A photograph of Christ the King Catholic Church, located at 3001 Belmont Boulevard in Nashville, Tennessee. The church's first mass was held in 1937 inside of a two-story brick house that was situated on the property bought for the church by the...
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 Clark Memorial Methodist Church, Nashville's oldest African American Church. Located now at 1015 Fourteenth Avenue North, Clark Memorial has had several name and location changes throughout the years. The congregation came into...
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 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,...
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
(transferred to him from Young, Dr. J. L.); 3; ---; 7; 10.0x20.0; 115; III; 11/06/1858; 52; III; 11/26/1854; Couch, John A. 1813-1870; Couch, M. H. 1811-1870; Malone, Alfred 1856-1858; Malone, Lee 1862-1864
(Transferred from Jas. M. Murrell's Lot.); 23; ---; 20; 10.0x25.0; 347; II; 05/14/1881; Moore, Ella Sheppard 1851-1914; Moore, Dr. George S 1883-1943; Moore, George C. 1907-1927; Moore, George W. 1854-1920
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...
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...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about Reverend W. S. Marshall, “pastor of the West Nashville Cumberland Presbyterian Church takes his hat off to his friends and his church members who, on Christmas Day, presented him with a new...
(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