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civil rights movement

Exploring the legacy of Nashville’s Freedom Riders

Rose Gilbert

May 17, 2022

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In today’s episode, we explore the legacy of Nashville’s Freedom Riders with poets and a journalist. Then we’re joined by a local Civil Rights activist to learn more about her participation in the sit-ins and the role that education plays in preserving the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: civil rights, civil rights movement, Freedom Rides

Hidden history of Nashville’s segregated pools gets permanent reminder with new Centennial Park marker

Julia Ritchey

March 23, 2022

Centennial Park new Civil Rights marker
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For 50 years, Centennial Park’s Art Center has served as a community hub for exhibits and teaching workshops. But there was a time when the arts center was a bathhouse for one of the city’s segregated pools during Jim Crow. Now, this hidden history will have a permanent reminder.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Centennial Park, civil rights, civil rights movement, desegregation, Kwame Lillard, matthew walker jr., Metro Parks, pools

To honor Civil Rights leader Diane Nash, Nashville leaders pivot from naming a park to a plaza

Paige Pfleger

November 4, 2021

Rev C T Vivian

After a failed attempt to rename a Nashville park after civil rights icon Diane Nash, a member of the Metro Council is trying a different approach.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: civil rights movement, Diane Nash

Metro Parks Board won’t alter its rules to name a park after civil rights icon Diane Nash

Paige Pfleger

November 2, 2021

Black leaders march down Jefferson Street in 1960.

Some members of the Metro Parks Board were unwilling to waive a rule to rename Nashville’s Public Square Park after Diane Nash.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: civil rights movement, Diane Nash, Metro Parks

Nashville’s Civil Rights history to be gathered in one place through federally funded project

Tony Gonzalez

October 19, 2021

John Lewis Nashville police

Metro’s Historical Commission is receiving a $50,000 federal grant from the African American Civil Rights program, which is overseen by the National Park Service.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Metro, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: civil rights movement, history, Metro Historical Commission

Rip Patton, Who Shared Stories And Songs About The Freedom Rides, Dies At 81

Emily Siner

August 25, 2021

Lifelong Nashville resident and activist Earnest Rip Patton has died. He was best known for his role in the Freedom Rides, the student movement to desegregate interstate buses in the South.

Filed Under: Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: civil rights movement, Freedom Rides, history

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