Dr. Martin Luther King’s Memphis Movement started in the 1950s and inspired much of the non-violent protests that happened in Nashville a few years later.
A Nashville woman is so convinced of the many untold stories of Black History in Nashville, she's starting her own newspaper.
On August 27, 1956, Bobby Cain became the first African American to walk through the doors of an all-white public high school in the South, two years after the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling, ordering schools in the South admit black students to public schools.
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