee
Author : Edmund Orgill
Recipient : Gordon Hollingsworth
Date Created: 1956-03-15
Abstract: A letter in which the Mayor of Memphis expresses his stance against racial integration in the school system.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Postwar United States (1945-1970)
Collection: Edmund Orgill Papers
Contributing Institution: University of Memphis Special Collections
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001031
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Title: Realpolitical Institute
Author : Realpolitical Institute
Recipient : Edmund Orgill
Date Created: 1956 - 1959
Abstract: Letter from a white supremacist, anti-semite group founded in Chicago, Illinois requesting support. Their slogan is "Whiteman Awake-The Hour Is Late!"
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Postwar United States (1945-1970)
Collection: Edmund Orgill Papers
Contributing Institution: University of Memphis Special Collections
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001033
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Title: Emancipation Petition of slave, Sukey
Signer : Edward Douglass
Date Created: 1806-03-19
Abstract: A legal Petition for Emancipation made by a slave (Sukey) who had been emancipated by the will of her deceased master, John Headon, for the faithful attention she had given to him, especially in his illness. According to the legal order granting her freedom, Sukey was "forever free with all her future posterity born or to be born since the death of her said master." A security in the amount of $1,000 was required. Edward Douglass, chairman of the court signed the order.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Collection: Miscellaneous documents
Contributing Institution: Sumner County Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002732
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Title: National-American Woman Suffrage Association in New York, NY, to the National Presidential Convention of 1900
Author : National American Woman Suffrage Association
Associated name : Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1815-1902
Associated name : Susan B. Anthony, 1820-1906
Date Created: 1900
Abstract: An open letter to the National Presidential Convention of 1900 requesting the abolition of disfranchisement based "on account of Sex." The letter is signed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, and several other members of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: The Robert R. Church Family Papers
Contributing Institution: University of Memphis Special Collections
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001023
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Title: Civil rights marchers picket Cotton Carnival
Photographer : Ernest C Withers, 1922-
Date Created: 1960 - 1967
Abstract: Civil rights marchers picket segregated Cotton Carnival.Sign in forefront reads, Why spend your money at a Segregationist Second-Rate Carnival.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Postwar United States (1945-1970)
Collection: Memphis Civil Rights Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution: Memphis Public Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001425
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Title: Black civil rights activists march while segregationists protest
Photographer : Ernest C Withers, 1922-
Date Created: 1960
Abstract: Black civil rights activists march while segregationists protest, on Main Street in Memphis, Tennessee.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Postwar United States (1945-1970)
Collection: Memphis Civil Rights Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution: Memphis Public Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001420
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Title: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. shakes hands with Benjamin L. Hooks
Photographer : Ernest C Withers, 1922-
Date Created: 1959-07-31
Abstract: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. shakes hands with Benjamin L. Hooks at the Freedom Rally in Memphis, Tennessee. July 31, 1959.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Postwar United States (1945-1970)
Collection: Memphis Civil Rights Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution: Memphis Public Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001422
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Title: Demonstration during public school boycott
Photographer : Ernest C Withers, 1922-
Date Created: 1969
Abstract: Laurie Sugarmon and Rev. Ezekial Bell lead demonstrations during the public school boycott, fall of 1969.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Postwar United States (1945-1970)
Collection: Memphis Civil Rights Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution: Memphis Public Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001423
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Title: Students conduct a lunch counter sit-in
Photographer : Ernest C Withers, 1922-
Date Created: 1960 - 1967
Abstract: Students from LeMoyne College and Owen College conduct a lunch counter sit-in. Downtown Memphis. Employee installing sign stating "This counter closed".
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Postwar United States (1945-1970)
Collection: Memphis Civil Rights Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution: Memphis Public Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001428
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Title: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mrs. Daisy Bates address Freedom Rally
Photographer : Ernest C Withers, 1922-
Date Created: 1959-07-31
Abstract: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mrs. Daisy Bates address Freedom Rally. In background is banner with photographs of candidates (L-R); Russell Sugarmon, Benjamin Hooks, Roy Love, Henry C. Banton. Mrs. Bates was leader of the Little Rock, Ark. NAACP movement to integrate Central High School.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Postwar United States (1945-1970)
Collection: Memphis Civil Rights Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution: Memphis Public Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001427
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Title: White segregationists stage counter protest
Photographer : Ernest C Withers, 1922-
Date Created: 1960 - 1967
Abstract: White segregationists stage counter protest. A car drives by with a man holding a sign that reads, "Civil Rights For Whites."
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Postwar United States (1945-1970)
Collection: Memphis Civil Rights Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution: Memphis Public Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001426
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Title: Black college and high school students arrested during demonstration
Photographer : Ernest C Withers, 1922-
Date Created: 1950 - 1959
Abstract: Black college and high school students arrested during 1950s Civil Rights demonstration.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Postwar United States (1945-1970)
Collection: Memphis Civil Rights Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution: Memphis Public Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001424
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Title: Civil rights march on Main Street, Memphis, Tennessee
Photographer : Ernest C Withers, 1922-
Date Created: 1960
Abstract: Two ministers, possibly Father Lyke and Bishop Henry C. Bunton, lead civil rights marchers.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Postwar United States (1945-1970)
Collection: Memphis Civil Rights Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution: Memphis Public Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001421
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Title: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks at Freedom Rally, Memphis, TN
Photographer : Ernest C Withers, 1922-
Date Created: 1959-07-31
Abstract: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks at Freedom Rally in support of local candidates.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Postwar United States (1945-1970)
Collection: Memphis Civil Rights Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution: Memphis Public Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001419
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Title: March to support 1969 school boycott
Photographer : Ernest C Withers, 1922-
Date Created: 1969
Abstract: March down Beale Street to support the school boycott in 1969. Pictured are (L to R): Jesse Epps, Ralph Jackson, Maxine Smith, Ezekial Bell, and Adjua Naantaanbuu. Signs read (L to R): "[Matter Not] Hard You Try You Can't Stop Us Now"; "Justice for All School Board and St. Joseph" (2 signs); "White Merchants Do Right Speak Out"
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Postwar United States (1945-1970)
Collection: Memphis Civil Rights Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution: Memphis Public Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001433
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Title: Memphis Jubilee
Collector : Ethyl Venson
Date Created: 1950 - 1963
Abstract: These photographs are titled, "Memphis Jubilee" and are from a collection of Ethyl Venson (Memphis, Tenn.) Her husband started Jubilee and she was first queen. These photos are all from 1 scrapbook. There isn't any information linked to individual photos. The photographers, when identified, are listed. 1. Ernest C. Withers (EW) 1963, 2. R. Earl Williams (RW)1950, 3.RW likely 1963, 4.RW 1949, 5.EW circa 1950-60, 6.RW 1951, 7.EW 1959, 8.EW 1963, 9.EW 1963?, 10.EW?, 11.RW Miss Venson on left?, 12., 13.RW?, 14.RW 1951, 15.RW?, 16.RW 1951, 17.RW 1951, 18.EW? 1963, 19.1963 Memphis Jubilee King and Queen. Jubilee history:(from,www.memphiskemetjubilee.com/history) "Memphis and various social organizations celebrated its success in the cotton industry during the early 1900s. In March 1934, Dr. R.Q. Venson, then a dentist on Beale Street, took his wife's nephew to view the Cotton Carnival Parade. When his nephew pointed out that . . . the Negroes were horses, Dr. Venson decided to request that Negroes be allowed to participate fully in the parade. His request was not taken seriously during this time of segregation, and he was challenged to organize a Negro festival. Dr. Venson knew that Memphis' celebration of the cotton industry needed to be more. If it were not for the contributions of African slaves and later contributions of African Americans, the cotton industry could not have become the success it was then, and as we know it today.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Postwar United States (1945-1970)
Collection: Miscellaneous History
Contributing Institution: Pink Palace Museum
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002621
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Title: State of Tennessee vs. Ezekiel Collins
Defendant : Ezekial Collins
Assignee : Joseph Creech
Date Created: 1846
Abstract: Legal case report detailing the trial of Tennessee v. Ezekial Collins. Collins was tried and convicted of illegal voting, as a "colored man," violating Constitutional law.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Collection: Hawkins County Archives
Contributing Institution: Hawkins County Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002800
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Title: Remarks by the President of Fisk University, The Flag
Associated name : F. A. McKenzie
Attributed name : Fisk University
Printer : Williams Company of Nashville, Tennessee
Date Created: 1915-09-22
Abstract: 3 tifs. A three page brochure issued at an event where Fisk college raised the flag over Jubilee Hall on September 22, 1915. The flag raising and speech was to "mark the opening of the New Year and the Anniversary of the Preliminary Announcement by Lincoln of the Freeing of the Slave, September 22, 1862." The page was signed by Dr. F.A. Mc Kenzie. The first page features a black and white image of one of the college`s buildings flying a flag and featuring a tall tree in front. The second page is in praise of the flag and its symbolism, with two images of the college. The page reads in part, "The Flag represents in its aspects of patriotism, of national devotion, two great ideas, two great facts. The first great idea, the first great fact, is that of Obedience. . . . The second great idea, the second great fact, is that of Perfection. . . . When we are true to our flag we are true to that kingdom whose law is, Be ye therefore perfect." The third page text aligns Lincoln with the flag, stating "The flag of Lincoln is the flag of the South, and the flag of the North, the flag of the white and the flag of the black. It is the flag under whose folds no slave can breathe. . . . The flag and freedom and education are inseparable."
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Fisk Jubilee Singers
Contributing Institution: Fisk University - Franklin Library, Special Collections
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000003283
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Title: Draft of press statement on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Author : Frank Holloman
Date Created: 1968-04-04
Abstract: A draft of Holloman`s statement about the assassination of Dr. King, written on his desk note pad.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Postwar United States (1945-1970)
Contributing Institution: Memphis Public Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001905
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