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| Creator: | Berry, Mary Frances |
| Title: | Excerpt 1 from oral history interview with Mary Frances Berry, 2003 September 05 |
| Date: | 2003 Sept. 5 |
| Description: | 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. |
| Types: | Sound recordings | Oral histories |
| Subjects: | Berry, Mary Frances--Interviews | Buva College Rescue Home and Training School for Negro Children | African Americans--Social conditions | African Americans--Civil rights--Tennessee--Nashville | Civil rights--Tennessee--Nashville | Civil rights workers--Tennessee--Nashville | Civil rights movements--Tennessee--Nashville | African Americans--Segregation--Tennessee--Nashville | Orphanages--Tennessee--Nashville | Nashville (Tenn.)--Race relations | Nashville (Tenn.)--History | Nashville (Tenn.)--Social conditions | Twelfth Avenue North (Nashville, Tenn.) | Nashville (Tenn.) | Davidson County (Tenn.) |
| Collection: | Nashville Public Library Digital Collections Portal: Civil Rights |
| Institution: | Nashville Public Library |
| Contributors: | Egerton, John | Public Library of Nashville and Davidson County. Special Collections Division | Civil Rights Online Collection (Public Library of Nashville and Davidson County. Special Collections Division) | James, Carolyn |
| Online Publisher: | Nashville, Tenn. : Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library | 2006 |
| Original Material: | Excerpted from: CROHPBerry audio cassette recording(s) converted to mp3 format in 2006. Civil Rights Oral History Project, Special Collections Division, Nashville Public Library. |
| Rights and Usage: | U.S. and international copyright laws protect this digital content, which is provided for educational purposes only and may not be downloaded, reproduced, or distributed for any other purpose without written permission. Please contact the Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219. Telephone (615) 862-5782. |
| Related Materials: | Forms part of online collection: Civil Rights Online Collection. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://digital.library.nashville.org/u?/nr,218 |
