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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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Cradle of Student Protest is an episode from Material Memory by Council on Library and Information Resources. Travel to Nashville, Tennessee, "the cradle of student protest," to learn about Fisk University's activist legacy–from the Jubilee...

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