Excerpts from an interview with civil rights movement participant Robert "Bobby" Cain, Jr., and his wife, Margo Cain, conducted on 13 June 2007 by Gwen Smith. Cain, one of the "Clinton 12," was the first African-American student to graduate from...
Jesse Clifton Burt, Jr., in middle age, wearing a brown suit and green tie, with his arms crossed. His wedding band and watch are visible. Historian, author, and free-lance writer, Jesse Burt was born in 1921 in Nashville, Tennessee, to Jesse...
A photograph of a single African American standing in a long line of voters at Clinton, Tennessee's fire hall precinct. Segregationist candidates were defeated in this election. Earlier that year, on August 27, twelve African American students...
28; Northeast; 60; 10.0x20.0; 400; I; 02/18/1848; [Gilbert, Thomas and William are buried on Lot 59 in the same section.]; Gilbert, Dewitt Clinton 1829-1844; Gilbert, Nancy 1804-1839
A postcard of The Fisk Memorial Chapel on the campus of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. The chapel was built in 1892 by means of a legacy from General Clinton B. Fisk, (for whom the University is named), which, according to family wishes,...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. The first page of a two-page index to a plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G.M. Hopkins Company. This index lists the names of all streets appearing on the map with their corresponding...