Social movements

Description From the Series: The Administrative Files series documents Derryberry’s work during his term as President of Tennessee Tech University. Materials include meeting minutes, subject files, clippings, correspondence, financial records, reports, annotated publications on education topics, and records of Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) accreditation visits and self-study preparation. The SACS records are useful for compilations of university wide statistics and reports on academic programs,...

Description From the Series: The Administrative Files series documents Derryberry’s work during his term as President of Tennessee Tech University. Materials include meeting minutes, subject files, clippings, correspondence, financial records, reports, annotated publications on education topics, and records of Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) accreditation visits and self-study preparation. The SACS records are useful for compilations of university wide statistics and reports on academic programs,...

Description From the Series: The Administrative Files series documents Derryberry’s work during his term as President of Tennessee Tech University. Materials include meeting minutes, subject files, clippings, correspondence, financial records, reports, annotated publications on education topics, and records of Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) accreditation visits and self-study preparation. The SACS records are useful for compilations of university wide statistics and reports on academic programs,...

Description From the Series: The Administrative Files series documents Derryberry’s work during his term as President of Tennessee Tech University. Materials include meeting minutes, subject files, clippings, correspondence, financial records, reports, annotated publications on education topics, and records of Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) accreditation visits and self-study preparation. The SACS records are useful for compilations of university wide statistics and reports on academic programs,...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Boxes 1-12 contain records pertaining to campus clubs and organizations (1963-2016).

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...