A photograph of Grace McKinley escorting her daughter Linda Gail McKinley (second girl) and a friend to Fehr Elementary School, corner of Fifth Avenue and Garfield Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 9 September 1957. Mrs. McKinley walks through an irate...
A photograph of irate segregationists exchanging words with supporters of desegregation at Fehr Elementary School, Nashville, Tennessee, 9 September 1957. Police officers escorted African American students into the school, marking the first day of...
A photograph of workshop leaders and participants at the 25th Anniversary Session and meeting of Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee on August 31, 1957. Myles Horton and Don West founded Highlander Folk School in Grundy County, Tennessee,...
A photograph of a massive crowd of silent marchers at the Court House Square, Davidson County Courthouse, James Robertson Parkway, Nashville, Tennessee, April 19, 1960. A crowd of over 3000 participants marched in silence from the campus of...
Based on a 1903 gospel version by Reverend Charles Tindley of Philadelphia, and in 1946, the song for striking employees of the American Tobacco Company, "We Shall Overcome" spread through the country as an anthem for southern African American...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader Nelson Andrews, conducted on 25 August 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project: The Turner...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant Rev. William Lewis Barnes, conducted on 19 December 2002 by Ed Hamlett as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Barnes...
A photograph of Avon N. Williams, Jr., being congratulated by his wife, Marie Bontemps, and supporters after his successful bid to become the first African American senator in Tennessee since Reconstruction. He ran for state senator from the 19th...
A photograph of student demonstrators being arrested and escorted into a paddy wagon after a nonviolent protest at the Greyhound Bus Terminal, 6th Avenue and Commerce Street, Nashville, Tennessee, March 3, 1960. Students continued demonstrations...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville businessman David Swett, Jr., conducted on 17 July 2006 by John Egerton as part of a cooperative effort between the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville businessman David Swett, Jr., conducted on 17 July 2006 by John Egerton as part of a cooperative effort between the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project...
An excerpt from an interview with Charles Galbreath, conducted on May 2, 1995 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Galbreath discusses his role in the consolidation of the city and county governments. He also...
An excerpt from an interview with Amon Carter Evans, conducted on May 23, 1995 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Evans discusses his role in the consolidation of the city and county governments. He also...
An excerpt from an interview with Mansfield Douglas, conducted on January 12, 1995 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Douglas discusses his role in the consolidation of the city and county governments. He...
An excerpt from an interview with Bob Horton, conducted on November 30, 1994 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Horton discusses his role in the consolidation of the city and county governments. He also...
An excerpt from an interview with Buster Boguskie, conducted on January 19, 1995 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Boguskie discusses his role in the consolidation of the city and county governments. He...
An excerpt from an interview with Bob Bogen, conducted on May 2, 1995 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Bogen discusses his role in the consolidation of the city and county governments. He also comments...
An excerpt from an interview with Fate Thomas, conducted on May 30, 1995 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Thomas discusses his role in the consolidation of the city and county governments. He also...
An excerpt from an interview with Milton Sitton, conducted on November 22, 1994 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Sitton discusses his role in the consolidation of the city and county governments. He also...
An excerpt from an interview with Harry Lester, conducted on May 3, 1995 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Lester discusses his role in the consolidation of the city and county governments. He also...