Julia Green biographical interviews, 1999.
(Document/manuscript/pamphlet/archival material)

Materials housed in Special Collections Division of the Main Library, Nashville Public Library.

In library use only. Available by appointment.

Scope and content: Eight VHS videotapes about the life and legacy of Nashville, Tenn. educator, Julia Green, conducted in 1999 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the elementary school named in her honor. Videotapes consist of interviews with local historian, Carol Kaplan; Green's niece, Florence Weiland; and Harriet and John Malone. Green was the Malone's paternal great aunt. Tape #1, entitled "Julia Green: More than a Name," appears to be a documentary produced from the raw footage of interviews contained on the seven other tapes in the collection. The first tape runs approximately twelve minutes; all other individual tapes are between 25 and 30 minutes long.

As a whole, subjects include the life of Julia Green, including her activities as a teacher and educator; women's roles and expectations in the early half of the twentieth century; Green's fondness for fashion and jewelry; her Methodist faith and upbringing; family information, with special mention of her grandfather, Rev. A.L.P. Green, a Methodist minister; West End Methodist Church; the family home at Greenland; narrations and descriptions of various photographs shown during the interviews; and a number of family anecdotes and recollections.

Cite as: Julia Green Biographical Interviews, Special Collections Division, Nashville Public Library

VHS.

Copyright 1999 by Julia Green PTA. Nashville Public Library does not have intellectual property rights to these materials.

Source of acquisition unknown;,Acc. RT-100.

Julia Green was born on Feb. 9, 1873 at the Maxwell House Hotel, the first of five children of Frank W. and Patty (Anderson) Green. She was the granddaughter of Methodist minister, Rev. A.L.P. Green, and had a brother of the same name. She grew up at Greenland, the family home located near White's Creek Pike. She never married, but attended Peabody College, the University of Tennessee and Columbia University. She taught at Shwab School for a time in the early twentieth century, but in 1911 became the first supervisor of Davidson County elementary schools and first school supervisor in the state of Tennessee. Her job was to aid, train, and encourage teachers. She visited every school in the county on a regular basis. She retired from this position in 1944 at the age of 71, but continued working with the school system in the position of director of character education - a position created specially for her. In 1948, Julia Green Elementary School was named after her - a very prestigious honor, for no school in Davidson County had ever been named for a living person before. Among her many notable accomplishments throughout her career were: developing a hot school lunch program; advocating for childhood immunizations and dental health; beginning Career Day in local high schools; and helping to found: the Association for Childhood Education; the National Education Association in Davidson County (a teacher's union); and a local chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma (an honor society for women educators). She was also a strong advocate of parent-teacher associations in all the schools. She died on Oct. 21, 1961.

In English

Summaries of contents for each videotape are available in the repository.

Unknown provenance.

Forms part of the Miscellaneous Audio-Visual Collection.

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