Nashville (Tenn.) | Who Speaks for the Negro?

Related Media

RPW to Charles Evers letter 2/24/1964

RPW asks about Evers's position on nonviolence regarding statements printed in the Nashville Banner

View

Nashville (Tenn.)

Related Interviews

View all interviews

Stephen Wright

Wright discusses the civil rights movement in Nashville and how it is different from movements in the North and the “deep...

More

Avon N. Williams, Jr.

Williams discusses his internship training under Zephaniah Alexander Looby, an African American lawyer in Nashville....

More

James M. Lawson, Jr.

Lawson discusses his education and his interest in civil rights. Lawson explains how the sit-ins in Nashville,...

More

Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities ©2025 | About | Contact

Original materials provided by the University of Kentucky and Yale University libraries and digitized with the permission of the Warren estate. Digital archive created and designed by the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University.