Publication Date
Winter 2-27-2025
Presentation Length
Poster/Gallery presentation
College
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
Department
Honors Program
Student Level
Undergraduate
SPARK Category
Scholarship
Faculty Advisor
Mary Ellen Pethel
SPARK Session
10:15-11:45 Honors Social Justice Collaborative
Presentation Type
Poster
Summary
This research project aims to contextualize the story surrounding various Nashville monuments that memorialize civil rights leaders. This project will explore the history of monuments and road names in Nashville. The history will span from the Confederacy to the civil rights movement and examine how public memory has evolved and changed with the removal of some statues and the changing of road names. It aims to show who we choose to memorialize and why, and how the civil rights leaders we choose to remember reflects public sentiment of the civil rights era.
Recommended Citation
O'Brien, Sophie A., "Public Memory Through Memorialization" (2025). SPARK Symposium Presentations. 179.
https://repository.belmont.edu/spark_presentations/179
Included in
Cultural History Commons, Infrastructure Commons, Political History Commons, Public History Commons, Public Policy Commons, Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies Commons, Social History Commons, Social Justice Commons, United States History Commons
