- Collection:
- Nashville Public Library Digital Collections Portal: Civil Rights
- Title:
- Excerpt 1 from oral history interview with Mary Frances Berry, 2003 September 05
- Creator:
- Berry, Mary Frances
- Contributor to Resource:
- Egerton, John
James, Carolyn - Publisher:
- Excerpted from: CROHPBerry audio cassette recording(s) converted to mp3 format in 2006.
Civil Rights Oral History Project, Special Collections Division, Nashville Public Library. - Date of Original:
- 2003-09-05
- Subject:
- 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.) - People:
- Berry, Mary Frances--Interviews
- Location:
- United States, Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville, 36.16589, -86.78444
- Medium:
- sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Sound
- 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.
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.library.nashville.org/u?/nr,218
- Rights Holder:
- 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.
- Extent:
- audio/mp3 (1.69 MB; 1 min., 51 sec.)
- Contributing Institution:
- Nashville Public Library (Tenn.). Special Collections Division
- Rights:
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