A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), showing the patriotic group as “the small but most colorful part of Hume-Fogg’s R. O. T. C., as it lined up with lifted chins and straightened shoulders on the steps of the school on Broad...
Excerpts from an interview with civil rights leader Charles Tony Moorman on 09 August 2007 by Larry Patterson as part of the Civil Rights Oral History Project. In the excerpts Moorman discusses when the Washington Junior High School basketball...
Washington Junior High opened in September of 1928 for students in grades seven through nine. It was named for George E. Washington, a prominent Nashville educator and former principal of Pearl High School. J.A. Galloway was the school's first...
Cavert School opened in September of 1928 for students in grades one through nine. The school was named for Dr. A.J. Cavert who served as principal at Howard, Fogg, Hume, Fall and Warner schools among others. Cavert became a junior high in 1936...
A photograph of a group of junior choir members at Shelby Avenue Baptist Church, circa 12 December 1951, seen practicing for singing carols on Christmas Eve for benefit of the Fannie Battle Day Home. Their designated area was the East Nashville...
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...
A copy photograph of Ward's Seminary for Young Ladies, a prestigious school for girls founded in 1865 by Dr. William E. Ward, a Presbyterian Minister and his wife, Eliza Hudson Ward. The school was located at 15 South Spruce Street (Eighth Avenue)...
A copy photograph of an 1890's gymnastics class of young female students at Ward's Seminary for Young Ladies in Nashville, Tennessee. The photograph shows Mary Louise and Sadie Warner (later Mrs. William Mallison and Mrs. George Frazier) on the gym...
A postcard of Ward's Seminary for Young Ladies, a prestigious school for girls founded in 1865 by Dr. William E. Ward, a Presbyterian Minister and his wife, Eliza Hudson Ward. The school was located at 15 South Spruce Street (Eighth Avenue) in...
A photograph of a portion of the children who attended the Nashville Children's Theatre Carnival. This excerpt ran with the Nashville Banner newspaper story on May 14, 1941 about the event: "The parking space at the side of the Community Playhouse...
A photograph of the Cavert School, located at 2500 Fairfax Avenue in Nashville, circa 1996. Cavert School opened as an elementary school circa 1928. The structure is designed in the classical style and with Eakin School was one of Nashville's early...
A photograph of Mrs. Wilma Folwell, librarian, and the student library assistants on the steps of Bailey School in 1954. Bailey School, built in 1929, is located in the Eastwood neighborhood of East Nashville. The student library assistants were...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the Junior Chamber of Commerce. The caption reads: “Nashville is not going to tolerate unclean streets, alleys, backyards, etc., this summer, if the Junior Chamber of Commerce has anything...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a new sorority. The caption reads: “Several attractive members of the young school set who recently organized a new junior sorority, Kappa Alpha Phi, are, left to right: Jean Moss, Virginia...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the guests of Miss Martha Dobson. The caption reads: “Popular visitors in Nashville for the festivities that marked the opening week of the New Year were Miss Virginia Moseley of Bowling...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a tennis match. The caption reads: “Ken Young, left, and Richard Shillinglaw talk things over before their finals match Saturday in the City Junior tennis meet at M. B. A. Shillinglaw won...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940): “An attractive annual affair is the horse show sponsored by the Junior Riding Club, that will be held Friday and Saturday nights at the Tennessee State Fair Grounds, with a special children’s...
Pictured: Students of East Nashville Junior High School, with their teacher, at their scrap collection, circa 1942. During World War II Americans were active with scrap drives to help the war effort. Local communities were salvaging raw materials...