Title	Sylvester Brooks oral history
Creator	Brooks, Sylvester
Contributor(s)	Toomey, Erin, interviewer
Publisher	Albert Gore Research Center
Date	2000-09-30
Coverage	1960-1969
Description	Excerpts of an oral history with Sylvester Brooks, a progressive African-American MTSU student during the 1960s. Brooks shares his memories of MTSU campus life as a minority student during the turbulent 1960s and his advocacy of civil rights
Table of Contents	1. Controversial mascot and campus symbols -- 2. Dixie Controversy.
Audio Clips	(clip 1) http://content.mtsu.edu/cdm4/audiofiles/brooks/brooks1.mp3 ; (clip 2) http://content.mtsu.edu/cdm4/audiofiles/brooks/brooks2.mp3
Subject-Keyword	Dixie Controversy
Subject-LCSH	African Americans African American college students Segregation Race relations Civil Rights Student government Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877
Geographic Location	Murfreesboro, TN; Memphis, TN
Language	eng
Type	Still image Sound
Format	image/jpeg audio/mp3
Genre	Oral history Photograph
Copyright status	Copyright may or may not belong to MTSU Reproduced with permission of the Albert Gore Research Center, MTSU
Conditions for use	May be used freely by individuals for research, teaching, and personal use under the fair use provisions of the Copyright Act Credit: Property of the Albert Gore Research Center, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN 37132 For other uses contact The Albert Gore Research Center, P.O. Box 193, MTSU, Murfreesboro TN 37132
Collection Name	Middle Tennessee Oral History Collection
Contributing Institution	Albert Gore Research Center, Middle Tennessee State University
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Identifying Number	MT2000.024
Date created	2009-05-01