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3 years

@phunk42 @mollymcghee We know at least one copy of the poster on the left exists with the Gay Rodeo Archives: The history is a little off. The Chute was one of Nashville's most popular gay bars, but it wasn't the first. That title belongs to The Jungle, which open in 1952.

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5 years ago today, Black students started the latest wave of protests against #ForrestHall at #MTSU , the ROTC building named after Confederate general & KKK leader Nathan Bedford Forrest. This is a thread confronting the Confederacy on campus.

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wow, okay, unfollowing now. was a huge fan of her archival outreach but didn't realize she not only let that guy steal the declaration of independence but she also handled it with gloves AND brushed lemon juice onto it?! 😩

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4 years

Happy Pi(e) Day! #PiDay2021 #Archives

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The Black Craftspeople Digital Archive website is officially LIVE!!! Founded in 2019, the BCDA brings together scholars, students, museums and archives professionals and the public to collaborate and spread the story of black craftspeople.

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5 years

July 28 would be Jacqueline Kennedy's 90th birthday, so on this #FlashbackFriday we remember her visit to Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1959, where she joined the tour with JFK and Senator Gore. 📷: Ed Westcott/ORNL

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4 years

World War I era goggles were often laminated with a mixture of cellulose nitrate and camphor. The discoloration and cracking you see here is most likely due to chemical instability over time. Now we just try to prevent further damage. #ArchivesHorrorStories #WWI

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4 years

Archivists build up those muscles cranking open compact shelving. 💪 Here's a look at where our processed regional collections live. 🥰 #ArchivesVirtualVisit #ArchivesHashtagParty

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Myrtle Glanton Lord taught for 42 years in Rutherford County, and was named Tennessee's Most Outstanding African American Woman in 1999 and inducted to the TN Teachers Hall of Fame in 2002. #ArchivesBlackEducation #ArchivesHashtagParty #BHM 📷 CHP Records, University Archives

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5 years

Marion Coleman Peck was quite the leading lady--she was one of the few women to cover war maneuvers during #WWII , she wrote speeches for TN governors, she owned her own fire dept., and so much more! #ArchivesLadiesWhoLead

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4 years

Okay, fine, we'll share the Bill Clinton-Al Gore inauguration pop-up hat again. If we must! #ArchivesTipOfTheHat #ArchivesHashtagParty

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5 years

"What's your largest collection?" #AskAnArchivist Our namesake can answer that! The Albert Gore, Sr. Papers is our largest paper collection. It covers four rows that look just like this:

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3 years

tell me you've been digitizing newspapers without telling me you've been digitizing newspapers #InkyFingers #ThatArchivesLife

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4 years

You've heard of Elf on a Shelf, but what about.... Gore in a Drawer? 😂

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5 years

We should probably start this since we ate all of our quarantine snacks in one day. 😬

JFK Library

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5 years

Are you exercising at home and need some inspiration? Download the the *official* US Physical Fitness Program and get to moving! It has JFK’s stamp of approval.

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3 years

#10YearChallenge ...how about 110 Year Challenge?

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4 years

It's @MTSU 's birthday! 🥳 💙 Middle Tennessee State Normal School opened on September 11, 1911. One of the oldest artifacts in University Archives is this payroll ledger from the first month. #HappyBirthday #LetsEatCake

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5 years

Our archivists, Donna Baker and Sarah Calise, wrote this essay for @ncph 's History @Work blog on archiving student activism and reconciling the archival record. #ArchivesMonth

A Redemptive Model of Labor: Documenting student activism at Middle Tennessee State | National...

Editors’ Note: This is one post in a series of posts about the intersection of archives and public history that will be published throughout October, or Archives Month in the United States. This...

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50 years ago this week--on Dec. 8 and 10--two crosses were burned on #MTSU 's campus. It is still an unsolved hate crime. Let's take a look back at the context for these violent acts of white supremacy, and why it matters today. #MTSUCrossBurnings ✨ THREAD ✨

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3 years

POV you are photographs in a Hollinger box and the archivists are looking at you funny

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4 years

Pandemic edition: 1. We're doing our best! 2. We don't like this either! 3. The pandemic has intensified the fact that we are very underfunded, under-resourced and understaffed. Alexa, play This Is Me Trying by Taylor Swift #AskAnArchivist

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4 years

Today we placed the @USNatArchives "Rightfully Hers" pop-up display on the history of the 19th Amendment in front of the Gore Center in Todd Hall. It will be up thru the end of 2020. #19SuffrageStories Please wear a mask while reading the display. 😷

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5 years

In honor of the recent 500th win for #MTSU 's men's basketball team we present a #FlashbackFriday to our historic upset in the 1982 NCAA tournament, in which the Blue Raiders eliminated Kentucky from the Mideast Regional with a 50-44 win. Congrats! 🏀💙

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3 years

Happy Birthday to Tennessee's queen, Dolly Parton! 🥰 Image from the 1987 Midlander yearbook, University Archives

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3 years

Do we post this photo from our #WWII collections every Women's History Month? Yes. Do we care? No. Because WOMEN!

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6 years

Technically no one asked, but we'll tell you anyway: archives are NOT neutral. "Archives have never been neutral – they are the creation of human beings, who have politics in their nature." - @jmddrake #AskAnArchivist

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We don't know their story, but we are willing to write a 200k word fanfic about it. #ArchivesOnWheels #ArchivesHashtagParty Image from the Blanche Clardy Boyd scrapbook

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4 years

Hand fan distributed in Nashville, Tennessee urging support for woman's suffrage in the South. Tennessee was the 36th and final state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment. From the Walter King Hoover Collection. #ArchivesGetsTheVote #ArchivesHashtagParty #Suffrage100

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4 years

We got an accessible door now for our stacks! #TheFutureIsAccessible This will help our staff more easily steer heavy carts between the storage area and the research room. It will also make the space more accessible for staff or visitors with mobility aids.

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And here we are. #ForrestHall has survived 50+ years of protests. But as always, Black students persist. The latest protest against Forrest Hall occurred on May 31, 2020 as part of #BLM protests after the murder of George Floyd. Let's fight for a better world. #BlackLivesMatter

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3 years

Scanning photographs can be fun, but other times it's like 🎶 do you get deja vu? 🎶

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4 years

For those that can't bake, we pour our Wheaties and milk and call it a day. In 1999, U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon was honored with his own Wheaties box for being The Science Coalition's "Champion of Science." #ArchivesBakeOff #ArchivesHashtagParty

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#MTSU students gather around a television in the Keathley University Center to watch Barack Obama's inauguration on January 22, 2009. Do you think you'll remember where you were when you watched the historic swearing-in of Kamala Harris? #Inauguration #InaugurationHistory

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7 years

When your squad is all about increasing civic engagement thru the League of Women Voters of Murfreesboro 🙌 #ArchivesSquadGoals

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6 years

The fall semester starts on Monday, which means @MT_FB hits the field soon, too! #FlashbackFriday to our MT Normal football squad, leather helmets and all. #MTSU 🏈🍂🍁

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6 years

Our favorite part about back to school is all of the new school productions! These students @HPCS_TN sang their way into the Wild Wild West for this performance. #ArchivesBackToSchool #ArchivesHashtagParty

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3 years

Rest in Power, Sidney Poitier. In 1972, Poitier came to @mtsu to visit his god-daughter and surprised Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority for their founding celebration. Photo from University Archives.

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4 years

The MOST STYLISH basketball team you ever did see. The real #MarchMadness is the uniforms we judged along the way. #ArchivesTipOfTheHat #ArchivesHashtagParty Image: 1920 #MTSU women's basketball team, University Archives

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4 years

Today is the 35th annual National Girls & Women in Sports Day, which is celebrated to inspire girls and women to "play and be active, to realize their full power." #LeadHerForward #PlayLikeAGirl ⛹🏽‍♀️ @WomensSportsFdn All images are from #MTSU University Archives.

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i am a: ⚪️ woman ⚪️ man 🔘stressed #MTSU student looking for a: ⚪️ book ⚪️ pencil 🔘 snowstorm so i don't have to do finals #ArchivesSweaterWeather #ArchivesHashtagParty

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7 years

Any '90s kids out there remember going to your school's roller-skate dance parties? 😂 These @HPCS_TN students from 1994 look like they're having a great time! (Image source: HPCS Papers) #ArchivesDanceParty

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4 years

Oooo we are excited for this! Some of our favorite documents in Senator Gore's papers are his tips for JFK on how to intimidate Nixon in the televised debates. Check out the doc in our tweet below. ⬇️

JFK Library

@JFKLibrary

4 years

We’re excited to share the trailer for our special podcast series, 60/20: The Election of 1960 and Its Echoes Today, which will highlight key stories and lesser-known moments from the race that landed JFK in the White House. Learn more:

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Striped sweaters were all the rage for this 1924 football team from Bradley Academy in Murfreesboro, TN. #ArchivesSweaterWeather #ArchivesHashtagParty 📷: Records of the #MTSU Center for Historic Preservation

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5 years

Our top #ArchivesHistoryCrush goes to John Henry Tucker, who was born right here in Murfreesboro and served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, earning a Purple Heart. Many Gore Center staff admittedly have heart eyes for him and his oral history! 😍 #ArchivesHashtagParty

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3 years

. @MTSU turns 110 years old this week! 🥳 Middle Tennessee State Normal School opened on 9/11/1911 with 125 enrolled students and 19 faculty. All week long, we will be sharing blog posts on university history written by our students, so stay tuned. #IAmTrueBlue #MTSU

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4 years

The exhibit I AM TRUE BLACK is officially OPEN!!!!! First floor of @mtsulibrary just beyond the elevators. It will be open until May 6, 2021. #BlackHistoryMatters #MTSU For visiting hours:

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3 years

Today we're at the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Tennessee State Library and Archives building. Here are just some of the awesome @MTSUNews alumni that preserve and share our state's great history! All graduates of @mtsuhistory . 😁

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6 years

This voting booth from the 2000 presidential elections in Palm Beach County, Florida--yes THAT election--is probably one of the larger artifacts in our collections. Sometimes we set it up and invite students to try casting a ballot. #ArchivesArtifacts #ArchivesHashtagParty

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4 years

He wrote a guest column called, "Dixie: What Does it Mean?" This column started a huge debate on campus to rid the school of Forrest and its Confederate symbols. #ForrestHall Link to his column:

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5 years

Our all-woman team of archivists curated a #Suffrage100 exhibit that opened last week. Some of the women highlighted in the exhibit are Sojourner Truth, Jane Addams, Ida B. Wells, Mary Church Terrell, and J. Frankie Pierce. #ArchivesLadiesWhoLead

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5 years

We've seen a lot of our colleagues answering the "gloves or no gloves?" question, and it's true we really only use gloves for photos and objects. #AskAnArchivist

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BSU got the first Black history courses started. They held their own educational events. In 1970, they sponsored "Get Hip Whitey Week" to teach their fellow students about Black history & culture. #ForrestHall

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4 years

I AM TRUE BLACK opens tomorrow!!!!! First floor of Walker Library just beyond the elevators.

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When Black students began attending MTSU in the 1960s, this is the racist atmosphere they encountered. In 1968, one Black student from Memphis, Sylvester Brooks, had enough. He decided to speak out in @MTSUSidelines . Brooks, left, with fellow student Robert Rucker.

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4 years

What a glow up. 😍

JFK Library

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4 years

Solving archival issues before they cause permanent loss of the historical record requires supplies, time, and trained staff - things many archives don’t have enough of. We’re grateful for the chance to fix the #ArchivesHorrorStories we can! 📷: Papers before & after preservation

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Rest in power, John Lewis. Nashville will never forget your courage as a young leader in the civil rights movement here and across the South. 💔 #GoodTrouble

John Lewis

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4 years

59 years ago today I was released from Parchman Farm Penitentiary after being arrested in Jackson, MS for using a so-called "white" restroom during the Freedom Rides of 1961.

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The Johnny Hayes Political Memorabilia Collection has lots of different buttons representing organizations involved in political and social issues, like this one from the National Abortion Rights Action League. #PoliticalHistory #ReproductiveJustice

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We would LOVE to have more things digitized. Truly. But, unfortunately, digitizing takes a lot more money, time, and staffing than people realize. Learn more about archives & the digitization from this @contingent_mag article.

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4 years

Weird research coincidences: We scanned some 1944 @MT_Baseball photos today & thought, "That guy looks just like Smalls from The Sandlot." Then we realized The Sandlot was released in movie theaters on THIS date, April 7, in 1993! 🤯

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We are rolling with excitement for tomorrow's #ArchivesHashtagParty #ArchivesOnWheels ! Might even throw a parade for it, idk. 🥳 Image: Nashville Pride parade, 1990s. OutCentral Collection. #TBT #Pride

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4 years

Black women were the backbone of the Civil Rights Movement, but often textbooks do not give them the accolades they deserve. For this International Women's Day, we take a closer look at some of the women of #MTSU 's Black student movement.

I AM TRUE BLACK: The Women of the Movement

Written by Sarah Calise, Archivist A collage of images from MTSU University Archives featuring Black women at the university. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, John Lewis, Medgar Evers, Stokely Carmic…

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We're kicking off #ArchivesOutdoors with a #WWII soldier-in-training and an adorable puppy taking a much deserved nap by a tree. 😭❤️ 📷: Marion Coleman Peck Papers

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3 years

Today is #WorldTeachersDay and we will always value our University's founding as a training school for teachers! This image features a Campus School class with their teacher, circa 1920s, from the Alumni Photographs Collection. 🍎

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Our University Archivist, Donna Baker, received the Wayne C. Rosing LGBT+ Advocacy Award on Saturday night at the LGBT+ College Conference awards dinner. Congratulations, Donna! 👏👏👏

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NEW EXHIBIT: "Battle for the Ballot: The Story of Women's Suffrage in the United States" is now open on @mtsulibrary 's first floor. It will be on display through spring semester. 💛💜 #Suffrage100 #WomensHistoryMonth

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#TBT to Senator Gore in his office reading his very long CVS receipt...😉 No, seriously, January has felt as long as these papers. We're ready to welcome February and the next #ArchivesHashtagParty !

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4 years

Sharing this fan again because it's one of our favorite items related to #WWII . 😍 #ArchivesVeterans #ArchivesHashtagParty

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4 years

Here are the items we've uploaded so far that feature Black soldiers: This item: Fan designed with an image of a Black woman in the Women's Army Corps. Distributed by Lucky Heart Company located in Memphis, Tennessee.

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#MTSU 's first Black athlete on scholarship was Jerry Singleton, who Coach Dean Hayes recruited from Chicago to run for our track & field team. During his time as a Blue Raider, he set records that lasted for decades. #ArchivesAthletes #ArchivesHashtagParty

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#TBT to when #MTSU students protested the Vietnam War as part of the Moratorium to End the War movement in 1969. #ThrowbackThursday Image from News and Public Affairs Collection

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Happening now: Al Gore, Jr. discusses his father's legacy in Congress with Dr. Anthony Badger, Dr. Mary Evins, Kent Syler, and Dr. Louis Kyriakoudes. #MTSU #AlGore

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#AskAnArchivist : In light of the new red flag meme, we would like to ask our fellow archivists: what are some archives red flags? We'll go first. "I found this box of old newspaper clippings in my basement." 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩

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@phunk42 🥰❤

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Who doesn't love a good Prom pose?! The back caption reads, "March 1945. Washington D.C. in cherry blossom time. Germaine (the apartment mate) and I. Love Billie." #ArchivesHistoryCrush #archiveshashtagparty 📷 Vickie L. Riggan Collection

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But loving him was RED...❤️ Welcome to the #ArchivesRed Thread! Our graduate assistants pulled red items from our archival collections to celebrate #RedTaylorsVersion

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Today is #PronounsDay , a day which seeks to make respecting, sharing, and educating about personal pronouns commonplace. Here's a great post from the @AHAhistorians about the history of pronouns, specifically the singular they.

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Happening Now: our G.A. Keneisha Mosley (left) is on a panel with @learothawms and Leslie Jones on "Opening the Cheekwood Archives: Discussing the Staff and the African American Community in Nashville from 1915-1940."

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We miss our grad students the most during this time. 😭 Most of our exhibits are developed by them, so they can get hands-on experience in #PublicHistory . Here's some behind-the-scenes looks. #ArchivesVirtualVisit

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The irony of us not being able to participate in #ArchivesOnTheJob today because our political archivist, who doubles as our social media manager, is currently...on the job helping a researcher. 😄 #ArchivesHashtagParty (this was a scheduled tweet)

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The women pilots of the Tennessee @TheNinetyNines think flying is the best way to be #ArchivesOutdoors ! #ArchivesHashtagParty 🛩️ 📷: Tennessee Aviation Hall of Fame Collection

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Guess where one of our archivists is headed tomorrow...the National Museum of African American Music ( @theNMAAM )! 😁 Follow us on Instagram @ mtsugorecenter for a look inside this wonderful new museum that recently opened in Nashville!

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In the 1960s, MTSU also welcomed its first white fraternities. Kappa Alpha in particular used the Confederate flag as part of the frat's image. They adorned the flag at sporting events. "Dixie" was also the school's official fight song. #ForrestHall

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Eventually, both the Forrest Hall Task Force and the Tennessee Board of Regents voted to rename the building. This was all because of the work of Black student activists. #ForrestHall Photo of task force final meeting.

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#OTD 1992: The Internet comes to @MTSUNews ! This memo from the Faculty Senate Papers announced the arrival of the Internet for all MTSU personnel and students. What a time to be alive! 🙌💻

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Enjoy your icy/snow day, #MTSU ! Be nice to your friends. And, yes, this image is the perfect meme. We couldn't resist. 😂🤷🏼‍♀️ Image: 1965 Midlander yearbook

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We're closing this virtual visit with a shout out to our archivists, Sarah and Donna, who continue to fulfill research requests, process, and digitize collections during this time. They hope it's safe to see you in-person soon! #ArchivesVirtualVisit #ArchivesHashtagParty

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We're riding into the weekend in style. 😎 Check out this photo of a horse and buggy in front of @MTSU 's Kirksey Old Main building. The photo comes from Blanche Clardy Boyd's scrapbook. She took classes at MT Normal from 1919 to 1922. #FlashbackFriday

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The Black Craftspeople Digital Archive is happy to announce that they have officially launched the Tennessee portion of the digital archive and map! #BlackHistoryMatters

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Has anyone been able to combine #ArchivesPoolParty with #NationalDoughnutDay yet?

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Archival boxes and carts are useful for so many things...like propping up a laptop for Zoom! Donna is meeting with the Rutherford County Retired Teachers and showing off some of our wonderful education collections. #OnlineLearning

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Wanna give an archivist a heart attack? Tell them you found nitrate film...that went undetected for YEARS. Read about our horror story on our blog. #ArchivesHorrorStories

Burn It Down: Finding Nitrate Film in the Archive

Written by Casey Swank, Graduate Assistant The archivists and graduate assistants here at the Albert Gore Research Center have a running joke: if things in the archive start going south, just burn …

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Rollin into #ArchivesOnWheels with the BIG GAY BOAT RIDE! 🌈😆 #ArchivesHashtagParty #Pride Image: Nashville Pride parade, 1990s, from the OutCentral Collection

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Congrats to @theNMAAM team for all their hard work to open this amazing museum in Middle Tennessee! We can't wait to visit soon! #BlackHistoryMatters

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Welcome to the National Museum of African American Music! Our doors are finally open, and we're ready to share the history of African American music with you. #NMAAM #ThePowerofOne

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Aleshia Brevard was a transgender woman who attended #MTSU in the mid-1960s before having a successful career as an actress, Playboy bunny, model and author. Learn more: #ArchivesLadiesWhoLead

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5 years

Four years ago today, a group of courageous Black students led a protest against the name of (Nathan Bedford) Forrest Hall at MTSU. Historically, Confederate symbols on campus have been protested in several waves since 1968. Here are some photos & fliers from that day:

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@MTSUGoreCenter

3 years

Important update on #ForrestHall .

Board of Trustees endorses 2nd effort to get state OK for removal of Forrest Hall name

Middle Tennessee State University’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously Tuesday to support efforts to gain state permission to remove the name of Confederate Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest’s name …

mtsunews.com

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Gore Center

@MTSUGoreCenter

5 years

Our archivists are also quite fond of this photo because they think one of the suffragists is a @Harry_Styles doppelgänger. It's led to some popular voter registration fliers on campus! 😂

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@MTSUGoreCenter

5 years

Nothing says #ArchivesOutdoors better than a postcard of a black bear raiding a garbage can in @GreatSmokyNPS . #ArchivesHashtagParty 😂 📷: Regina Forsythe Collection

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@MTSUGoreCenter

4 years

Happy Friday, and happy #ArchivesHashtagParty ! We're excited to get wild with y'all for #ArchivesWildlife . Let's start off with this super cute photo of this member of the Women's Army Corps holding a baby deer. 😭 Vickie L. Riggan Collection

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