Description
Excerpts from an interview with civil rights leader Charles Tony Moorman on 09 August 2007 by Larry Patterson as part of the Civil Rights Oral History Project. In the excerpts Moorman discusses when the Washington Junior High School basketball team became the first African-American junior high school team to get their picture printed in the Nashville Banner as well as basketball tradition at Pearl High School. The complete interview is available in the Special Collections Division.
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Digital Library of TennesseeKeywords
- African American Basketball Players
- African American Schools
- African Americans
- Basketball
- Basketball Stories
- Basketball Teams
- Civil Rights
- Education
- High Schools
- History
- Interviews
- Junior High Schools
- Lawson, Ronald R
- Moorman, Charles Tony
- Nashville
- Nashville (Tenn.)
- Nashville Banner
- Pearl High School (Nashville, Tenn.)
- Public Schools
- Race Relations
- Social Conditions
- Social Life And Customs
- Sources
- Sports & Recreation
- Swanigan, Teddy
- Tennessee
- Washington Junior High School (Nashville, Tenn.)
- Watkins, Boo
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