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- Excerpt 2 from oral history interview with Mary Frances Berry, 2003 September 05
- An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant Mary Frances Berry, conducted on 5 September 2003 by John Egerton as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Berry...
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- Photograph of school registration, Glenn Elementary School, Cleveland Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 1957 August 27
- A photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Harold D. Street enrolling their daughter, Lajuanda (second girl) and a friend at Glenn Elementary School, Nashville, Tennessee, 27 August 1957. Enrollment came under a court-approved plan, which called for...
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- Photograph of Grace McKinley walking her daughter, Linda Gail McKinley to Fehr Elementary School, Nashville, Tennessee, 1957 September 09
- 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...
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- Photograph of crowd, Fehr Elementary School, corner of Fifth Avenue and Garfield Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 1957 September 09
- 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...
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- A First Step toward school integration, 1958 June
- 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...
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- Looby raps segregated education, Nashville, Tennessee, 1950 November 02
- A photograph of Z. Alexander Looby at the city jail, Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. Looby, a local lawyer had addressed an American Veteran's Committee public meeting at Bethlehem Center on November 1, 1950. This photograph appeared in the Nashville...
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- A. Z. Kelley and the legal team for Kelley v. Board of Education of Nashville, 1955 September
- 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...
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