A postcard of the War Memorial Building on Memorial Plaza stretching between Union Street and Charlotte Avenue, and from Sixth to Seventh Avenues. This building was built by the state, county and city in 1925 to honor the Tennesseans who served in...
A postcard of the War Memorial Building on Memorial Plaza stretching between Union Street and Charlotte Avenue, and from Sixth to Seventh Avenues. This building was built by the state, county and city in 1925 to honor the Tennesseans who served in...
A photograph of leaders from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leaving the Estes Kefauver Federal Building and United States Courthouse in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, on May 23, 1967. They were attending a trial of a suit...
A photograph of Ray of Hope Community Church, formerly Meridian Street Methodist Church, located at 901 Meridian Street in Nashville, Tennessee. The rear part of the building was completed in 1925, while the front part, now the current sanctuary,...
The Little Theatre Guild, under the direction of Ramon Savich, presented the play "Meet The Wife" by Lynn Starling on May 23-26, 1928, at the Hillsboro Theatre, 2101 Belcourt Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee. It was the last offering by the company for...
Dewey Grantham, with dark hair and wearing a brown suit and black tie. He is leaning and seems as if in conversation. Born in 1921 in Georgia, Dewey W. Grantham was a Vanderbilt University professor and scholar of twentieth-century southern...
Ben West leaning against a chair with his hands on its back. He is wearing a black jacket, blue bow tie, and a white shirt. Born in 1911, Ben West attended Cumberland Law School and Vanderbilt University. West served as Mayor of Nashville from...
A photograph of the Sam Davis Hotel being imploded on 16 February 1985. It was located at 132 Seventh Avenue North and corner of Commerce Street, Nashville, Tennessee. In about 15 seconds the explosives sent the 56-year-old hotel down into its...
A photograph of student demonstrators being arrested and escorted into a paddy wagon after a nonviolent protest at the Greyhound Bus Terminal, 6th Avenue and Commerce Street, Nashville, Tennessee, March 3, 1960. Students continued demonstrations...
A photograph of Stokely Carmichael at the 1967 IMPACT Symposium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, April 8, 1967. Carmichael's 1967 appearance at Vanderbilt University would be cited as "the cause of significant controversy throughout...
A photograph of Reverend Joseph Metz Rollins with police officers before a demonstration, Nashville, Tennessee, May 9, 1963. Reverend Rollins served with the National Committee of Black Churchmen and the Nashville Christian Leadership Council...
A photograph of participants in the 1968 Poor People's March, Nashville, Tennessee, May 8, 1968. In March 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. announced plans for the Poor People's Campaign for the purposes of organizing and uniting the poor across...
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...
A photograph of student demonstrators, in front of the previously segregated Post House Restaurant located inside the Greyhound Bus Terminal, 6th Avenue and Commerce Street, Nashville, Tennessee, March 3, 1960. Led by Student Nonviolent...
Photograph of unidentified African-American military band during World War II, probably taken at or near Karachi Air Base in India (now in Pakistan). Photograph probably taken by Morris Levine. Morris Levine was born on Dec. 8, 1917 in Nashville,...
A photograph of an orange and black poster saying "Don't be a Heel, mind your traffic manners", being put up on a utility pole by Traffic Inspector Hubert O. Kemp (right foreground) and (left to right) Traffic Lt. Braxton Duke, Randolph Tucker, a...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Catherine Berry Pilcher Avery, conducted on the 09 February 1981 and the 13 February 1981 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Avery, 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...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Murray Alexander Tatum, conducted on 29 September 2007 by his son Bryant Tatum and Larry and Patterson at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of...
A portrait of an unidentified Meharry Medical College graduate, circa 1900. The school was founded in 1876 as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee College and the first medical school in the South for African Americans. It was chartered...