Excerpts from an interview with civil rights leaders Guy and Candie Carawan on 17 January 2003 by Kathy Bennett as part of the Civil Rights Oral History Project. In the excerpts Candie and Guy Carawan discuss Candie's parents' reaction to her...
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 Nashville Banner news clipping article by staff writer Doug Looney covering an address presented at Fisk University by civil rights activist George Ware, of Atlanta, who spoke to students in anthropology professor P.C. Onwuachi's class on April...
A photograph of Z. Alexander Looby at the city jail, Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. Looby, a local lawyer had addressed an American Veteran's Committee public meeting at Bethlehem Center on November 1, 1950. This photograph appeared in the Nashville...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Michael Sullivan, conducted on August 27, 2011 by Annette Pilcher as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Michael describes rescues performed with the Office of Emergency Management in South...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Michael Sullivan, conducted on August 27, 2011 by Annette Pilcher as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Michael talks about his experience performing rescues during the May 2010 flood.
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Excerpt from an oral history interview with John and Nancy O’Leary, conducted on October 31, 2011 by Susannah Gibbons as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. John and Nancy O’Leary’s Franklin home caught fire during the flood and...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Laurel Creech, conducted on February 9, 2011 by Andrea Blackman as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Laurel Creech, the city of Nashville’s Chief Service Officer, discusses Hands on...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Mayor Karl Dean, conducted on January 20, 2011 by Andrea Blackman as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Topics discussed include tourism, recovery, CMA, downtown businesses, Gaylord,...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Kevin Penney, Office of Emergency Management Deputy Director, conducted on February 03, 2011 by Andrea Blackman as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Kevin Penney discusses emergency response...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Monette Rebecca conducted on July 08, 2011 by Susannah Gibbons as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Monette Rebecca, Executive Director of the Richland Creek Watershed Alliance, discusses...
A captioned photo, from the Nashville Times (1940), about the Nashville Iris Association’s president Jesse E. Wills, “whose garden at his home on Belle Meade Boulevard always attracts a large number of visitors during Iris Week. Pictured in the...
Liberace, a famous American pianist and vocalist, posing with Nashville Mayor Ben West and others, at the Belle Meade Country Club in 1953. A famous and flamboyant entertainer (born as Wladziu Valentino Liberace), he was the highest-paid...
The Easter Egg Hunt and music at the Colemere Country Club on April 12th, 1952 with music entertainment by James Cecil Dickens, (better known as Little Jimmy Dickens) and a band of musicians. Mayor Ben West is at the event with a large crowd of...
Liberace, a famous American pianist and vocalist, posing with civic leader, banker, and politician Gayle Lewis Gupton (center) and an unidentified man, in Lebanon, Tennessee. Liberace, a famous and flamboyant entertainer (born Wladziu Valentino...
Andrew Benedict with grandchild and parents (Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Bell “Buddy” Benedict III) in Mayor Ben West’s office on November 18th, 1962. Andrew Bell Benedict, Jr. was a distinguished leader of First American National Bank who held...
Joe E. Torrence (pictured on the right) with an unidentified man at an August 1974 United Way event. It was in 1954 when Nashville business leaders established the United Givers Fund (UGF), replacing the Community Chest, soliciting funds within...
Nashville Mayor Ben West presented civic leader Manuel Eskind with an official proclamation on September 25th, 1961, for his “outstanding service in civic affairs of this community.” Eskind was a successful businessman and a philanthropist. ...
Pictured: “Trucks harvest scrap at Williamson Schools: when salvage leaders and volunteer truck operators in Williamson County toured schools yesterday they found a rich harvest of scrap gathered by schools competing in the Banner salvage...
A photograph of Reverend James Morris Lawson, Jr., at First Baptist Church, 8th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, March 1, 1960. Having served as field representative for the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Reverend Lawson was the key organizer and...