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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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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville businessman and civic leader Kenneth L. Roberts, conducted 27 July 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of The Turner Interviews series of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. During the 1 hour and 42 second interview, Roberts discusses such topics as his family and education; Nashville during the 1950s when he first came to town to attend law school at Vanderbilt;...
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Scope and content: 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. During the 1 hour and 11 minute interview, Berry discusses such topics as her childhood and education, including her experiences in a Nashville orphanage called Buva College; Nashville neighborhoods and businesses; segregation...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant William Lewis Barnes, conducted on 19 December 2002 by Ed Hamlett as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. During the 1 hour and 30 minute interview, Barnes discusses such topics as experiencing segregation while growing up in Nashville; attending McKendree Methodist Church; attending Vanderbilt University and Yale Divinity...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant DeLois Jackson Wilkinson, conducted on 31 October 2002 by Kathy G. Bennett as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. During the 1 hour and 16 minute interview, Wilkinson discusses such topics as her family, education, and growing up in Helena, Arkansas; Rev. Kelly Miller Smith and First Baptist Capitol Hill; her involvement...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville businessman and civic leader Edward F. (Eddie) Jones, conducted 3 Nov. 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of The Turner Interviews series of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. During the 1 hour interview, Jones discusses such topics as growing up in East Nashville during the Great Depression; how he became a journalist and started working for the Nashville...
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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: Oral history interview with Nashville businessman and civic leader Nelson Andrews, conducted 25 Aug. 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of The Turner Interviews series of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. During the 1 hour and 46 minute interview, Andrews discusses such topics as Nashville during the 1940s when he first came to town as a child; leadership; attending Vanderbilt; the advantages...
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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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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: Oral history interview with Nashville businessman and civic leader David Kirpatrick (Pat) Wilson, conducted 13 Sept. 2006 by Cabot Pyle and Kenneth L. Roberts as part of The Turner Interviews series of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. During the 1 hour and 14 minute interview, Wilson discusses such topics as his childhood and education; attending Wallace University School; serving...
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Civil Rights - Special Collection Topics
Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Nashville Banner - Special Collections Topics
Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Nashville Banner - Special Collections Topics
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Scope and content:The Jack Gunter Civil Rights Photographs feature 87 original black and white photographs taken by Nashville Banner newspaper photographer Jack Gunter from 1957 to 1968. The photographs are arranged chronologically. Undated photographs follow at the end. The bulk of the collection is from 1963 and depicts civil rights demonstrations in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Also included in the collection are single photographs of visiting...
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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...