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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Jerry Fanion
Jerry Fanion
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| Other authors / contributors: | Fanion, Gerald, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry, interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Memphis, Tennessee 2010 July 26.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Civil rights activist and city administrator Jerry Fanion was born in 1931, in Memphis, Tennessee. Fanion graduated from Booker T. Washington High School and began working for the postal service, before serving as director of the Shelby County Community Relations Commission in the early 1960s. During this time, he assisted the efforts of many Civil Rights Movement luminaries, including James Meredith and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Fanion was involved with the Memphis sanitation workers' strike that took place in 1968, and worked to get the city government to recognize the sanitation workers' union. He was attacked by policemen and arrested on several occasions in spite of his position in the city government. He was also a member of The Invaders, a militant African American political organization associated with the sanitation strikers, which eventually merged with the Black Panther Party in 1969. Fanion passed away on July 30, 2010.
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