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Oral history interview with Alice Smith Risby, 2007 April 05

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Excerpts from an interview with Alice Smith Risby conducted on 05 April 2007 by John Egerton as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Risby, wife of Reverend Kelly Miller Smith, Sr., discusses her daughter's participation in the desegregation of Nashville's public schools. The complete interview as well as an index is available in the Special Collections Division.
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Sound Oral Histories
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Children's History
  3. Civil Rights
  4. Civil Rights Movements
  5. Clemons School (Nashville, Tenn.)
  6. Discrimination
  7. Discrimination In Education
  8. Education
  9. Elementary Schools
  10. History
  11. Interviews
  12. Law And Legislation
  13. Nashville
  14. Nashville (Tenn.)
  15. Popular Culture
  16. Public Schools
  17. Race Relations
  18. Risby, Alice Smith, 1929
  19. School Children
  20. School Integration
  21. Segregation
  22. Segregation In Education
  23. Smith, Joy
  24. Smith, Kelly Miller, 1920
  25. Social Conditions
  26. Sources
  27. Tennessee

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