Excerpt 7 from oral history interview with Kenneth L. Roberts, 2006 July 27
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An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader Kenneth L. Roberts, conducted on 27 July 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project: The Turner Interviews. Roberts discusses the civil rights movement in Nashville, including Nashville Mayor Ben West agreeing to end segregation at lunch counters in 1960. The complete interview, as well as an index, is available in the repository.
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Digital Library of TennesseeKeywords
- African Americans
- Bankers
- Business
- Business Enterprises
- Businesspeople
- Capital City
- Central Business Districts
- Civic Leaders
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Demonstrations
- Civil Rights Movements
- Civil Rights Workers
- Commerce
- Downtown Nashville
- Economic Conditions
- Enterprise
- History
- Interviews
- Lawyers
- Nashville
- Nashville (Tenn.)
- Race Relations
- Restaurants
- Roberts, Kenneth L., 1932
- Segregation
- Social Conditions
- Social Life And Customs
- Sources
- Tennessee
- West, Ben, 1911 1974
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