Day 2, April 15 - Presentations
Black heroines for justice: the 1980s terrorism of the Ku Klux Klan in Chattanooga and the women who stood against them
Start Date
15-4-2020 9:00 AM
End Date
15-4-2020 11:00 AM
Publisher
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Place of Publication
Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Abstract
Well after the Jim Crow era, very few have heard of the attack on a group of Black women by the Ku Klux Klan in Chattanooga in 1980 which resulted in two trials, a riot, and eventually a win for justice. This is the story.
Date
4-15-2020
Document Type
presentations
Language
English
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Recommended Citation
Heron, Tiffany, "Black heroines for justice: the 1980s terrorism of the Ku Klux Klan in Chattanooga and the women who stood against them". ReSEARCH Dialogues Conference proceedings. https://scholar.utc.edu/research-dialogues/2020/day2_presentations/7.
Black heroines for justice: the 1980s terrorism of the Ku Klux Klan in Chattanooga and the women who stood against them
Well after the Jim Crow era, very few have heard of the attack on a group of Black women by the Ku Klux Klan in Chattanooga in 1980 which resulted in two trials, a riot, and eventually a win for justice. This is the story.