Summary Information

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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Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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