A photograph of Shiloh Baptist Church located at 1117 Second Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. This building was erected in the late 1940s, while the congregation was organized around 1902. The original site of the church was at Rolling Mill...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant DeLois Wilkinson, conducted on 31 October 2002 by Kathy G. Bennett as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Wilkinson...
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...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant Wallace Westfeldt, conducted on 31 October 2002 by Milt Capps as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Westfeldt, a...
A photograph of Good Samaritan Missionary Baptist Church historically located at 515 Houston Street in Nashville, Tennessee. According to the most recent city directory, the church's current address is listed as 509 Houston Street. Originally...
A photograph of Covenant of Faith Community Baptist Church located at 1209 Brick Church Pike in Nashville, Tennessee. Originally built as Grubbs Memorial Baptist Church, this building's address is no longer listed in the Nashville City Directory. ...
A photograph of Hall Memorial Missionary Baptist Church historically located at 5990 Mt. View Road in Antioch, Tennessee. Although most recently recorded as having a 6005 Mt. View Road address, this church is no longer listed in the Nashville City...
A photograph of Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church, currently located at 1307 Ireland Street in Nashville, Tennessee, but originally listed as Hopewell Baptist Church, at 918 Fourteenth Avenue North. According to the survey, the congregation was...
A photograph of Inglewood Baptist Church located at 3901 Gallatin Pike in Nashville, Tennessee. This congregation was established in 1923 and began meeting in a small home on Shelton Avenue. In the late 1920s the congregation began meeting on...
A photograph of Jackson Park Church of Christ located at 4103 Gallatin Pike. Originally the address was listed as 4101 Gallatin Road. The congregation was founded in 1932 by 75 members meeting in a home on Greenland Avenue. Ten months later they...
A photograph of Joseph Avenue Church of Christ located at 1201 Joseph Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The church first appears in the city directory in 1926. In 1977 the name changed to New Joseph Avenue Church of Christ. In 1980 the name...
A photograph of New Bethel Baptist Church located at 1080 Old Dickerson Pike in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. The congregation organized in 1794, two years before Tennessee became a state, six miles North of Nashville on White's Creek Pike. The...
A photograph of St. Bernard Convent and Academy, a private Catholic girls' school located on Hillsboro Road in the Green Hills neighborhood. The school was started by the Sisters of Mercy who came to Tennessee from Rhode Island to start in 1866...
A photograph of St. James African Episcopal Methodist Church located at 1501 Straightway Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The congregation was founded in 1868. The current church was built in 1968. The foundation is made of bricks. The exterior...
A photograph of Security Pawn, a pawnshop located at 3025 Nolensville Road in Nashville, Tennessee. Formerly Fourth Avenue Church of Christ, this building was erected in the 1930s. The church later changed its name to Nolensville Road Church of...
A photograph of St. Phillip's African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church located at 904 Thirty-third Avenue North. According to the original cornerstone, this church was erected in 1936. The foundation is rough cut stone. The exterior walls are...
A photograph of Union Hill Baptist Church located at 1301 Union Hill Road in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. This church's congregation was founded in 1859 as a mission and became a church just a few years later. The original church building's...
A photograph of Trinity Lane Church of Christ originally located at 1081 Trinity Lane in Nashville, Tennessee. The address later changed to 1079 Trinity Lane. Currently the Spanish Pentecostal Church of God inhabits the building. The foundation...
A photograph of Webster Memorial Baptist Church located at 816 W Greenwood Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The foundation is stone. The exterior walls are made of concrete blocks that have been painted white. The front facade has some vertical...
A photograph of West End Church of Christ located at 3532 West End Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The congregation formed in 1943 while the church was constructed in 1948. The architect was Donald Southgate, a prominent Nashville church designer...