Black Nashville in History and Public Memory
Location
Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
19-9-2017 1:00 PM
Description
For much of Nashville’s history, the contributions of African Americans in its past have been marginalized and erased. This is especially true in its public spaces. Indeed, many of the city’s most popular tourist and residential destinations are spaces that are intimately connected to the city’s African American past.This lecture will explore the African American experience in Music City and how their presence in the city is at once manifested and ignored in public memory. In this short conversation, we will identify and discuss how the presence of African Americans helped shape Nashville as a frontier town during the antebellum period and facilitated its transformation into a modern Southern city during the latter half of the 19th and 20th centuries. This talk will also highlight prominent women, men and spaces that played significant roles in giving the city its unique Southern identity.
Recommended Citation
Williams, Learotha, "Black Nashville in History and Public Memory" (2017). Humanities Symposium. 27.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2017/2017/27
Black Nashville in History and Public Memory
Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094
For much of Nashville’s history, the contributions of African Americans in its past have been marginalized and erased. This is especially true in its public spaces. Indeed, many of the city’s most popular tourist and residential destinations are spaces that are intimately connected to the city’s African American past.This lecture will explore the African American experience in Music City and how their presence in the city is at once manifested and ignored in public memory. In this short conversation, we will identify and discuss how the presence of African Americans helped shape Nashville as a frontier town during the antebellum period and facilitated its transformation into a modern Southern city during the latter half of the 19th and 20th centuries. This talk will also highlight prominent women, men and spaces that played significant roles in giving the city its unique Southern identity.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Global Citizenship, Leadership, Diversity and the Professions