Fried chicken, baked potato casserole, cornbread, and turnip greens.
Let me get a “Don’t Ask Me to Do Nothing Else Today” plate with large sweet tea please. 😋☺️😴😴😴
#northnashville
#FriedChickenWednesday
Three women and a man sitting at a table in a radio station.
A photo of Z. Alexander Looby.
A photo of Avon N. Williams.
At WFSK chatting with and talking about two iconic Nashvillians.
#northnashville
#hbcu
#LoobyandWilliams
Enjoying a Miles set while enjoying a cup of Yirgacheffe. For the next 7 minutes, my office has become the most 🔥 coffee house in #northnashville.
Now Playing. Ahmad’s Blues. Miles Davis Quartet 🧵
#tsu
#hbcu
The ABCs of #northnashville History.
A is for Avon Williams. Nashville’s “Apostle” for Civil Rights.
Williams was involved in virtually every major civil rights case in Tennessee. He filed Tennessee’s first public school desegregation case in Anderson County in 1950. 🧵
#BlackHistoryMonth2026
Dear Santa Claus: Tam a little girl and my name is Letha Porterfield. Though grandma scolds me at times i hope you will not forget to bring me something. Dear Santa Claus: Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 9, 1910. I am a little girl 8 years old and I want you to bring me a large colored doll, some nuts and candy. That is all for this time. WILLA MARY RUCKER.
Early 20th Century “Dear Santa” Letters from
#NorthNashville
Interestingly shaped buildings at 11th Ave North & Buchanan Street
A single story building covered in artful graffiti
Brick facade building with Leon's Liquors painted.
Elephant art gallery
#NorthNashville
Buchanan Street
A horizontal black and white film photo of a street scene view of George Whipple Hubbard Hospital at Meharry Medical College with 1950s cars out front
George Whipple Hubbard Hospital at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee 1957
See more at grannisvintagenashville.com. We always have prints and products for purchase!
#nashville #nashvillehistory #meharry #northnashville #nashvillevintage #oldphoto #photoarchive #1950s
In the meeting room of the Carnegie Library in #northnashville about to talk about the McKissack Brothers and Black Architects.
#BlackBuilders
#architecture
#teachhistory
I remember the time when Eph Grizzard was hung over the bridge. That time they had what they called a "dummy" running from here to East Nashville. Run right down by the jail. Eph was in the jail. They had a black mother-hubbard on him to tell him from the rest of the prisoners. They took him out of jail and went running up First Avenue to the bridge, and tied the rope around his neck and threw him over. It was about three o'clock. He hung there from three until about six o'clock. They would take a hold of that rope every once in a while and give it a yank. The sheriff of Goodletsville got up on the bridge and made a speech and said, "If anybody, rich or poor, black or white, grizzly or gray, get up and say anything in this nigger's behalf we will take them and do them the same way." Five or six men was killed trying to get to the jail to get Eph out. I was working down on the wharf at Broad this side of the Tennessee Central station. My heart ached within me. I looked to see that bridge fall in there was so many people on it that day. I heard that woman had a child afterwards, butl don't know. They killed him and burned him up.
Thinking about Henry and Eph Grizzard as I walked past his lynching marker this AM.
During the 1930s, a woman from #northnashville told us about that day.
#teachhistory
#NashvilleHistorySky
That moment when you run into your student and see your face in front of one the most soulful places in the city.
My life is complete.🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
#northnashville
#canttellmenothing
#JSSM
he was by no means “George’s Boy” as most Pullman Porters were commonly called. In #northnashville, he was seen by many as one of its most dignified and well-respected residents.
An image of George Hall, a Pullman Porter, superimposed over a trainwreck.
Remembering George Hall
Labor Day 2025
George Hall, #northnashville resident, a major in the Knights of Pythias, and Pullman Porter on the NC&St.L Railroad was killed in the Dutchman’s Curve train disaster in 1918.
#LaborDay
He pulled the Watermelon Couch out at Hadley Park where we chatted about the history of Black Farmers in the Volunteer State and how tall-n-skinnies and weeds have similar attributes. 🤔
Check out this brilliant artist’s work on his website and IG.
#CreativeShields
#BlackFarmers
#northnashville
Hey, #NorthNashville! Join us for a free R&B performance by the Jannelle Means Duo and free lunch. Hosted by the Trustee’s Office and @musicforseniorstn.bsky.social
📅 Tuesday, July 29
🕙 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
📍Hartman Park Center
🔗 Scan QR Code or register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/music-for-...
Hey, #NorthNashville! Join us for a free R&B performance by the Jannelle Means Duo and free lunch. Hosted by the Trustee’s Office and @musicforseniorstn.bsky.social
📅 Wednesday, July 30
🕙11:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.
📍Hartman Park Center
🔗 Scan QR Code or register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/music-for-...
One of the best #Art galleries in Nashville can be found ouchea in these #northnashville streets.
#murals
#streetphotography
During the late autumn, the park is one of the most beautiful spaces in #northnashville. One of my favorite memories of the park was teaching a course on Black Nashville to a group of seniors, and witnessing a solar eclipse play out on the trunk of my car.
#photography
#solareclipse
#park
Had a wonderful evening at TPAC celebrating some of Nashville’s brightest stars—people whose work I’ve long admired and am honored to call friends. It was a night of joy and inspiration
#TPAC #NashvilleLuminaries #NorthNashville
Catching the vibrant vibes at the Dr. Ernest Rip Patton/North Nashville Transit Center.
The murals here are a bold tribute to the heart and soul of the community.
#streetart🎨👨🏾🎨
#murals
#northnashville
Excited and honored to be presenting at the Fleming-Morrow Distinguished Lecture on African American History and Symposium this Thursday alongside an incredible group of scholars. If you’re in Knoxville, come through and join the conversation! 🧵
#BlackHistory
#northnashville
Antebellum Nashville
“WANTED, We wish to hire for the balance of the year, a stout young Negro Woman, who has a child
She is wanted as an a Wet Nurse.”
#northnashville
#Womenshistorymonth
#ThrowbackThursday
“Devastation vs Jubilation”
Hopewell Baptist Church in the aftermath of the Nashville 2020 Tornado vs Yesterday
#northnashville
#BlackHistory
The ABCs of #northnashville History.
H is for Hattie Jackson. In 1910, Hattie Jackson became the fifth president of the Nashville Chapter of the Phillis Wheatley Club, one of the city’s most active and visible Women's Clubs.
#BlackHistoryMonth
he was by no means “George’s Boy” as most Pullman Porters were commonly called. In #northnashville, he was seen by many as one of its most dignified and well-respected residents.
