Description

Black-and-white photograph from the fall of 1969 of a march down Beale Street to support the schol boycott in Memphis, Tennessee. Pictured are left-to-right Jesse Epps, Ralph Jackson, Maxine Smith, Ezekial Bell, and Adjua Naantaanbuu. Signs read "[Matter not] hard you try you can't stop us now"; "Justice for all school board and St. Joseph"; "White merchants do right speak out." Civil rights workers in Memphis organized "Black Mondays," school boycotts where African American children stayed out of school on Mondays, to protest the all-white school board leading a district that was predominately African American. The school boycotts spread to include downtown merchants and other points of segregation in the community. In November 1969, two non-voting African Americans were appointed to the school board, ending the boycotts.The University of Tennessee Libraries (Knoxville, Tennessee) is the digital publisher.The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.

Record Contributed By

Memphis Public Library. Memphis and Shelby County Room

Record Harvested From

Digital Library of Georgia