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Amber Perkins Won't Back Down

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Title	Amber Perkins Won't Back Down
Newspaper	Sidelines
Publisher	Middle Tennessee State University
Date	2007-03-26
Coverage	2000-2009
Description	News article on Amber Perkins, one of the leaders of Students Against Forrest Hall. The article also discusses how former MTSU student Sylvester Brooks, a black student activist from the 1960s, advised Perkins on how to handle backlash from white people.
Contextual note	From roughly 2005 to 2007, Black students held protests on changing the name of Forrest Hall, the ROTC building.
Subject-Keyword	Forrest Hall; Confederate symbols; campus life; protests; activism; newspapers
Subject-LCSH	African American college students Protest movements Race relations Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877 College buildings Demonstrations Middle Tennessee State University Middle Tennessee State University--History Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Racism--United States
Language	English
Type	Text
Format	application/pdf
Genre	Newspaper
Repository	Albert Gore Research Center, Middle Tennessee State University
Copyright status	Not protected by copyright

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