Town of Farragut Museum Committee’s Black History Month program
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W. James Taylor started and ended the program with songs including Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “We Shall Overcome.” - Photos by Tammy Cheek
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Edmund Terry, a student representative for the Farragut Museum Committee, read the words of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s letter from a Birmingham jail. - Photos by Tammy Cheek
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Among those representing the Town of Farragut was Mayor Ron Williams, with Dorothy Stone - Photos by Tammy Cheek
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Mary Turner, left, and Dr. Cynthia Fleming - Photos by Tammy Cheek
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From left, Sally Dickie, Jud Hightower and Arlene Atkinson - Photos by Tammy Cheek
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Donna Davis was among the guests during Farragut Museum Committee’s Black History Month Program. - Photos by Tammy Cheek
Resistance from repression did not begin with the Civil Rights Act — it was there from the beginning in Africa, Dr. Cynthia Fleming, a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professor told an audience during Town of Farragut Museum Committee’s Black History Month program in Farragut Community Center Sunday afternoon, Feb. 26.
“They found ingenious ways to resist. Many ran away with help of abolitionists.
“There were white people with a conscience who tried to help,”
-Dr. Cynthia Fleming — a UT-Knoxville professor who was the first Black woman to earn a doctorate degree in history at Duke University — about the fight to end slavery
