Pamphlet written by Anna Holden in cooperation with the Nashville Congress of Racial Equality group, 1958. The pamphlet tells how a CORE group helped parents and children, despite the violence of segregationist mobs, to desegregate public schools...
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...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Christopher Hathaway, conducted on 20 October 2007 by StoryCorps Facilitator Cynthia Murphy at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Donald Oldham, conducted on 29 September 2007 by StoryCorps Facilitator Cynthia Murphy at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Tammy Gentuso, conducted on February 9, 2011 by Susannah Gibbons as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Tammy describes the rescue of her elderly parents in Pennington Bend during the May 2010...
Pictured: Arthur MacArthur, young son of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Jean Faircloth MacArthur standing with his parents at the stadium program at Middle Tennessee State College on the occasion of the MacArthur family honorary ceremony in 1951. The...
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 letter from Dutch immigrant, Peter J. Williamson, to his wife, Eunice, in the years following the Civil War. In 1862 Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. ...
A one-page (front and back) handwritten letter by Clarence Jackson "Jack" Davis, to his parents, Mr. Benton V. Davis and Mrs. Mildred Jackson Davis, of Nashville, Tenn. Jack Davis joined the Marine Corps Reserve to help finance his education at...
A two-page handwritten letter by James Neese to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T.L. Neese, Jr. of Nashville, Tenn. James often wrote to his parents and brother in Nashville to tell them about his experiences in the Army infantry serving in Africa and...
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...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville, Tenn., veteran James Carlew, conducted on 25 March 2004 by Larry Patterson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Carlew, who served in the Navy during World...
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 how he was disciplined...
Oral history excerpts from an oral history interview with Nashville businessman, former State Representative for the 53rd District, civic leader and Davidson County, Tennessee Clerk John H. Arriola, Jr., conducted on 05 June 2007 by James T. Havron...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville investor John S. Bransford, Sr., conducted on 9 July 1980 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Bransford reads a letter he wrote describing his...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville investor John S. Bransford, Sr., conducted on 9 July 1980 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Bransford discusses his mother's refusal to move to...
Excerpts from an interview with civil rights movement participant King M. Hollands, conducted on 28 June 2006 by Larry Patterson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Hollands was one of the first students to...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the Founders’ Day pageant at Eastland School. The caption identifies left to right “Mrs. Tom A. Bland, president of the Eastland P.T.A.; Mrs. J. H. Pate, Eastland Founders’ Day...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about Robert Cash’s birthday party. The caption states he was “host at a birthday party recently at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Cash, 1711 Woodland Street. Those sent at the...
Pictured: “Neighborhood group piles up scrap: four school children have canvassed the Twenty-eighth Avenue, South, neighborhood with the large pile above resulting. The children are shown as they helped load the nearly 1,000 pounds of salvage on...