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Cradle of Student Protest

Material Memory by Council on Library and Information Resources

Jun 15, 202238:48Society & Culture

Travel to Nashville, Tennessee, "the cradle of student protest," to learn about Fisk University's activist legacy–from the Jubilee Singers in the 1800s to the sit-ins of the 1960s to Black Lives Matter today.

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