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Photograph of crowd, Fehr Elementary School, corner of Fifth Avenue and Garfield Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 1957 September 09

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A photograph of irate segregationists exchanging words with supporters of desegregation at Fehr Elementary School, Nashville, Tennessee, 9 September 1957. Police officers escorted African American students into the school, marking the first day of public school desegregation in Nashville, Tennessee and what was known as the Nashville Plan, a plan to desegregate one grade per year starting with the first grade. Forms part of the Nashville Banner Archives. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 3.25 x 4.25 in.
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Capital City
  3. Civil Rights
  4. Civil Rights Movements
  5. Discrimination
  6. Discrimination In Education
  7. Education
  8. Elementary Schools
  9. Fehr Elementary School (Nashville, Tenn.)
  10. History
  11. Law And Legislation
  12. Nashville
  13. Nashville (Tenn.)
  14. Public Schools
  15. Race Relations
  16. School Children
  17. School Integration
  18. Schools
  19. Segregation
  20. Segregation In Education
  21. Social Conditions
  22. Sources
  23. Southern States
  24. Students
  25. Tennessee
  26. United States

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