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Fisk Student Interviews about Experiences in Jail, Friday Night Fellowship Songs, 1964 May

 File — Box 4: Series spc-mss0161-s05 [Barcode: 30081049197670]
Identifier: spc-mss0161-s05-g0002
Scope and Contents This tape includes an interview with four students who, while participating in an exchange program at Fisk University, took part in the May 1964 non-violent protests at Morrison's Cafeteria, a segregated restaurant at 1720 West End Avenue in Nashville, TN. The students and several other protestors were arrested with "John Doe" and "Jane Doe" arrest warrants. In this interview, they describe spending the weekend in jail, where they kept up morale by singing Freedom Songs. In the later part of...
Dates: 1964 May
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives / Nelson and Marian Fuson Papers / Cassette Tapes and Slides

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