An original political cartoon created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to the early 1970s. In the foreground, Chief Justice Earl Warren and another judge look at a "No Prayer Decree" and look out the...
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...
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 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 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
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...
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.