Oral history excerpts from an oral history interview with Nashville businessman, former State Representative for the 53rd District, civic leader and Davidson County, Tennessee Clerk John H. Arriola, Jr., conducted on 05 June 2007 by James T. Havron...
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...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Wendell J. Gore, conducted on 24 October 2007 by StoryCorps facilitator Kate Wingate at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Nora S. Grasser, conducted on 10 October 2007 by her sister Mary Grace Schulz at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville Public...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with D.J. Murphy, conducted on 29 September 2007 by his friend and band-mate Ben Elkins at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville Public...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with the Nashville Public Library's Wishing Chair Productions staff Mary Bailey (as Mary Mary and J.J.) and Pete Carden (as Tommy Dog and Library Pete), conducted on 14 November...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville minister Dr. Frank F. Drowota, Jr., conducted on 20 November 1980 by Helen Drowota as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Drowota, a native of England and the...
A photograph of Mrs. J.H. Matthews showing off a sampling of her Victory Garden produce and canned goods. She won fourteen ribbons at the Tennessee State Fair War Exhibition and was very active in the Victory Garden Association, demonstrating to...
A slave bill of sale documenting the purchase of a "boy named Sephus aged about six years" by William Harrison, Jr., from Timothy [Terrell?] in Williamson County, Tennessee on Jan. 18, 1844. The warrant of title refers to the sum of two hundred...
A slave deed bill of sale for the acquisition of three slaves: "a woman named Betty about twenty one years of age, and her two children Louis-Randolph about four years of age, and William Henry about twelve months old." The document states that...
A photograph of New Hope Baptist Church, now called New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, located at 1303 Hawkins Street in Nashville, Tennessee. The church was founded by J.C. Harding in 1885 and rebuilt on the same location in 1973 as indicated on...
A photograph of Noah's Ark Primitive Baptist Church located at 921 Thirtieth Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. This church was rebuilt on the same land in 1967 under Elder R.J. Stevenson, Pastor, according to the cornerstone. The foundation is...
Wharton School was named for Arthur Dickson Wharton who served as principal and professor at various Nashville schools. According to Annual Reports of the Public Schools of Nashville, Tennessee, Wharton school had been occupied for one year at the...
Named after Alonzo Napier, brother of J.C. Napier, this original Napier school building, seen here from the side, opened mid way through the 1897-1898 school year. It was located at the corner of Robinson and Fairfield. Completion of the school...
Washington Junior High opened in September of 1928 for students in grades seven through nine. It was named for George E. Washington, a prominent Nashville educator and former principal of Pearl High School. J.A. Galloway was the school's first...