Excerpts from an interview with Betty Nixon on 16 June 2004 by Kathryn G. Bennett as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Nixon discusses childhood experiences that led to her awareness of segregation and...
Excerpts from an interview with civil rights activists Bernard LaFayette, Jr., James Bevel and Ernest Rip Patton conducted on 17 January 2003 by Kathryn G. Bennett. In the excerpts Rev. Bernard LaFayette, Jr. discusses his decision as a young man...
Excerpts from an interview with civil rights leader Dr. Rodney N. Powell on 29 March 2005 by Kathy Bennett as part of the Civil Rights Oral History Project. In the excerpts Rodney Powell talks about social conscience; being part of the student...
Excerpts from an interview with civil rights leaders Guy and Candie Carawan on 17 January 2003 by Kathy Bennett as part of the Civil Rights Oral History Project. In the excerpts Candie and Guy Carawan discuss Candie's parents' reaction to her...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Craig Owensby, Public Information Officer of the Metropolitan Nashville Planning Department, conducted on March 18, 2011 by Susannah Gibbons and Harvey Bennett as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History...
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...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Monette Rebecca conducted on July 08, 2011 by Susannah Gibbons as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Monette Rebecca, Executive Director of the Richland Creek Watershed Alliance, discusses...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Barbara Belfiglio, conducted on August 18, 2011 by Annette Pilcher as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. The topics discussed include Barbara’s rescue and her stay at the Gordon Jewish...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Leigh Spruill conducted on May 26, 2011 by Annette Pilcher as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Reverend Leigh Spruill, rector of St. George’s Episcopal Church, describes the flooding of...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Rob McDonald, conducted on August 26, 2011 by Susannah Gibbons as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Rob McDonald discusses water rescues in Bellevue, Councilman Bo Mitchell, evacuations, and...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Scott Potter conducted on February 04, 2011 by Andrea Blackman as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Scott Potter, director of Metro Water Services, discusses the severity of losing the K.R....
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Kevin Penney, Office of Emergency Management Deputy Director, conducted on February 03, 2011 by Andrea Blackman as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Kevin Penney discusses emergency response...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Daryl Etheridge and Bryon Olsen , conducted on April 22, 2011 by Lindsay Scott as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. The topics discussed include rebuilding of the Lighthouse Christian...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Mayor Karl Dean, conducted on January 20, 2011 by Andrea Blackman as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Topics discussed include tourism, recovery, CMA, downtown businesses, Gaylord,...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Tiffani Zuch, conducted on 16 April 2011 by Robin Robinson as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Tiffani describes the flooding of her Pennington Bend neighborhood, her evacuation by boat,...
A two page letter to Henry C. Hibbs from Arch Trawick written on Jersey Farms Milk Service stationary. The letter reads like a poem in the form of a request for the design of an elaborate building that would be "…Stocked with books of sages/...
A postcard of the Tower at the Scarritt Bennett College for Christian Workers in Nashville, Tennessee. The original conference, retreat and educational center was originally Scarritt Bible and Training School for young women missionaries in Kansas...
A photographic view looking towards Vanderbilt University through the archway of Scarritt College for Christian Workers, October 21, 1928. Located on Nineteenth Avenue South, in Nashville, Tennessee, Scarritt College came to Nashville from Kentucky...
A photographic view looking northeast from Scarritt Tower, of Scarritt College for Christian Workers, October 21, 1928. Located on Nineteenth Avenue South, in Nashville, Tennessee, Scarritt College came to Nashville from Kentucky in 1924 as a...