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Excerpt 1 from oral history interview with Mary Frances Berry, 2003 September 05

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An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant Mary Frances Berry, conducted on 5 September 2003 by John Egerton as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Berry discusses her childhood in Nashville living in an orphanage called Buva College. She describes the neighborhood on 12th Avenue North where the family lived after her mother came and got her from the orphanage as being racially mixed at the time. The complete interview, as well as a transcript, is available in the repository.
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Sound
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Sound Oral Histories
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Nashville Public Library

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Digital Library of Tennessee