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Blount County Black History Project -Then and Now as Told by Those Who Lived It
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0157
Abstract
Charles Pride, Dorothy Kincaid, and Jo Davenport formed CDJ Media Productions to conduct and record interviews with black Blount County residents who helped shape the community during and after the integration of the schools in 1969. Their idea for collecting interviews was formed in 2007 when they identified an urgency to preserve, in an accurate and positive way, Blount County’s rich black history. Their work resulted in “Blount County’s Black History — As Told by Those Who Lived It — Then...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1959 - 2015; Other: Majority of material found in 2007-2015
Diagram: Cedarlawn Cemetery, City of Alcoa
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Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series is comprised of newspaper clippings, writings, and brochures regarding the project and photographs of interviewees and interview locations. The series also contains records regarding African American history in Blount County and Alcoa and bound collectitons of interview transcripts of interviews conducted in the Maryville area between 1983 and 2007.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1959 - 2015; Other: Majority of material found in 2007-2015