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Photograph of Reverend Joseph Metz Rollins and police officers, 1963 May 09

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A photograph of Reverend Joseph Metz Rollins with police officers before a demonstration, Nashville, Tennessee, May 9, 1963. Reverend Rollins served with the National Committee of Black Churchmen and the Nashville Christian Leadership Council during the civil rights movement in Nashville. His leadership and organization efforts contributed to the success of desegregation across the South. Under the direction of Reverend Joseph Metz Rollins, movement participants "called for an end to discriminatory practices in Nashville." Forms part of the Nashville Banner Archives. 1 - 35 mm black & white photograph negative.
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Nashville Public Library

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Digital Library of Tennessee

Keywords

  1. Activists
  2. African American Civil Rights Workers
  3. African Americans
  4. American
  5. Capital City
  6. Civil Rights
  7. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  8. Civil Rights Leaders
  9. Civil Rights Movements
  10. Downtown
  11. History
  12. Nashville
  13. Nashville (Tenn.)
  14. Nashville Christian Leadership Conference
  15. Nonviolence
  16. Police
  17. Protest Movements
  18. Race Relations
  19. Religion
  20. Rollins, J. Metz (Joseph Metz), 1926
  21. Segregation
  22. Social Conditions
  23. Sources
  24. Southern States
  25. Tennessee

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