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Oral history interview with King M. Hollands, 2006 June 28

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Excerpts from an interview with civil rights movement participant King M. Hollands, conducted on 28 June 2006 by Larry Patterson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Hollands was one of the first students to desegregate Father Ryan High School in Nashville, Tennessee, the first school in Nashville to integrate in 1954. Hollands was also a student activist during the Nashville sit-in movement of the 1960s. In the excerpts, Hollands discusses the social environment and school integration at Father Ryan High School; the atmosphere of camaraderie in jail upon arrest during the Nashville sit-in movement; the parents' support of the jailed activists; and his personal values of being a civil rights movement participant. The complete interview is available in the Special Collections Division.
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Sound Oral Histories
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Capital City
  3. Catholic High Schools
  4. Civil Rights
  5. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  6. Civil Rights Movements
  7. Civil Rights Workers
  8. Downtown Nashville
  9. Education
  10. Father Ryan High School (Nashville, Tenn.)
  11. High School Students
  12. High Schools
  13. History
  14. Hollands, King M., 1941
  15. Interviews
  16. Nashville
  17. Nashville (Tenn.)
  18. Private Schools
  19. Race Relations
  20. School Integration
  21. Segregation In Education
  22. Social Change
  23. Social Conditions
  24. Social Life And Customs
  25. Sources
  26. Tennessee

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