An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant Mary Frances Berry, conducted on 5 September 2003 by John Egerton as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Berry...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville barbershop owner James H. Crowder, conducted on 28 August 1986 by Reavis Mitchell as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Crowder discusses living on Twelfth...
A photograph of Greater Revelations Baptist Church, formerly Church of the Living God. This church is located at 1029 Twelfth Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. The foundation is concrete. The exterior walls are light colored brick in the...
A photograph of Kayne Avenue Missionary Baptist Church located at 1025 Twelfth Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. The congregation was founded in 1886 and has been under various names including College Street Baptist Church and Pennington...
A photograph of Lawrence Avenue Church of Christ located at 904 Lawrence Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The church building was constructed in approximately 1912 as the Lawrence Avenue Christian Church, and has seen many different congregations...
A photograph of Progressive Missionary Baptist Church located at 1419 Twelfth Avenue South. The congregation was founded in 1936 while the building construction was finished in 1941. The church has been listed as Progressive Missionary Baptist...
Opened in January of 1940, Carter-Lawrence Elementary was a combination of two previously separate schools. Carter Elementary, containing grades one through six, was located just north of the present site on 12th Avenue South. Lawrence Elementary,...
A photograph of the former Belmont Baptist Church, now Hope Center located at 2415 Twelfth Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. This church was erected in 1906 on the corner of 12th Avenue South and Beechwood Avenue. Its address was originally...
A photograph of the congregation from Kayne Avenue Baptist Church standing outside. This African American church was located on Twelfth Avenue South, across from the Carter-Lawrence School. When the building burned down it was replaced by a new...
An exterior view showing the Negro Branch of the Carnegie Library, in Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1916. This branch library opened at the southeast corner of Twelfth Avenue North and Hynes Street on February 10, 1916. It was among the four...
A page from a mounted and bound volume of twenty-five pen-and-ink wash drawings, and two pen-and-ink maps of Nashville created by William A. Eichbaum during the 1850s. Eichbaum was a Nashville bookseller and resident for fifty years. This page...
A page from a mounted and bound volume of twenty-five pen-and-ink wash drawings, and two pen-and-ink maps of Nashville created by William A. Eichbaum during the 1850s. Eichbaum was a Nashville bookseller and resident for fifty years. This drawing...
A photograph of Belmont Baptist Church located on the corner of 12th Avenue South and Beechwood Avenue. Two men stand outside of the entrance. The church was built in 1906 as Belmont Baptist Church. In 1921 the church was sold and became Waverly...
A photograph of Abyssinia Missionary Baptist Church. Formerly Twelfth Avenue Church of Christ, Abyssinia Missionary Baptist sits at 1810 Twelfth Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. The current Baptist congregation gained the church in 1971. ...
A photograph of Dixon-Memorial United Methodist Church located at 1111 Buchanan Street at Twelfth Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. According to the church's cornerstone, the structure was erected in 1938. The congregation was formed in 1889. The...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. The first page of a two-page index to a plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G.M. Hopkins Company. This index lists the names of all streets appearing on the map with their corresponding...