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Scope and content: A variety of materials, mostly brochures, booklets, or similar items, concerning various group homes typically providing institutional care, such as orphanages, old age homes, retirement homes, children's homes, and similar facilities. Most folders contain less than five items, and often only a single item. Contains some photocopies.
Materials include: Small booklets containing histories of: the Protestant Orphan Asylum in Nashville;...
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Scope and content: 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. During the 1 hour and 11 minute interview, Berry discusses such topics as her childhood and education, including her experiences in a Nashville orphanage called Buva College; Nashville neighborhoods and businesses; segregation...
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Scope and content: Contains information about Buva College Rescue Home and Training School for Negro Children, a private relief organization operated in Nashville, Tenn. by Dr. Moses Mullins. Contains brief financial statements (1946 and 1953); two brochures; publicity materials, including a large illustrated poster/program for a 1947 fundraiser held at War Memorial Auditorium, featuring performances by the Willia Mai Ford Smith, the Waterford Sisters,...
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