Dr. Buchanan became the pastor of the historic Fifteenth Avenue Baptist church in 1994. In 2001 the church was recognized by a national research team as one of only 300 churches, from among 100,000 Protestant and Catholic churches in the nation, as . . . — — Map (db m209164) HM
Rev. Smith became pastor of First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill in 1951, a post he would retain until his death in 1984. He was president of the Nashville NAACP in 1956 and founded the Nashville Christian Leadership Council in 1958. He also helped to . . . — — Map (db m209161) HM
After a successful college career at Tennessee State University, Dent was chosen in the 8th round of the 1983 NFL draft by the Chicago Bears. Dent played 10 seasons with the Bears and was named MVP of Super Bowl XX. He retired after fifteen seasons . . . — — Map (db m209056) HM
In 1896, Boyd moved to Nashville to establish the National Baptist Publishing Board with the goal of providing black Baptists with religious printings, primarily periodicals and Sunday School materials. By 1906 it was the largest African American . . . — — Map (db m209163) HM
Ronald Lawson was a forward for the 1958 Pearl High School basketball team. The '58 team captured the first of three consecutive national NAIA championships. Lawson is a member of the TSAA Hall of Fame and the Metro Nashville Public Schools Hall of . . . — — Map (db m209059) HM
Sharon Hurt is a graduate of Tennessee State University and served as the Director of Admissions and Records for 16 years at Meharry Medical College. She currently holds the position of Executive Director for the non-profit organization, J.U.M.P. . . . — — Map (db m208994) HM
Mr. Jarrett is a legendary songwriter, producer and record label owner who helped make Nashville a soul music hub to rival Memphis, Chicago and Detroit in the 1950's and 1960's. In 1951 he became a dee-jay for Nashville's WSOK, one of the country's . . . — — Map (db m209149) HM
The Tennessee State University mens basketball program has a rich history of producing elite players. The program has developed over 17 players that have gone on to professional careers in the NBA. Three notable players, each of whom had careers . . . — — Map (db m210302) HM
The Tennessee State University mens football program has a rich history of producing elite athletes. The program has developed over 100 players that have played or been drafted into the NFL. These players include #1 overall draft picks, pro-bowl . . . — — Map (db m209054) HM
The Tennessee State University Womens Track team, known as the Tigerbelles, has a rich history of athletic accomplishments. The Tigerbelles have produced 40 Olympians and won 34 national championships. Of the 40 Olympians, 28 of them have master's . . . — — Map (db m209122) HM
Between 2005-2012 the consultant team conducted extensive research on the culture and history of Jefferson Street. information and images were gathered through the cooperation of a number of individuals, organizations, agencies, and institutions. . . . — — Map (db m208998) HM
The Fairfield Four is a gospel group that has existed for over 80 years. They started as a trio in Nashville's Fairfield Baptist Church in 1921. They were designated as National Heritage Fellows in 1989 by the National Endowment for the Arts. In . . . — — Map (db m209156) HM
Ann, Regina, Deborah and Alfreda make up Nashville's Mccrary Sisters. They are the daughters of Reverend Sam McCrary, a member of the Legendary a cappella gospel group the Fairfield Four. The sisters began their careers as children singing in their . . . — — Map (db m209152) HM
The Aristocrats were formed in the fall of 1946. The 100-piece marching band took to the field at Tennessee State University and a tradition of excellence was born. The marching band has developed into a premier university band known for it's . . . — — Map (db m209158) HM
Established in April 1919, the Reserve Officers' Corps at Tennessee State University (then Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State Normal School) was one of the first ROTC units at an African-American college. Under First Lieutenant Grant . . . — — Map (db m147826) HM
W.E.B. DuBois graduated from Fisk University in 1898. He continued his education at Harvard University, where he became the school's first African American to receive a Ph.D. in History. Shortly thereafter, DuBois established himself as the first . . . — — Map (db m209088) HM
Wilma Rudolph achieved Olympic greatness and worldwide acclaim as a Tennessee State University Tigerbelle, where she received her degree in elementary education. She won three gold medals at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, becoming the first . . . — — Map (db m209058) HM
In December 1951, WSOK debuted on Nashville radio as one of the nation's first full-time all-black stations. The station featured a staff of African-American announcers and played a format of Rhythm and Blues and Gospel Music. Black-oriented . . . — — Map (db m208983) HM
Dr Lobby came to Nashville in 1926, where he began a notable
career in education, in the law, and in citizenship.
He taught at Fisk University and
Tennessee A&I (TSU) and later helped to found
The Kent College of Law, Nashville's first law . . . — — Map (db m209139) HM
Ernest Rip Patton
1940-2021
Ernest Rip Patton attended Tenn. Agricultural & Industrial State University where he joined the Nashville Student Movement, attended meetings at local churches - including his own, Gordon United Memorial Methodist . . . — — Map (db m229870) HM
From the mid 1800s, when it was just a footpath between Hadley Plantation and the Cumberland River, to present day, Jefferson Street has been the heart and soul of Nashville's African American community. Heritgae Plaza and the Heritage Walk . . . — — Map (db m214914) HM
From the 1940s to the early 1960s. Jefferson Street was one of America's best-known districts of jazz, blues, and rhythm and blues. Famous African-American musicians played repeatedly in the many clubs. Little Richard, Jimi Hendrix. Ray Charles. . . . — — Map (db m147915) HM
In 1869, African American pioneers in this area saw the need to build a church in the city's Northwest corridor. In 1871,the Rev. Nelson Merry, one of Nashville's first ordained African American ministers and pastor of the First Colored Baptist . . . — — Map (db m151601) HM
Named for George E. Washington, former principal of Pearl High School, this grade 7-9 school opened in 1928. Principals included J. A. Galloway, Braxton Murrell and Isaiah Suggs. Students took classes in English, history, Latin, science, math, . . . — — Map (db m234916) HM
Built in 1925, Griggs Hall is the original building on the American Baptist Theological Seminary campus, now American Baptist College. It was named for father and son, Drs. Allen R. and Sutton E. Griggs. In 1901, the younger Griggs founded and . . . — — Map (db m3305) HM
Riverside Sanitarium and Hospital. Opened in 1927, Riverside Sanitarium and Hospital provided African-Americans in Nashville with modern healthcare and drew patients & medical professionals from across the country. The mid-century modern Pagoda . . . — — Map (db m147764) HM
Dr. James Hoggatt, owner of the 1,500-acre Clover Bottom Farm, also owned sixty slaves here. One of them was John McCline, who lived here with his three brothers and his grandmother. McCline cared for the farm's horses and cattle among other tasks. . . . — — Map (db m147621) HM
School Desegregation in Nashville "Nashville Plan" Schools
In Brown v. Topeka (1954) and Brown II (1955)
the U.S. Supreme Court ordered public schools
nationwide to end racial segregation "with all
deliberate speed.” Nashville . . . — — Map (db m169073) HM
The deadliest train wreck in US history occurred on July 9, 1918, when two crowded trains collided head-on at Dutchman’s Curve. The impact caused passenger cars to derail into surrounding cornfields, and fires broke out throughout the wreckage. Over . . . — — Map (db m52596) HM
The area of North Nashville known as "Germantown" was first settled in the late 1700s by the McGavock family. During the first half of the 19th century, the McGavocks began selling parcels of their property, many of which were bought by German . . . — — Map (db m207840) HM
Music is the backbone of Jefferson Street, and during the 1940's, 50's and 60's it became a thriving mecca for the R&B scene. Everything from speakeasies to grand nightclubs, supper clubs, and dancehall were interspersed with elegant cafes, ice . . . — — Map (db m207838) HM
The ministry of Jefferson Street's religious leaders has always been demonstrated the integral relation between the church and the community at large and continues to do so today in the 1960's, local religious leaders used their influence to advance . . . — — Map (db m207828) HM
Jones School
Named for long-time North Nashville principal
R. W. Jones (1849-1933), Jones School opened
in 1936 to replace the old Buena Vista School.
Four African American first graders desegregated the school on Sept. 9, 1957. A crowd . . . — — Map (db m193466) HM
In memory
of the 20,133 who served as
United States Colored Troops
in the Union Army
Dedicated 2003
Sculptor: Roy W. Butler • Model: William C. Radcliffe
Presented by: The African American Cultural Alliance • United Association . . . — — Map (db m198942) WM
Kelley vs. Board of Education of Nashville
One year after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision, Robert W. Kelley, an American Black, was lured away from East High School when he attempted . . . — — Map (db m145793) HM
Oprah Winfrey spent a significant amount of time as a child living in Nashville with her father and graduated from East Nashville High School (now East Literature Magnet School). It was in Nashville that today's most recognizable woman in America . . . — — Map (db m224811) HM
Josephine Groves Holloway
1898-1988
Josephine Holloway graduated from Fisk Univ. with a degree in sociology in 1923. She worked at Bethlehem Center as a case worker, where she began organizing the first African-American Girl Scouts troops . . . — — Map (db m147410) HM
Formerly United Methodist Neighborhood Centers, Bethlehem Centers of Nashville began as settlement houses: Wesley House (1894), Centenary Center (1908), and Bethlehem Center (1911). Bethlehem Center was one of the first locations for African . . . — — Map (db m147461) HM
The oldest known African-American congregation in Nashville, Capers Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in a brick house near Sulphur Springs in 1832, as the "African Mission” of McKendree Methodist Episcopal Church. . . . — — Map (db m147462) HM
Opened in 1932, the pool served Nashville's white community as a premier swimming facility for nearly 30 years. City officials abruptly closed the pool in 1961 after two African American student civil rights activists, Kwame (Leo) Lillard and . . . — — Map (db m194750) HM
As the longest serving member of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1973-2013), Rep. DeBerry was known as an exemplary legislator. She was the first woman to chair the Shelby County delegation, the first female Speaker Pro Tempore (1987-2010), . . . — — Map (db m203498) HM
The Nashville Institute, renamed Roger Williams University, was located on a 28 acre campus next to Hillsboro Pike from 1874 to 1905. It was the largest of the Baptist schools for African-Americans, influencing many important educators and leaders. . . . — — Map (db m28417) HM
Prominently located on Lake Watauga, the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition's Negro Building celebrated black achievements in business, industry, arts and culture.
Planning for the Negro Building occurred during an era of nationwide civil . . . — — Map (db m182160) HM
In 1867, Jane Watson deeded land to several African-American families, many of them her former slaves. First called Watson Town, the community became known as Mt. Pisgah by 1871. The Methodist Episcopal Church North organized a church here in 1866 . . . — — Map (db m147087) HM
Established during and after the Civil War, Edgehill became a vibrant African American neighborhood in the 20th century, drawing residents through its schools, churches and thriving local economy. Edgehill was home to leaders in government, . . . — — Map (db m160770) HM
"The blood of white and black men has flowed freely together..."
-Union General George Thomas, after the Battle of Nashville in which the US Army included a significant number of African American soldiers — — Map (db m215631) HM
Memphian Benjamin Hooks began his 16-year term as executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1973. — — Map (db m218805) HM
Citizen's Savings Bank and Trust Company, the oldest continuously operating, African- American-owned bank in the United States,
opened its Nashville doors in 1904. — — Map (db m216161) HM
Coach Ed Temple is a Nashville and American legend, the embodiment of perseverance, determination and success.
As women's track coach at Tennessee State University from 1953 to 1994 and coach of the U.S. women's Olympic track team in 1960, 1964 . . . — — Map (db m165436) HM
In 1946, attorneys Thurgood Marshall (later U.S. Supreme Court Justice) and Z. Alexander Looby successfully defended 25 African Americans in the Columbia race riot case, bringing national attention to the issue of civil rights. — — Map (db m218491) HM
Sulphur Dell was the home of Nashville baseball for almost 100 years. Though for much of that time Nashville Vols fans filled the bleachers, dozens of teams, both black and white, played games at the
park. By the 1950s, however, attendance began . . . — — Map (db m175197) HM
Fayette and Haywood Counties received national attention in 1960-1961 when land owners evicted African-American tenant farmers because they sought to exercise their right to vote. — — Map (db m218752) HM
Freedman's Savings and Trust Company Bank. In March 1865, Congress established the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company Bank. A Nashville branch was chartered in Dec. 1865. By 1867, there were 37 branches, mostly in the South. Liberty Hall was . . . — — Map (db m145781) HM
North and west of the State Capitol was an area city reformers called "Hell's Half Acre." Home to immigrants and free and enslaved Blacks, it was a part of a red-light district before, during and after the Civil War. Line St. (now Jo Johnston Ave.) . . . — — Map (db m160543) HM
After Memphis African American newspaper owner and feminist Ida B. Wells demanded justice for lynchings in 1892 editorials, a mob threatened her life and destroyed the Free Speech building. — — Map (db m216112) HM
From 1810 to 1860, the number of slaves in Tennessee increased from 44,734 to 275,719, and the number of free blacks grew from 1,318 to 7,300. — — Map (db m215612) HM
New and varied service and distribution industries, and old standbys such as the music industry, carried Tennessee through the turbulence of the 1960s and the Vietnam War. Racial issues dominated news, culminating with the tragic assassination of . . . — — Map (db m218789) HM
Let this scarlet oak represent the strength and resilience of the people of African descent, and commemorate Africans who died in the Middle Passage, the leg of the Atlantic Triangle in which upwards of 100 million Africans were transported as . . . — — Map (db m131238) HM
In the 1950s. Memphian Mary Church Terrell picketed major Washington, D.C., businesses that
treated African Americans unfairly. — — Map (db m218523) HM
In Chattanooga, African-American Mary Morrison protested Jim Crow laws in 1905 by refusing a back seat in a public streetcar and initiating a streetcar boycott. Other African Americans held similar protests in Jackson, Knoxville, Memphis, and . . . — — Map (db m216163) HM
In 1922, Moses McKissack was joined in Nashville by his brother Calvin to form McKissack & McKissack. It became the nation's oldest. continually operating, African American-owned architectural firm. — — Map (db m218426) HM
Morris Memorial Building. The Morris Memorial Building is named for the Rev. Elijah Camp Morris (1855-1922), who served as the first President of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. from 1895 to 1922. At the time, the National Baptist . . . — — Map (db m174217) HM
Tennessee began to recover slowly from the Civil War that had interrupted its arc of material and social progress. During the Reconstruction era African-Americans made overt political gains which would be eroded by the turn of the century. — — Map (db m215714) HM
Riots followed the assassination at the Lorraine Motel of civil rights leader and nonviolence proponent Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was in Memphis in 1968 to support a strike by sanitation workers. — — Map (db m218868) HM
Rosa Parks studied civil disobedience at the Highlander Folk School, founded at Monteagle in 1932 by Myles Horton and Don West. She energized the modern civil rights movement by initiating the grassroots Montgomery bus boycott in 1955. — — Map (db m218669) HM
Due in part to pressure applied by the National and State Colored Men's Conventions, Tennessee's Brownlow administration granted suffrage for black men in 1867 two years before Congress did. — — Map (db m215707) HM
Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial Normal School for Negroes at Nashville (later Tennessee State University) opened in 1912. — — Map (db m216206) HM
On July 24, 1866 Tennessee was the first state to be restored to the Union after ratifying the 14th amendment which extended citizenship to black freedmen. — — Map (db m215702) HM
Preceding the Civil War, this space, stretching from the intersection of 4th Avenue, North and Charlotte Avenue to the Public Square was the center of the slave trade in Nashville. The slave brokers that lined this thoroughfare provided prospective . . . — — Map (db m145783) HM
Baseball in the African American community has a long and varied history. Restricted from participating with the white community because of segregation laws in the South and collusion among owners in the rest of the country to exclude blacks from . . . — — Map (db m175195) HM
Third State Constitution adopted in 1870
The Constitutional Convention forged a document that aided unifying sentiments by both abolishing slavey and preserving the rights of African Americans to vote. A tax on voting however, prohibited many . . . — — Map (db m215713) HM
Three major Native-American nations were living in future Tennessee when early French and English explorers and their African slaves arrived. Both cooperation and struggle were commonplace among these diverse peoples. — — Map (db m214686) HM
Less than 5% of the state's white population were slaveholders in 1860. Most of these owned 1 or 2 slaves, alongside whom they worked. — — Map (db m215613) HM
In 1937, Nashville sculptor William Edmondson was the first African American to have a one man show at New York's Museum of Modern Art. — — Map (db m218454) HM
The first independent Republican African American gubernatorial candidate, William F. Yardley of Knoxville, captured 1% of the statewide vote in 1876 — — Map (db m215805) HM
On August 18, 1920 women across the country won the right to vote when Tennessee lawmakers cast a tie-breaking vote to ratify the 19th Amendment. Achieving this victory took decades of women's suffrage supporter--writing, marching and lobbying for . . . — — Map (db m214533) HM
This park and the nearby community are named for the
Buena Vista Springs, located on this site. This natural
resource, which continues to flow, was developed into a
popular mineral water spa by the Buena Vista Springs
Company in the late 19th . . . — — Map (db m210489) HM
Buena Vista School
The first Buena Vista School opened in 1888
and was demolished in 1936. Architects Marr &
Holman designed this Jacobean-style school,
opened in 1931. Three African American first
grade students desegregated the school . . . — — Map (db m242703) HM
(Obverse)
Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company is the oldest, continuously operated African-American bank in the United States. Formerly known as the One-Cent Savings Bank and Trust Company and organized for the uplift of African . . . — — Map (db m81434) HM
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Nashville within days of the bombing of the Looby home, and the subsequent march on City Hall. He spoke to a capacity crowd at Fisk University and told them that the Nashville sit-ins were the best organized and . . . — — Map (db m208818) HM
Ed Temple, for whom the stretch of 28th Ave N north of Jefferson St. is named, spent 44 years coaching the Tennessee State University women's track team, from 1950 until his retirement in 1994. During his tenure, TSU became known for its elite . . . — — Map (db m213249) HM
Organized January 15, 1885, Nashville's first African-American fire unit, Engine Company No. 4, was located at 424 Woodland St. On January 2, 1892 Capt. C. C. Gowdy, hoseman Harvey Ewing, and reel driver Stokely Allen were killed while battling a . . . — — Map (db m151703) HM
In July 1932, the Rev. Wayman R. Horton organized the First Independent African Methodist Community Church. Instrumental in the Nashville Civil Rights Movement, the church's name was officially changed to First Community Church in 1966. The Rev. . . . — — Map (db m160112) HM
Fisk University was founded in Nashville in January of 1866 on the former site of a civil war barracks. In the years since its inception, Fisk has played a leading role in the education and advancement of African-Americans nationwide, with a strong . . . — — Map (db m213248) HM
Native American Roots
Long before the settlement of Nashville, Native Americans had strong ties to this land. Archaeological Investigations have returned varied and numerous prehistoric artifacts from the Middle Woodland Period (200BCE - . . . — — Map (db m206501) HM
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