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Photo from Memphis Press Scimitar Morgue in Special Collections, University of Memphis Libraries.

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Duncan, Alice. Evicted: The Struggle for the Right to Vote. Calkins Creek, 2022. Print

Fendrich, James M., and Alison T. Tarleau. "Marching to a Different Drummer: Occupational and Political Correlates of Former Student Activists." Social Forces 52.2 (1973): 245-53. Print.

Forman, James. The Making of Black Revolutionaries. University of Washington Press, 1972. Print.

Hamburger, Robert. Our Portion of Hell: Fayette County, Tennessee: An Oral History of the Struggle for Civil Rights. Links, 1973. Print.

Haynie, Aeron, and Timothy S. Miller. A Memoir of the New Left: The Political Autobiography of Charles A. Haynie. Univ. of Tennessee Press, 2009. Print.

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Litwack, Leon F. How Free is Free?: The Long Death of Jim Crow. 6 Vol. Harvard University Press, 2009. Print.

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