Title: West Tennessee Voters Project Records
Inclusive Dates: 1964-1966

Creator:

• West Tennessee Voters Project

Call Number: Mss 245; Tape 298A

Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) and 1 tape recording

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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Abstract:

Correspondence and subject files of the West Tennessee Voters Project (WTVP), formerly the Fayette County, Tennessee Project, concerning voter registration drives, discrimination in employment, school desegregation, and the formation of the Tennessee Freedom Labor Union in Tipton, Hayward, Fayette, and Hardeman Counties. On tape Z. A. Forrest and Annie L. Jackson, candidates for Hayward County magistrate in 1966, discuss their political careers with Jim Amory of the WTVP.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00245

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Acquisition Information

Papers presented by Bob and Vicki Gabriner, Madison, Wisconsin, September 20, 1966. Tape presented by James Amory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1966. Accession Number: M66-331, M66-329

Processing Information

Processed by PD and KG, February 14, 1973.

Mss 245 Box   1 Folder   1	Addresses, Staff
Box   1 Folder   2	Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Box   1 Folder   3	Civil Rights Commissions
Box   1 Folder   4	Clippings
Box   1 Folder   5	Coop-Community Center
Box   1 Folder   6	Correspondence, General
Box   1 Folder   7	Correspondence, Douglas Dowd and Cornell
Box   1 Folder   8	Election Material
Box   1 Folder   9	Fayette County Citizens Committee
Box   1 Folder   10	Fayette County Student Union
Box   1 Folder   11	Financial Records
Box   1 Folder   12	Financial Supporters
Box   1 Folder   13	Food Stamps
Box   1 Folder   14	Freedom School
Box   1 Folder   15	Highlander Center Workshop
Box   1 Folder   16	Public Accommodations, Affidavits
Box   1 Folder   17	Public Officials and Attorneys
Box   1 Folder   18	Road Improvement Petitions
Box   1 Folder   19	School Integration
Box   1 Folder   20	Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Box   1 Folder   21	Staff Information Sheets
Tape 298A	Tape Recorded Interview by Jim Amory, 1966 summer Scope and Content Note: Z.A. Forrest and Mrs. Annie L. Jackson, candidates for magistrate in Hayward County, Tennessee, detail their experiences of political persecution. Introduction and summation by Russell Sugarman, a Memphis lawyer.
Mss 245 Box   1 Folder   22	Tennessee Freedom Labor Union
Box   1 Folder   23	WATS Reports
Box   1 Folder   24	West Tennessee Freedom Press