Since its founding, Nashville has been a center of black urban culture in the Upper South. Blacks slave and free made up 20 percent of Fort Nashborough s settlers in 1779. From these early years through the Civil War, a growing black community in Nashville, led by a small group of black elites, quietly built the foundations of a future society, developing schools, churches, and businesses. The Civil War brought new freedoms and challenges as the black population of Nashville increased and as black elites found themselves able even obliged to act more openly. To establish a more stable and...
Since its founding, Nashville has been a center of black urban culture in the Upper South. Blacks slave and free made up 20 percent of Fort Nashbor...
From legal battles to sit-ins to freedom rides to marches, activists in the United States rose up against racial discrimination in the civil rights movement. While many books have focused on the national campaign and prominent leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, this is the first book to examine the civil rights movement in the state of Tennessee. Bobby L. Lovett proposes that African Americans have always had a civil rights movement in Tennessee, even during slavery. He identifies three phases of the movement in the state 1864 to 1880, 1881 to 1934, and 1935 to the present...
From legal battles to sit-ins to freedom rides to marches, activists in the United States rose up against racial discrimination in the civil rights mo...
