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Title	Excerpt 1 from oral history interview with Wallace Westfeldt, 2002 October 31
Personal name	Westfeldt, Wallace--Interviews
Corporate name	Tennessean (Nashville, Tenn. : 1972)
Topical entry	Civil Rights African Americans Race Relations Business Journalism African Americans--Social conditions African Americans--Social conditions African Americans--Civil rights--Tennessee--Nashville Civil rights--Tennessee--Nashville Civil rights workers--Tennessee--Nashville Civil rights movements--Tennessee--Nashville African Americans--Segregation--Tennessee--Nashville Orphanages--Tennessee--Nashville Newspapers--Tennessee--Nashville Journalism--Tennessee--Nashville Newspaper publishing--Tennessee--Nashville Reporters and reporting--Tennessee--Nashville
Geographic entry	Nashville (Tenn.)--Race relations Nashville (Tenn.)--History Nashville (Tenn.)--Social conditions
Description	An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant Wallace Westfeldt, conducted on 31 October 2002 by Milt Capps as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Westfeldt, a journalist, discusses how he came to cover Nashville's Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s for the Tennessean newspaper. The complete interview, as well as a transcript, is available in the repository.
Creator	Westfeldt, Wallace (Interviewee); Capps, Milt (Interviewer)
Publisher	Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219
Contributors	James, Carolyn (Transcriber)
Date	2002-10-31
Type	Sound; Oral histories
Format	audio/mp3 (2.20 MB; 2 min., 24 sec.)
Identifier	CROHPWestfield11bclip1
Source	Excerpted from: CROHPWestfeldt audio cassette recording(s) converted to mp3 format in 2006.
Language	English
Relation	Civil Rights Oral History Project
Coverage	2000-2009
Rights	U.S. and international copyright laws protect this digital content, which is provided for educational purposes only and may not be downloaded, reproduced, or distributed for any other purpose without written permission. Please contact the Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219. Telephone (615) 862-5782.
Location	Closed Stacks-CROHPWestfield