A photograph of a collection of a portion of the original columns and capitals from the Tennessee State Capitol Building in Nashville, Tennessee. The building was designed by architect William Strickland (1788-1854) and built between 1845 and 1859,...
A photograph of coupled Ionic columns and archway of the Hermitage Hotel, 231 Sixth Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee. The building was designed by Tennessee architect J. Edwin Carpenter (1867-1932) in the Beaux Arts style and built between 1908...
A photograph of the vaulted ceiling interior of the Union Station Hotel, 1001 Broadway, Nashville, Tennessee. The Romanesque-style building was constructed 1898-1900 as the depot for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. It was designed by Richard...
A photograph of the sculpture of the east pediment and metopes of the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee. The pediment sculpture shows an artists conception of the birth of Athena, who was depicted in Greek myth as having sprung, full grown and in...
Street scene in Dreiborn, Germany, 1944. Shows battle-scarred buildings, muddy street, many communications wires, and an American jeep and an MP at an intersection. A church steeple, shrouded in mist, was occupied by a German sniper who killed an...
A photograph of the Arcade, Nashville, Tennessee. The Arcade opened in 1903, running east to west between what were then Cherry Street and Summer Street; present day Fourth Avenue North and Fifth Avenue North. It was conceived by Nashville resident...
A photograph of Reverend James Morris Lawson, Jr., at First Baptist Church, 8th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, March 1, 1960. Having served as field representative for the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Reverend Lawson was the key organizer and...
A photograph of workshop leaders and participants at the 25th Anniversary Session and meeting of Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee on August 31, 1957. Myles Horton and Don West founded Highlander Folk School in Grundy County, Tennessee,...
A photograph of student demonstrators being arrested and escorted into a paddy wagon after a nonviolent protest at the Greyhound Bus Terminal, 6th Avenue and Commerce Street, Nashville, Tennessee, March 3, 1960. Students continued demonstrations...
A photograph of student demonstrators, in front of the previously segregated Post House Restaurant located inside the Greyhound Bus Terminal, 6th Avenue and Commerce Street, Nashville, Tennessee, March 3, 1960. Led by Student Nonviolent...
A photograph of members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Guy Carawan of the Highlander Folk School at a mass meeting at Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, April 21, 1960, following the bombing of attorney Z. Alexander...
A photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Reverend Kelly Miller Smith at Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, April 21, 1960, preparing to speak to an audience of over 4000 following the bombing of the home of prominent civil rights...
A photograph of anti-segregation demonstrators during the Freedom March, 18th Avenue North and Jefferson Street, Nashville, Tennessee, March 23, 1963. Leading the march is John R. Lewis and Archie E. Allen. The Freedom March was sponsored by the...
A photograph of Reverend Joseph Metz Rollins with police officers before a demonstration, Nashville, Tennessee, May 9, 1963. Reverend Rollins served with the National Committee of Black Churchmen and the Nashville Christian Leadership Council...
A photograph of participants in the 1968 Poor People's March, Nashville, Tennessee, May 8, 1968. In March 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. announced plans for the Poor People's Campaign for the purposes of organizing and uniting the poor across...
A photograph of Stokely Carmichael at the 1967 IMPACT Symposium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, April 8, 1967. Carmichael's 1967 appearance at Vanderbilt University would be cited as "the cause of significant controversy throughout...
A photograph of Coretta Scott King, Reverend Kelly Miller Smith and Mrs. D. Conrad Gandy at First Baptist Church, Nashville, Tennessee, October 20, 1958. Mrs. King addressed the group at a Women's Day program at First Baptist Church, 8th Avenue...
A photograph of a massive crowd of silent marchers at the Court House Square, Davidson County Courthouse, James Robertson Parkway, Nashville, Tennessee, April 19, 1960. A crowd of over 3000 participants marched in silence from the campus of...
A photograph of lead defense attorneys for student demonstrators, Davidson County Courthouse, Nashville, Tennessee, March 2, 1960. Attorney Robert E. Lillard gestures in his defense of the students on trial for their part in the sit-in...
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...