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Excerpt 2 from oral history interview with Mary Frances Berry, 2003 September 05

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An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant Mary Frances Berry, conducted on 5 September 2003 by John Egerton as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Berry discusses the day that the Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka decision came down and her reaction to it. The complete interview, as well as a transcript, is available in the repository.
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Sound Oral Histories
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Nashville Public Library

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Digital Library of Tennessee

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Berry, Mary Frances
  3. Brown, Oliver, 1918
  4. Civil Rights
  5. Civil Rights Movements
  6. Civil Rights Workers
  7. Discrimination
  8. Discrimination In Education
  9. History
  10. Interviews
  11. Law And Legislation
  12. Nashville
  13. Nashville (Tenn.)
  14. Race Discrimination
  15. Race Relations
  16. Segregation
  17. Segregation In Education
  18. Social Conditions
  19. Tennessee
  20. Topeka (Kan.). Board Of Education
  21. Trials, Litigation, Etc
  22. United States

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