When a future justice of the U.S. Supreme Court sued Nashville's school system over racial discrimination in teacher pay, his success became a precursor to bigger things
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When Vanderbilt invited a militant advocate of 'black power' to speak 41 years ago this week, the resulting controversy rocked the city from Jefferson Street to Belle Meade Boulevard
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Two fixtures of today's downtown open their doors in 1926, and the legislature hunts down subversives on Monteagle Mountain in 1959
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Eight leap-days ago, a surprise retirement announcement opened the way for Gore to begin his political career. (Audio of interview with the late Sen. Albert Gore Sr. included.)
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The city's surrender trumps imminent corporal punishment, and a local judge survives a grand jury's efforts to indict him
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A decade ago tomorrow, owners announced the closure of the 122-year-old Nashville Banner
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This week in our history: Moments of hype, hollerin' and genuine enthusiasm over car sales, a presidential visit, the Jubilee Singers and more
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101 years ago, and 203 years ago, visionaries in Nashville were touting what they hoped would be widespread improvements in quality of life for ordinary people
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This week in our history: Citizens mobilizing against the Red Menace, and deadlocked Democrats trying to choose a U.S. senator... Also: A bizarre little magazine emerges from Nashville's 1980s rock scene
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The beginning of the end at Minnie Pearl's, Fritz Ingram's friends in high places, and an evocative remembrance of steamboat days
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