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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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Scope and content: Series I. Autobiography of Norvelle Dismukes, written in 1982, provides a detailed account of her life, her family, her education, and her career. Generally written in chronological order, she has a novelist's eye for detail, and provides rich emotional and physical descriptions about the people in her life and her surroundings. She writes about her family origins in Wilcox County, Alabama; her adoption by relatives in 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: A wide variety of material relating to the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, held in 1897 in Nashville, Tenn. to mark the ocassion of the 100th anniversary of statehood. Materials include guidebooks to both the city and the exhibition, essays, invitations, tickets, programs, souvenir brochures and guides, and a few artifacts. Guidebooks provide schedules of events and special days at the fair; summaries of displays, exhibits, buildings,...
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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: 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: 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 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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"In 1822, White authorities in Charleston, South Carolina, learned of plans among the city's enslaved and free Black population to lead an armed antislavery rebellion. Among the leaders was a free Black carpenter named Denmark Vesey. After a brief investigation and what some have considered a dubious trial, Vesey and thirty-five others were convicted of attempted insurrection and hanged. Although the rebellion never came to fruition, it nonetheless...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader Betty Chiles Nixon, conducted 19 June 2007 by James T. Havron as part of the Library Interviews series of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. During the one hour interview, Nixon discusses such topics as her childhood; her father, John Chiles, and his Cross Keys Restaurant; the decline of business in downtown Nashville;...
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Scope and content: A wide variety of materials, many of them mass-produced and featuring illustrations, mostly in the nature of brochures, walking tours, driving tours, essays, historical sketches, and tourism materials, about Middle Tennessee counties. Items often emphasize major towns, especially county seats, within particular counties.
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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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Community Life - Special Collections Topics
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Scope and content: A small quantity of materials 1958-1991 created by Nashvillian Dr. Irene S.P. Francis including: biographical sketches of Dr. Francis, Adolpho Birch, Mary Carlotta Hughes, and Lillie Mae Howard; a 1958 constitution of the Haynes Heights Community Civic Organization and one letter to the Council of Community Agencies in 1965 with recommendations for a community center; various opinion pieces and letters written 1971-1991 by Francis...
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Education - Special Collections Topics
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Education - Special Collections Topics
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Scope and content: A small quantity of materials concerning school integration in Nashville, Tenn., focusing on the leadership of principal Margaret Cate at Hattie Cotton Elementary School in the wake of the bombing that took place there early on Sept. 10, 1957. A significant portion of the collection also focuses on the local and national attention that the event received in the days and months following the bombing.
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville businessman, former State Representative for the 53rd District, civic leader, and Davidson County, Tennessee Clerk John H. Arriola, Jr., conducted 5 June 2007 by James T. Havron as part of the Library Interviews series of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. During the 1 hour interview, Arriola discusses such topics as his childhood and education...
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Scope and content: The collection consists of records and ephemera from 1973-2007 (bulk 1994-2006) created by Gaiete de Coeur Art and Study Club members. Club yearbooks, printed every two years, are found for every year from 1975-2007 except 1999-2001. The years 1979-1981 and 1983-1985 are represented with a copy or draft. Minutes from monthly meetings held during 1975-2007 include meeting-related items such as programs, meditations, financial...
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Civil Rights - Special Collection Topics
Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Nashville Banner - Special Collections Topics
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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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Abstract: Civil Rights Oral History Project, is an ongoing effort documenting more than 100 oral history interviews with local and nationally distinguished participants on topics such as the 1960 Nashville student lunch counter sit-in movement, the formation of civil rights organizations such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Highlander...
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Scope and content: Diary used as autograph book. Inscription in front indicates that Gladys Charlestine Matlock of Knoxville was given the diary by Peg Kessner at Christmas 1929. The book is signed by classmates of Matlock at Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State College in Nashville, Tenn. during the spring of 1933. Inscriptions include quotes, aphorisms, rhymes, humorous ditties and poems, and an occasional drawing or sketch. Some students...