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IN THEIR WORDS
There's nothing like a first-person perspective. On this section (now under development) of Tennessee History for Kids we will tell you exactly what was said by someone who was there. 
Private Sam Watkins
Ida Wells PHOTO: Library of Congress Martin Luther King said "I have seen the mountaintop" in a Memphis speech on April 3, 1968. Click here to read an excerpt from it. Click here to read a first-person account of his assassination, which took place the next day.
Speaking of the Civil Rights Movement, we have first-person accounts from numerous stages and individuals -- from Ida Wells being forced from the ladies section of a Memphis train in 1884 and Myles Horton organizing an integrated dinner in Knoxville in 1928 to Viola McFerrin's involvement in the tent city movement in Fayette County in 1959 and Bernard Lafayette imprisoned in the 1950s for taking part in the Nashville sit ins. We can describe things for you, but not as well as someone who saw it for themselves. So click here to see what a turn-of-the-century cotton mill looked like to a young newspaper reporter.
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