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Scope and content: Video documentaries produced from 2006-2013 by students at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, Tenn. under the guidance of instructor Cal Fuller. Most films are approximately 10-15 min. and include photographs, film footage, songs, and newspaper coverage from the time period of the subject matter. Most documentaries concern either the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s-1960s or the Vietnam War era of the 1960s, and most focus...
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Abstract: Comprised of original newsreel, video and audio tapes, recordings of freedom and protest songs along with recorded sermons and speeches. These materials were donated or purchased through the Robin and Bill King Foundation and are part of the Civil Rights Collection of the Nashville Public Library Special Collections Division. Individual recordings are cataloged separately.
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Abstract: Consisting of rare and unique items that give historical sketches of race relations in the south, civil rights, school integration, segregation, race riots, economic discrepancy among southern African Americans and civil rights legislation. Materials in the collection were donated or purchased through the Robin and Bill King Foundation and are part of the Civil Rights Collection of the Nashville Public Library Special Collections Division....
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Scope and content: The documentary collection consists of primary and secondary sources about the African American Civil Rights Movement, with information about key events, participants, and reform movements aimed at abolishing public and private acts of racial discrimination against African Americans. The collection documents Nashville's role, including information about the Nashville student sit-in movement and the students from Fisk and Tennessee...
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Scope and content: An oral history interview with Nashville minister Dr. Frank F. Drowota, Jr., conducted on 20 November 1980 by his granddaughter Helen Drowota as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Drowota discusses such topics as immigrating to America from Great Britain as a teenager; experiences as a child in England that influenced him throughout his life, including his first experiences with death (upon viewing...
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Abstract: A wide variety of materials, mostly from 1932-1997, documenting individuals, and used by Nashville Banner reporters for reference in the course of their daily work. Items were originally housed in the Banner Clippings Files and were removed for preservation purposes by Nashville Public Library staff to form this collection.
Scope and content: The Nashville Banner Reporter Reference Files, Biography Series has information about notable people...
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Scope and content: Typescripts of speeches and a small quantity of miscellaneous documents, audio recordings, and photographs, ranging in dates from 1950 to 1975, regarding Beverly Briley's public career as Davidson County Judge (1950-1963) and first mayor (1963-1975) of Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee. These materials show an effort to explain and promote consolidated government to local citizens and officials. The items were...