Social Movements collection
Content Description
Documents activism and responses to activism in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee. Topics include activism against anti-Black police brutality and criminizalization of poverty. Content warning: some responses to protests contain dehumanizing, white supremacist, anti-Black racist, and antisemitic language and images. Some responses also call for and glorify violence against protesters.
Physical materials include four signs from the June 6, 2020 Black Lives Matter protests for George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at Cookeville's Courthouse Square. One sign includes a Pride and Black Lives Matters statement. Three are black and white and one is colored.
The Black Voters Matter signs are from a campus event co-organized by the Tennessee Tech University Student Chapter of the NAACP and the NAACP Cookeville-Putnam County Branch. The "Poverty is not a Crime" sign was from protests regarding City Council's attempt to ban all panhandling in Putnam County.
Dates
- 2016 - 2021
Creator
- Tennessee Technological University. Archives and Special Collections (Organization)
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Cookeville-Putnam County Branch (Organization)
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Tennessee Technological University Chapter (Organization)
Extent
506.42 Megabytes
4 Sheets
Language of Materials
English
- Civil rights movements Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Demonstrations Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- People experiencing homelessness Subject Source: Local sources
- Social movements Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Voter registration Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- picket signs Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- social media Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Title
- Social Movements collection
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Tennessee Tech University Special Collections Repository
1100 North Peachtree Avenue
PO Box 5066
Cookeville Tennessee 38505 United States
archives@tntech.edu
