Description
Excerpts from an interview with Betty Nixon on 16 June 2004 by Kathryn G. Bennett as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Nixon discusses childhood experiences that led to her awareness of segregation and racist sentiments in Nashville, Tennessee. The complete interview as well as an index is available in the Special Collections Division.
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Digital Library of TennesseeKeywords
- African Americans
- Anti Racism
- Architecture
- Children's History
- Church Buildings
- Civil Rights
- Education
- Elementary Schools
- History
- Interviews
- Methodists
- Nashville
- Nashville (Tenn.)
- Nixon, Betty Chiles, 1936
- Popular Culture
- Race Relations
- Racism
- Segregation
- Social Conditions
- Sources
- Tennessee
- Walter O. Parmer School (Nashville, Tenn.)
- West End United Methodist Church (Nashville, Tenn.)