Excerpts from an interview with Betty Nixon on 16 June 2004 by Kathryn G. Bennett as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Nixon discusses childhood experiences that led to her awareness of segregation and...
Excerpts from an interview with Alice Smith Risby conducted on 05 April 2007 by John Egerton as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Risby, wife of Reverend Kelly Miller Smith, Sr., discusses her daughter's...
An oral history interview with Salynn McCollum, conducted on 29 June 2007 by Larry Patterson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Salynn McCollum was one of the Nashville students who participated in the...
An oral history interview with Dr. Charles Kimbrough, conducted on September 14, 2005 by Gwen Smith as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Dr. Kimbrough marked the 100th interview conducted for the Civil...
Excerpts from an interview with Nashville business and civic leader Betty Chiles Nixon conducted on 19 June 2007 by James T. Havron as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. Nixon discusses Cross...
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...
Excerpts from an interview with civil rights leader Charles Tony Moorman on 09 August 2007 by Larry Patterson as part of the Civil Rights Oral History Project. In the excerpts Moorman discusses when the Washington Junior High School basketball...
Excerpts from an interview with civil rights leader Dr. Rodney N. Powell on 29 March 2005 by Kathy Bennett as part of the Civil Rights Oral History Project. In the excerpts Rodney Powell talks about social conscience; being part of the student...
Excerpts from an interview with civil rights movement participant King M. Hollands, conducted on 28 June 2006 by Larry Patterson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Hollands was one of the first students to...
Excerpts from an interview with civil rights leaders Guy and Candie Carawan on 17 January 2003 by Kathy Bennett as part of the Civil Rights Oral History Project. In the excerpts Candie and Guy Carawan discuss Candie's parents' reaction to her...
Excerpts from an oral history interview with Mary Diane Maynard Ross, conducted on 2 Oct. 2006 by Linda Barnickel as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Ross discusses the difficulty of leaving behind her young...
Excerpts from an oral history interview with Nashvillian Annie Woodfolk Carter, conducted on 28 July 1980 by Nathaniel A. Crippens as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. In these excerpts, Carter discusses moving to...
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...
Excerpts from an interview with Matthew Kennedy conducted on 10 September 2008 by Andrea Blackman as part of the Civil Rights Oral History Project. Matthew Kennedy discussing coming to Fisk University after graduating from Julliard; his earliest...
An excerpt from an interview with Bob Horton, conducted on November 30, 1994 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Horton discusses his role in the consolidation of the city and county governments. He also...
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...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader Edward F. (Eddie) Jones, conducted on 03 November 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project: The...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader Nelson Andrews, conducted on 25 August 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project: The Turner...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville businessman David Swett, Jr., conducted on 17 July 2006 by John Egerton as part of a cooperative effort between the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville educator Mildred Owsley Buchanan., conducted on two dates in November 1980 by Paul Clements as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Buchanan, a home economics...