Nashville

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  2/9/2023
  

  An Unlikely Coalition Trying to Save a Nashville Black Landmark

  A Nashville Elks lodge building was the 1960s home of a music club where superstars of Black music—and the yet-to-be famous Jimi Hendrix—played during the segregation era. Like many such landmarks, decades of highway building broke up the surrounding community and made the building endangered today. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  2/7/2023
  

  Nashville's Historic Woolworth Building is in Trouble

  America faces a choice between preserving the sites of its civil rights history within the evolving fabric of cities and towns, or erecting more plaques explaining what happened in the buildings that used to be there.

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• SOURCE: Oxford American
  12/13/2022
  

  Exiting/In

  by Francesca T. Royster

  A family and community history in Black Nashville puts the rise of "Music Row" in the context of urban renewal projects that destroyed African American communities and institutions, and the unacknowledged Black presence in country music. 

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• SOURCE: Nashville Scene
  10/10/2022
  

  What Freedom Meant to Black People in Nashville During the Civil War

  Incoming AHA President Thavolia Glymph discussed how the actions of Black refugees who moved behind Union lines at Fort Negley and other locations changed the meaning of the war and ensured that it would ultimately abolish slavery. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/28/2021
  

  Bob Moore, Key Pillar of the "Nashville Sound", dies at 88`

  "Over 40 years Mr. Moore elevated the bass in country music from a subordinate timekeeper to an instrument capable of considerable tonal and emotional reach."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  8/21/2021
  

  Tom T. Hall, Writer of Numerous Nashville Hits, Dies at 85

  "In all my writing, I've never made judgments," he said in 1986. "I think that's my secret. I'm a witness. I just watch everything and don't decide if it's good or bad."

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• SOURCE: Nashville Scene
  12/10/2020
  

  New Oral History Project Spotlights Roles of Nashville’s Women Musicians

  Musician and historian Tiffany Minton's new oral history project tackles the stereotype of the Nashville session musician – the backbone of the city's recording industry – as a white guy. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/24/2020
  

  When I was 12, John Lewis Talked my Mom into Letting Me March with Him

  Because of Lewis, I got my first chance to protest my city’s and region’s racist policies and practices — from where we could eat, work, live, go to school, swim, party, play sports and even use the taxpayer-funded public restrooms.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-14-18
  

  Nashville Mayor Proposes City Park to Atone for Its Slave History

  As other cities tear down Confederate monuments, the Tennessee capital wants to preserve land for a city park near Fort Negley, which thousands of former slaves built.

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• 6-14-17
  

  Developers in Nashville Are Encroaching on a Civil War Fort Unlike Any Other

  by Ed Hooper

  It was built by thousands of newly-freed slaves, hundreds of whom died in the process.

• SOURCE: Vanderbilt News
  7-25-13
  

  Jon Meacham in residence at Vanderbilt this fall

  Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham will be a dynamic presence at Vanderbilt University during the fall 2013 semester, teaching a political science course and leading two events open to the general public.“I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to be a part of the vibrant Vanderbilt world,” said Meacham. “The university seems to be in a kind of golden age–at once culturally exciting and intellectually exacting.”Meacham, executive editor and executive vice president at Random House, was awarded the Pulitzer for American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. His most recent book, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, was a No. 1 New York Times bestseller and made many critics’ “best of the year” lists. Meacham is a contributing editor to Time and a former editor of Newsweek. A fellow of the Society of American Historians, he is a trustee of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, chairs the National Advisory Board of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University, and is a scholar-trustee of the New-York Historical Society....