User:Mitchumch/Knoxville movement

Knoxville movement
Part of the Civil Rights Movement
Location	Knoxville, Tennessee

Notable subtopics

Knoxvilee sit-ins and merchant boycott: June 9, 1960 - July 12, 1960

• Associated Council for Full Citizenship (ACFC)
• Mt. Olive Baptist Church, meeting place for ACFC members
  • Reverend W. T. Crutcher, co-chairman of ACFC
• Knoxville Police Department
  • Police chief
• Knoxville press
  • Knoxville News-Sentinel

• Reverend Robert James, co-chairman of ACFC
• Knoxville College
  • Robert Booker, Knoxville College student leader in 1960
  • Jerry Pate, Hampton Institute student, Knoxville native, demonstrator
  • Dr. Robert Harvey, faculty member in 1960
  • Dr. William MacAurthur, co-chairman of ACFC
• Knoxville merchants demonstrated against
  • Woolworth's
  • McDonald's Restaurant
  • Cole's Drug Store
  • Rich's Department Store
    • "Trade With Your Friends"
    • "Stay Away From Downtown" campaign
• Austin High School
  • Ann Robinson, student in 1960
• Tennessee Valley Authority
  • Harry Wiersma, northern white engineer, demonstrator, organizer
• Unitarian Church
  • Pastor Robert West, opposed to sit-ins in 1960
• Knoxville Area Human Relations Council
  • Galen Martin

See also

• James A. Colston, president of Knoxville College
• John Duncan, Sr., mayor of Knoxville 1959-1964

Further reading

Books

• Clemmons, Jeff (2013). Rich's: A Southern Institution. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press. ISBN 9781626190665.

Journals

• Fleming, Cynthia Griggs (Spring 1990). "White Lunch Counters and Black Consciousness: The Story of the Knoxville Sit-ins" (PDF). Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 49: 40–52.
• Zagumny, Lisa L. (Winter 2001). "Sit-Ins in Knoxville, Tennessee: A Case Study of Public Rhetoric". The Journal of Negro History. 86 (1).

External links

• Fleming, Cynthia Griggs (December 25, 2009). "Sit-ins, Knoxville". Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. Tennessee Historical Society and University of Tennessee Press. Retrieved 21 July 2015.