Tennessee Newspaper Digitization Project

CTL-E-4221 · Event · other · 2020s

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University of Tennessee project for which assistant professor Louisa Trott compiled 20+ Black Knoxville newspapers; many were lost because biased collecting institutions did not preserve them.

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The Tennessee newspaper-digitization work, for which UT assistant professor Louisa Trott compiled 20+ Black Knoxville newspapers, is a University of Tennessee project.

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Knox News - TELLING 'THE FULL STORY' (Black newspapers, Louisa Trott)
Knox News - TELLING 'THE FULL STORY' (Black newspapers, Louisa Trott)
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Record CTL-E-4221 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: VERIFIED · 3 sources · 1 mapped relationship · CTL research: RELP-001.
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