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Oral history interview with Matthew Kennedy, 2008 September 10

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Excerpts from an interview with Matthew Kennedy conducted on 10 September 2008 by Andrea Blackman as part of the Civil Rights Oral History Project. Matthew Kennedy discussing coming to Fisk University after graduating from Julliard; his earliest memories of performing as a child; the bombing of Z. Alexander Looby's home in Nashville; Diane Nash's confrontation with Mayor Ben West; and Nashville sit-ins. Kennedy also talks about the experience he and his wife had being turned away from Morrison's Cafeteria in Nashville, as well as his reaction to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 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. Assassination
  3. Civil Rights
  4. Colleges And Universities
  5. Discrimination
  6. Discrimination In Restaurants
  7. Education
  8. Employment
  9. Fisk University
  10. History
  11. Interviews
  12. Jubilee Singers
  13. Kennedy, Matthew, 1921
  14. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
  15. Looby, Z. Alexander (Zephaniah Alexander), 1899 1972
  16. Morrison's Cafeteria (Nashville, Tenn.)
  17. Musicians
  18. Nash, Diane, 1938
  19. Nashville
  20. Nashville (Tenn.)
  21. Pianists
  22. Race Relations
  23. Segregation
  24. Social Conditions
  25. Social Life And Customs
  26. Sources
  27. Tennessee
  28. Universities
  29. West, Ben, 1911 1974

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