A Nashville Banner news clipping article by staff writer Doug Looney covering an address presented at Fisk University by civil rights activist George Ware, of Atlanta, who spoke to students in anthropology professor P.C. Onwuachi's class on April...
Pamphlet written by Anna Holden in cooperation with the Nashville Congress of Racial Equality group, 1958. The pamphlet tells how a CORE group helped parents and children, despite the violence of segregationist mobs, to desegregate public schools...
A photograph of A. Z. Kelley and some of the legal team from Kelley v. Board of Education of Nashville in September 1955. Following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, the Supreme Court issued Brown II, ordering that schools to desegregate...
A photograph of Fanning Orphan School, popularly known as Fanning College. The school was chartered in 1881 and opened in 1884. This non-extant school was located about five miles from downtown Nashville, Tennessee, on Couchville Pike (in the...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee and the surrounding area, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks. Original...
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 postcard of Battle Ground Academy and Gymnasium, circa 1909. Established in 1889, the school was named for its original location on the battle ground of the Civil War Battle of Franklin. The first campus was erected at the corner of Columbia...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Bebbie Minter, conducted on 3 October 2007 by her friend Heather Gardner at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville Public Library. ...
A photograph of the old Felix Compton house, located at the northeast corner of Hillsboro Road and Harding Place in Nashville, Tennessee, 5050 Hillsboro Road (Hillsboro Pike), when it was the A.M Burton family residence, circa 1973. This...
An undated copy photograph of United States Army Captain James Pierre Drouillard, an 1861 graduate of West Point and an officer of the United States Army who served in the American Civil War. A native of Gallipolis, Ohio, he is pictured wearing his...
A cabinet card portrait photograph of Captain Pleas A. Smith, a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee on the 10th of November, 1841, and was raised on the "Ewing Farm" six miles south of Nashville. At...
Church of the Advent, Episcopal, was organized in 1857 by 58 communicants of Christ Episcopal Church and its rector the Rev. Charles Tomes after a disagreement over pew rentals. Rev. Tomes died soon after the group formed, and the Rev. Charles T....
A photograph of the Civilian Aviation Authority Localizer house at Nashville’s Berry Field. Nashville's airport officially opened in 1937 as Berry Field, in honor of Colonel Harry S. Berry, the state administrator of the Works Progress...
Mayor Ben West and County Judge Beverly Briley with several government and military officials at the Civil Defense air raid control center at the Nashville YMCA in March 1954. Forms part of Record Group 3, Metro Davidson County Photographer. 5...
Presentation of a check donated by Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to Nashville Mayor Ben West, promoting the Civil Defense program. Forms part of Record Group 3, Metro Davidson County Photographer. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 4 x 5 in.
The introduction of Civil Defense identification chains in Nashville, Tennessee with Mayor Ben West, December 1954. Forms part of Record Group 3, Metro Davidson County Photographer. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 4 x 5 in.
The Civil Defense tent at the Nashville Fair with the Boy Scouts and young children in line to receive their Civil Defense ID tags. Forms part of Record Group 3, Metro Davidson County Photographer. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 4 x 5 in.
1964 Civil Defense training in Nashville, Tennessee, with Mayor Briley and Nashville-Davidson County Civil Defense staff. Forms part of Record Group 3, Metro Davidson County Photographer. 4 photograph negatives : b & w ; 4 x 5 in.
A postcard of the Confederate Soldiers' Home. The Confederate Soldiers' Home was built on the original Hermitage properties in 1892 and served as a retirement home for civil war soldiers. On land southwest of the Hermitage mansion, the soldiers'...
This monument features a statue by George Julian Zolnay of the Confederate boy hero, Sam Davis. The statue dressed in a Confederate uniform is seated on a rock and holding his rifle in one hand with its butt resting on the ground. The base of the...