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‘To teach the next generation’: A former schoolhouse for Black children finds a new home in Franklin

Char Daston

February 23, 2024

A white clapboard schoolhouse is unloaded from the back of a semi-truck, in darkness. The ground below the truck is a pile of dirt.
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A historic schoolhouse for Black children was relocated from its original site in the tiny rural community of Duplex, Tenn. It now sits in the middle of downtown Franklin. It’s part of an effort by the Heritage Foundation of Williamson County to restore the school.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Education, History, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: desegregation, Franklin, Williamson County

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

Remembering TSU President Fred Humphries And His Role In Saving The State’s Only Public HBCU

Nina Cardona

July 12, 2021

exterior of Tennessee State University's downtown building, the Avon Williams Campus

A former president of Tennessee State University is being laid to rest Monday. Dr. Fred Humphries is credited as a key figure in the effort to prevent the state’s only historically black public university from being dissolved.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: desegregation, Geier case, history, Tennessee State University

Civil Rights Art Project Seeks Local Voices

Nina Cardona

March 10, 2013

The Metro Arts Commission is hoping for a strong turnout this week at a workshop about Nashville’s Civil Rights history. The next piece of public art is meant to honor the lunch counter sit ins of the 60s, and officials say public input is a key piece of getting it right.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, History, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: civil rights, desegregation, Metro Arts Commission, public art, sit-ins

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