The Voices of School Desegregation's Foot Soldiers is a public history project organized and undertaken by the Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation of the University of the South. The Foot Soldiers initiative documents and archives the historical experiences of persons involved in the desegregation of public schools in Franklin County, Tennessee between, roughly, 1963 and 1970.  The project’s efforts include the collection of video and/or audio oral history interviews, as well as material items and artifacts that pertain to this history. It is the mission of the Foot Soldiers initiative to shed light on some of the many students who chose or were forced to be on the front lines of public school desegregation. The project will do so by collecting and preserving these oral histories digitally and making them publicly available through this dedicated website and online archive.