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Civil Rights - Special Collection Topics
Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Local Business - Special Collections Topics
Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Local Business - Special Collections Topics
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Scope and content: Sixteen issues of The Mid-State Observer, an African-American newspaper published in Nashville, Tenn. starting in July 1978. Topics include local and state politics; high school and college sports; schools; religious news (from both Christian and Muslim points of view); music; theater; small businesses and business owners; housing; editorials; and discussion of racism, discrimination, and economic conditions. Frequent articles appear...
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Scope and content: Includes programs, brochures, essays, flyers, and other documents relating to various aspects of African-American history in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, dated from 1972 to 2009. Quantity of materials typically is one or two items for each subject. Some items are photocopies. The most abundant material documents the annual Afro-American Culture and History Conference from 1981 to 2009, and includes programs for the conference...
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Scope and content: Contains a wide variety of materials, mostly from the twentieth century, about Nashville area churches. Includes church histories, biographies of local ministers and other prominent persons in the Christian religious life of Nashville; printed sermons; church bulletins; membership lists; promotional literature; church periodicals and related literature; architectural information on historic church buildings; information about particular...
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Scope and content: The Metropolitan Weekly was an African-American newspaper published in Nashville, Tenn. beginning in September 1980. Format was tabloid sized, with photographs, news articles, opinion pieces, and advertising relevant to the African-American community, with emphasis on the geographic area of North Nashville. Although desiring to grow in to a weekly publication, as reflected in its name, the newspaper generally published twice a month...
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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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Architecture - Special Collections Topics
Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
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Abstract: Records of the Sacred Sites Survey Project of Historic Nashville, Inc., conducted between 1999 and 2003, encompassing a survey of houses of worship in Davidson County, Tenn. over fifty years old as of 2000.
Scope and content: The bulk of the collection is comprised of the church survey forms and photographs of the churches. The collection also includes administrative papers which provide information about the creation and implementation...
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Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
Local Business - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
Local Business - Special Collections Topics
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Scope and content: Interviews in various formats conducted mostly in 1977 with individuals associated with buildings and businesses located on Nashville's Second Avenue North, known in the nineteenth century as Market Street.
Mrs. Frances Eakes - One page of notes, only; no audio. Lived in the Silver Dollar Saloon in 1925-1926 when her father, Willis W. Agee ran a drugstore on the premises. Eakes recalls the flood of 1926-1927 and "shanties" where...