An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant Mary Frances Berry, conducted on 5 September 2003 by John Egerton as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Berry...
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 photograph showing some of the high school attendees at the 1950 Christmas dinner held at the Fannie Battle Day Home. The dinner was "given in honor of the tiny tots at the Fannie Battle Day Home by members of the Fannie Battle Social Workers...
A photograph of the 1950 Fannie Battle Social Workers Carol Chairman, Mrs. John Dubuisson (pictured seated at table), photographed at the annual Christmas tea with (from left) Mrs. Alvin Beaman and Mrs. R.Y. Thorpe and Mrs. James V. Blevins,...
A postcard of the Sam Davis Hotel located at 132 Seventh Avenue North and corner of Commerce Street, Nashville, Tennessee. The 12-story, 250-room hotel named for Sam Davis, the Confederate hero, opened on Friday, 23 December 1927. The structure...
A photograph of Avon N. Williams, Jr., being congratulated by his wife, Marie Bontemps, and supporters after his successful bid to become the first African American senator in Tennessee since Reconstruction. He ran for state senator from the 19th...
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 postcard of the Sam Davis Hotel, a business property named for Sam Davis, the "Boy Hero of the Confederacy." The twelve-story building was located at the corner of 132 Seventh Avenue North at the corner of Commerce Street in downtown Nashville,...
A postcard of Battle Ground Academy and Gymnasium, circa 1909. Established in 1889, the school was named for its original location on the battle ground of the Civil War Battle of Franklin. The first campus was erected at the corner of Columbia...
20; West; 19; 10.0x27.0; *Can't find the deed, but according to the Platt book, this lot is owned by Bengers, Birchett & Burgess.; Birchett, Luvenia 1833-1901; Birchett, W.V. 1908-1911; Birchett, D.A. 1822-1910; Hill, Harry Lee 1865-1918; Nevins,...
20; West; 19; 10.0x27.0; *Can't find the deed, but according to the Platt book, this lot is owned by Bengers, Birchett & Burgess.; Birchett, Luvenia 1833-1901; Birchett, W.V. 1908-1911; Birchett, D.A. 1822-1910; Hill, Harry Lee 1865-1918; Nevins,...
25; East; 7; 10.0x10.0; *Can't find the deed, but according to the Plat book this lot is owned by a T.S. Cannon.; Cannon, J.V. 1800-1849; Cannon, Mary M. 1804-1849
16; South; 23; 10.0x10.0; 224; III; 04/26/1864; (The lot was originally 10x30 but in 1873 10x20 was sold to Mr. R.P. Brown and then transferred same part of the lot to Mrs. V.C. Reeves in 1890.); Looks empty.
(Transferrred from Grooms, J. B.); 28; Northwest-1; 11; 20.0x32.0; 323; I; 08/05/1875; Corsaw, Mary A. 1825-1912; Holt, Miss Bettie 1876-1916; McNabb 1912 (infant son on W. P. & Lance); Newman, Addie M. 1879-1863; Newman, Arthur V. 1872-1958;...