Elevating local African American history
Some contributions are well known — like the lunch counter sit-ins and school desegregation. Others have been lost to history. Today, we hear from those who work to preserve and elevate their history. The Nashville Conference on African American History and Culture is an all-day conference in its 44th year. The Nashville City Cemetery Association created a program to honor the more than 6,000 African Americans buried there, almost 3,000 without identification in the formal record. Dr. Edward Robinson, who has written a book about prominent Nashville faith and business leader, Preston Taylor…
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