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 the reminiscences of Roy C. Avery, recorded in June 1971 by Catherine Berry Pilcher Avery and Rev. William Dixon Gray. The recording is part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Avery recalls the boredom and...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant Rev. William Lewis Barnes, conducted on 19 December 2002 by Ed Hamlett as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Barnes...
A photograph of Mt. Nebo Baptist Church located at 2416 Clifton Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. This congregation was founded in 1871 by Rev. Pharoah Benson, a former slave. The first church was built right across the street from the present day...
Church of the Advent, Episcopal, was organized in 1857 by 58 communicants of Christ Episcopal Church and its rector the Rev. Charles Tomes after a disagreement over pew rentals. Rev. Tomes died soon after the group formed, and the Rev. Charles T....
A photograph of the 1946 faculty of Fisk University, standing in front of Fisk University Memorial Chapel. Pictured left to right are John Wesley Work III, Harold Smith, Rev. William J. Faulkner, Theodore Yoder, Rev. Lyman Cady, Mayme U. Foster,...
(Transferred from Rev. R. C. Howell); 8; ---; 5; 10.0x20.0; 343; I; 06/10/1878; Porter, Alexander; Porter, M. A. 1873-1877; Porter, S. A. 1825-1905; Porter, S. L. 1847-1934; Porter, Tolbert C. 1869-1941
11; West; 33; 10.0x40.0; 265; I; 04/22/1844; Dickson, Michael 1779-1859; Wharton, Araminta Jane 1832-1861; Wharton, Ellen J. 1843-44; Wharton, Priscilla R. 1810-1847
19; West; 37; 20.0x28.0; 266; I; 04/23/1844; Browne, Julia M.H. 1820-1840; Hallum, Elizabeth 1796-1839; Morgan, Thomas N. 1810-1844; Patten, Mary A.; Patten, Seline; Washington, Sarah A. 1784-1846; Wheat, Reginald H.
(See Malone, Rev. Jos--.transferred to him Nov. 6, 1858.); 3; 7; 10.0x20.0; 52; III; 11/26/1854; 115; III; 11/06/1858; Couch, John A. 1813-1870; Couch, M.H. 1811-1870; Malone, Alfred 1856-1858; Malone, Lee 1862-1864
28; Northeast; 1; 20.0x33.5; 298; I; 10/31/1844; Bradford, Elizabeth Blackwell 1767-1837; Bradford, Capt. John 1762-1827; Hume, Alfred; Hume, Alfred 1808-1853; Hume, Edward B. 1871-1775 (Typo?); Hume, Louise H. 1811-1861; Hume, Mary E. 1843-1853;...
28; Northeast; 45; 10.0x47.0; *Can't find this deed, but according to the Plat book this lot is owned by a William Hume.; Hume, Rev. Jesse W. 1822-1854; Hume, Joseph (under 2 yrs.); Hume, Rebecca (under 2 yrs.); Hume, Rachel Jackson 1827-1910;...
2; ---; 26; 26x10x28x1; 70; II; 02/04/1850; 72; I; Size of Lot: 26x10x28x12; Goodwin (infant); Goodwin, N. C. 1815-1905; Goodwin, Richard B. 1800-1877; Goodwin, S. H 1885-1886