Civil rights

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on citizens’ rights as established by law and protected by constitution. Works on the rights of persons regardless of their legal, socioeconomic or cultural status and as recognized by the international community are entered under |a Human rights.

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

John Keith Benton Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0697
Scope and Content Note The John Keith Benton Papers are composed of 3.25 linear feet of sermons, articles, research, correspondence and photographs from his career as a pastor and Vanderbilt Dean. The dates of the collection range from the 1940s to the mid-1950s. It is divided into five series. Sermons—transcripts of sermons given by Benton ...
Dates: 1940s-1950s
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives

Dallas Blanchard Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0680
Scope and Contents

Correspondence letters to Vanderbilt University Divinity School from the 1960s.

Dates: 1960
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives

A. W. "Bill" Martin, Jr. Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0672
Dates: 1960
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives

Christopher Schmidt Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0645
Dates: 1960 - 2000
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives

John Seigenthaler Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0829
Abstract

The John Seigenthaler Papers, 1927-2014, contain correspondence, clippings, writings, speeches, photographs, artifacts, recordings, and other materials of journalist, writer, and Tennessean editor John Seigenthaler, 1927-2014.

Dates: 1920 - 2014
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives

Paul Slentz Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0397
Scope and Content Note

This small collection 0.42 linear feet (1 Hollinger box) contains materials relating to South Africa and Apartheid and in particular to The Davis Cup tennis championship that was held in Nashville at Vanderbilt in the spring of 1978. These papers were collected by Paul L. Slentz while he was a graduate student at Vanderbilt during the years 1977-1979.

Dates: 1978
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives

Melvin Watson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0492
Abstract

This collection contains the papers of Rev. Dr. Melvin H. Watson (1908-2006), religious leader, educator, longtime friend of the King family, and important figure in the Civil Rights Movement. Many of the papers relate to his 30+ years of service as pastor of Liberty Baptist Church in Atlanta (1958-1990).

Dates: 1915-1990; Majority of material found within 1960s-1980s
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives

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