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- Avon N. Williams, Jr., and Marie Bontemps celebrate after Tennessee state Senate race, 1968 August 01
- A photograph of Avon N. Williams, Jr., being congratulated by his wife, Marie Bontemps, and supporters after his successful bid to become the first African American senator in Tennessee since Reconstruction. He ran for state senator from the 19th...
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- 'Might take some dynamite,' Ware told students at Fisk, from the Nashville Banner, 1967 April 10
- A Nashville Banner news clipping article by staff writer Doug Looney covering an address presented at Fisk University by civil rights activist George Ware, of Atlanta, who spoke to students in anthropology professor P.C. Onwuachi's class on April...
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- Fisk University Race Relations Conference, circa 1945
- A photograph of conference participants posed together at the Race Relations Conference at Talley Hall, Fisk University. Fisk began hosting the annual Race Relations Institute in 1944. Organized by Dr. Charles S. Johnson, head of Fisk's sociology...
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