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Excerpts from an interview with Alice Smith Risby conducted on 05 April 2007 by John Egerton as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Risby, wife of Reverend Kelly Miller Smith, Sr., discusses her daughter's participation in the desegregation of Nashville's public schools. The complete interview as well as an index is available in the Special Collections Division.
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Digital Library of TennesseeKeywords
- African Americans
- Children's History
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Movements
- Clemons School (Nashville, Tenn.)
- Discrimination
- Discrimination In Education
- Education
- Elementary Schools
- History
- Interviews
- Law And Legislation
- Nashville
- Nashville (Tenn.)
- Popular Culture
- Public Schools
- Race Relations
- Risby, Alice Smith, 1929
- School Children
- School Integration
- Segregation
- Segregation In Education
- Smith, Joy
- Smith, Kelly Miller, 1920
- Social Conditions
- Sources
- Tennessee