For over forty years, the Metropolitan Historical Commission and Tennessee State University have celebrated the contributions of African Americans to Nashville and Tennessee through the Nashville Conference on African-American History and Culture. Each February, Nashvillians come together to honor these individuals through historical and cultural presentations by historians, artists, students, dramatists, musicians, genealogists, and others interested in the history of our city and state. The long-running series, Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee, a collection of nearly two hundred short publications, makes the Conference research available to the public.

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Submissions from 1986

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Kelley v. Board of Education: the Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville, Linda T. Wynn

Submissions from 1997

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Wilma Rudolph and the TSU Tigerbelles, Bobby Lovett

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Tennessee Centennial Exposition, Reavis Mitchell

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Tennessee State University at the Centennial (1912-2012), Reavis Mitchell

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The Negro Branch of the Carnegie Library, Linda T. Wynn

Submissions from 1998

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African-American Builders of Sevier County, Tennessee, Robbie D. Jones

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Aaron Douglas (1899 -1979), Reavis L. Mitchell, Jr.

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Harold M. Love (1919 -1996), Pamela Smoot

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Theodore "Ted" Rhodes (1913 - 1969), Linda T. Wynn

Submissions from 1999

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Jefferson Street, Reavis L. Mitchell, Jr.

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People's Saving Bank and Trust Company (1909 - 1930), Linda T. Wynn

Submissions from 2000

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Patti Julia Malone 1859-1897, Mary Glenn Hearne

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Luther Plato Carmichael, 1905 -1998, Linda T. Wynn

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Marshall Keeble, Linda T. Wynn

Submissions from 2001

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The Tennessee Rural African-American Church Project and Craigs Chapel AME Zion Church of Loudon County, Caneta Skelley Hankins

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Vivien T. Thomas 1910-1985, Reavis L. Mitchell, Jr.

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Eva Lowert Bowman 1899-1984, Linda T. Wynn

Submissions from 2004

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The Clinton High School Desegregation Case, Linda T. Wynn

Submissions from 2005

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Mrs. Curlie (C.E.) McGruder, Pamela Lane-Bobo

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Gregory D. Ridley, Jr. (1925 -2004), Reavis L. Mitchell, Jr.

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Frances Euphemia Thompson (C. 1900-1992), Leslie N. Sharp

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Economic Withdrawal During the Nashville Sit-Ins, Linda T. Wynn

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Nashville and Its Role in Desegregating The SouthEastern Conference, Linda T. Wynn

Submissions from 2008

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James Raymond Lawson (1915 -1996), Crystal deGregory

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Henry Alvin Cameron (1872-1918), Donald L. Johnson

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Fisk's Stieglitz Collection Controversy: Radiator Building in Retrospect, Reavis L. Mitchell, Jr.

Submissions from 2010

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29th Annual Nashville Conference on African-American History and Culture (Program), Metropolitan Nashville Historical Commission

Submissions from 2011

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Nashville's Jefferson Street, Reavis L. Mitchell, Jr.

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Mattie E. Coleman, Linda T. Wynn

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Riding for Equality and Justice : Nashville Student Activists and the 1961 Freedom Rides, Linda T. Wynn (Revised, 2006)

Submissions from 2012

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Tennessee State University's Aristocrat of Bands, Linda T. Wynn

Submissions from 2013

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Metropolitan Consolidation and Nashville's African-American Community, Carole Bucy

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Hiram Van Gordon (1918-1979), Learotha Williams

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The Emancipation Proclamation in Tennessee, Linda T. Wynn

Submissions from 2014

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Fort Negley, Krista Castillo

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Beth Madison Howse, Crystal deGregory

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Thomas Washington Talley, Tara Mitchell Mielnik

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James Weldon Johnson, Linda T. Wynn

Submissions from 2015

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Samuel F. Yette, Pamela E. Foster

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John McCline, Stephen T. Rogers

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Elbert Williams, Linda T. Wynn

Submissions from 2016

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Roland Hayes (1887-1977), Pamela Bobo

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Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee (Book Project), Bobby L. Lovett and Linda T. Wynee

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Dr. Matthew W. Kennedy (1921-2014), Gloria McKissack

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Fisk University Historic District, Tara Mitchell Mielnik

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John Hope Franklin (1915 - 2009), Learotha Williams

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Juliette Derricotte (1897-1931), Linda T. Wynn

Submissions from 2017

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Lillian "Lil" Hardin Armstrong (1898-1971), K. T. Ewing

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The First Day of (Desegregated) School in Nashville, September 9,1957, Tara Mitchell Mielnik

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Coach Edwards S. Temple (1927-2016), Fletcher F. Moon

Submissions from 2018

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Edgehill, Joel Dark

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George Edmund Haynes, 1880-1960, Reavis L. Mitchell, Jr.

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Nettie Langston Napier, Learotha Williams

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Nashville and Davidson County Public Schools Names for African Americans, Linda T. Wynn

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Remembering the Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr (January 15, 1929-April 4 ,1968), Linda T. Wynn

Submissions from 2019

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Lewis Winter, Nashville Entrepreneur (1839-1911), Gloria McKissack

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Zema W. Hill (1891-1970), Reavis L. Mitchell, Jr. (Revised 1990)

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Interstate 40 and the Decimation of Jefferson Street, Linda T. Wynn

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DeFord Bailey (1899 -1982), Linda T. Wynn (Revised, 1989)

Submissions from 2021

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Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee (Second Edition), Bobby L. Lovett, Linda T. Wynn, and Caroline Eller

Submissions from 2022

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College Hill, Caroline Eller

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Jackson Hicks Brown (1908 - 1968), Caroline Eller

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Kossie Gardner, Sr. (1897 - 1990), Caroline Eller

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Callie Guy House (1861 - 1928), Linda T. Wynn

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Minnie Lou Crosthwaite (1860 - 1937), Linda T. Wynn

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Morris Memorial Building and Its Contribution to Nashville's Religious Printing Tradition, Linda T. Wynn

Submissions from 2023

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JohnEtta Hayes (1915-2008), Caroline Eller

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Marion James-Majors (1934-2016), Caroline Eller

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Nashville Christian Institute (1940-1967), Elizabeth Johnson, Ph.D.

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Gardner's Gold Coast: Nashville's First African American Subdivision, Linda T. Wynn

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Z. Alexander Looby, Robert E. Lillard, and the Chartering of Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County, Linda T. Wynn

Submissions from 2024

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Clark Memorial Methodist Church, Claudette Stager

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First Community Church, Claudette Stager

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Updates re: the Bass Street Community at Fort Negley Park, Angela Sutton

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The African American Journey on the Road to Attain Civil and Human Rights, Linda T. Wynn

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The Centennial Year of American Baptist College 1924 - 2024, Linda T. Wynn