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...
A photograph of A. Z. Kelley and some of the legal team from Kelley v. Board of Education of Nashville in September 1955. Following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, the Supreme Court issued Brown II, ordering that schools to desegregate...
Harris-Davis and Company, J. L. Turner and Son, J. S. Reeves and Company, and D. F. Siler Company were among the buildings that once delineated the outer perimeter of the public square in Nashville. The square, with the county courthouse, city hall...