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Jones, Samuel

A flamboyant Methodist evangelist, Samuel Jones came to Nashville in 1885 as the result of a boast he made in Memphis that no church in the "city of churches" would be able to contain the crowds he would attract. When…

Jonesborough

The oldest town in Tennessee, Jonesborough was chartered by the State of North Carolina in 1779 and laid out in 1780. Named for Willie Jones, a resident of Halifax, North Carolina, who supported the western settlements, the town served as…

Jonesborough

The Chester Inn in 1886 during Jonesborough s largest snowfall on record.

Jonesborough

A Full View of Deaderick s Hill, by Rebecca Chester, 1810-1811.

Josephine Groves Holloway

Josephine Holloway and her granddaughter Nareda in the early 1960s.

Jubilee Hall At Fisk University

Funds raised by the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University were used to construct the first permanent building on the campus of Fisk University, Jubilee Hall, named for them.

Jubilee Hall at Fisk University

Fisk Free School opened its doors in January 1866 in Nashville near what is today the site of Union Station. At the time, the campus's only buildings consisted of small, wooden hospital barracks originally built to serve Union soldiers who…

Jubilee Singers of Fisk University

In 1871, only four years after the incorporation of Fisk Free School as Fisk University in Nashville, the school for emancipated African Americans faced impending closure. Classrooms and living quarters continued to be housed in the decaying barracks of the…

Jubilee Singers Of Fisk University

Featuring the original group of Jubilee Singers, this portrait hangs in Jubilee Hall at Fisk University.

Jubilee Singers Of Fisk University

Fisk Jubilee Singers, 1873.

Julia Britton Hooks

Julia Britton Hooks.

Julius Rosenwald Fund

Sears, Roebuck and Company magnate Julius Rosenwald created the Julius Rosenwald Fund (JRF) in 1917 to coordinate his contributions for African American education. Guided by Booker T. Washington, Rosenwald supported the expansion of public education for rural southern blacks within…

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Kabalka, George W.

George Kabalka, pioneer in the use of organoborane chemistry in the area of radiopharmaceuticals containing short-lived nuclides, was born in Wyandotte, Michigan, February 1, 1943. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1965 and his Ph.D.…

Kate Bradford Stockton

Kate Bradford Stockton.

Keeble, Edwin A.

An important twentieth-century architect, Edwin A. Keeble was born in Monteagle Assembly, the fourth of six children of John Bell and Emmie Frazer Keeble. His father was a Nashville attorney and later the dean of the Vanderbilt University Law School.…

Keeble, Marshall

Marshall Keeble, born in Rutherford County in 1878, became the best-known African American leader in the Churches of Christ of the twentieth century. In May 2000 The Christian Chronicle named Keeble as its person for the decade 1940 to 1950…

Keeble, Sampson W.

This Nashville barber, businessman, and politician became the first African American elected to the Tennessee General Assembly. Keeble was born circa 1832 in Rutherford County to slave parents, Sampson W. and Nancy Keeble. From the age of nineteen until 1863…

Kefauver, Carey Estes

U.S. Congressman and Senator Estes Kefauver was the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1956. Kefauver was born in Madisonville and received his education at the University of Tennessee (1924) and Yale Law School (1927). He practiced law in Chattanooga (1927-39) and…

Kelly v. Board of Education

This lawsuit filed by several African American families in 1955 to desegregate the Nashville public schools dramatically altered education patterns, and its various remedies continue to generate debate. The longest-running case in Tennessee history (the federal court in Nashville still…

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