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Pictured: Nashville Mayor Ben West (left) with Dr. Z Alexander Looby (right), circa February, 1955. Looby was born in Antigua, British West Indies, on April 8, 1899. He was a notable African-American lawyer and a staunch civil rights advocate and served on the old city council and the new Metropolitan Council for twenty years. In 1963 Looby became a member of the Metropolitan Charter Commission. Mayor Ben West was the 62nd mayor of Nashville, in office from 1951-1963. Forms part of Record Group 3, Metro Davidson County Photographer. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 4 x 5 in.
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- African American Lawyers
- African Americans
- Buildings, Structures, Etc
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Leaders
- Civil Rights Movements
- History
- Lawyers
- Looby, Z. Alexander (Zephaniah Alexander), 1899 1972
- Mayors
- Nashville
- Nashville (Tenn.)
- Nashville And Davidson County (Tenn.)
- Social Life And Customs
- Sources
- Tennessee
- West, Ben, 1911 1974