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Scope and content: Brochures, booklets, and a variety of other material concerning various aspects of the state of Tennessee. Subjects include overviews of various aspects of the state in general, state government, history, state symbols, and tourism. Many items are heavily illustrated, often with color photographs. The vast majority of materials are from the late twentieth or early twenty-first centuries. Quantity of materials on a subject ranges...
1262) The other face of Dixie
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Correspondent Harry Reasoner visits four cities in this 1962 program to examine progress in school integration: Clinton, Tennessee; Norfolk, Virginia; Atlanta, Georgia; and Little Rock, Arkansas. Along with Atlanta governor S. Ernest Vandiver and journalists Ralph McGill and Lenoir Chambers, Reasoner talks with students at Little Rock Central High School, their school board president and Arkansas governor Orval Faubus.
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Scope and content: Maps drawn with pen and ink, and some with color, showing roads, towns, county boundaries, waterways and other details of early states and territories in the United States, based upon original maps drawn in the 1790s. Maps are useful for tracing settlement and migration patterns throughout the early United States. Four maps show county origins in the states of Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Virginia.
1268) Crockett County
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The collection is primarily comprised of genealogical data which occurs in the form of newspaper clippings, photographs, genealogical charts, booklets, essays, letters, church records, wills, insurance records, ledgers, receipts, marraige records, deeds, obituaries, and property records. The collection also contains plans and old Valentine cards.
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Abstract: Photocopy of autobiographies of Annie E. (Fletcher) Clendening (pp.1-64), and her husband, W.A. (William A.) Clendening (pp. 66-89), written in 1903.
Scope and content: Annie E. (Fletcher) Clendening's memoir provides a perspective on women's activities and social life in 1860s Virginia, describes courtship and wedding customs, and provides a short glimpse of a woman's religious faith. Annie begins with brief family background, and tells...
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Abstract: Personal papers, news clippings and manuscripts of writings by author and playwright Virginia Armistead Nelson, spanning the years 1906-1923. Many materials are undated.
Scope and content: Personal papers consist of a small quantity of correspondence, particularly relating to her writing for the Nashville Banner newspaper and her submissions of works of fiction, plays, or poems to various magazines, agents, publishers or theatrical companies....
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"Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis and other foot soldiers risked their lives staging marches, sit-ins, Freedom Rides and bold attempts to vote during the Civil Rights Movement in order to change America. Countless women and men worked during the period to dismantle Jim Crow segregation laws that had kept Black people second-class citizens for centuries. Travel the United States Civil Rights Trail across the South and beyond to encounter riveting...
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Abstract: Maps of Nashville; Davidson County; the state of Tennessee; Tennessee cities and counties; Civil War battles, especially those in Tennessee; and a variety of other maps including geologic maps, water resources, and recreation, mostly as they relate to Tennessee. Other states, particularly Southern states and states bordering Tennessee, are also included, with emphasis upon the era of Tennessee settlement, from the 1770s to the mid-1800s....