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In May 2019, the Metropolitan Nashville Davidson County Community Remembrance Project (We Remember Nashville) announced its plans together with the Equal Justice Initiative to conduct several days of remembrance and education to mark the local history of lynchings of black men. Brothers Ephraim and Henry Grizzard, killed on April 30 and 24 ...
Samuel Smith ran away, and tried to hitch-hike to Nashville. [1] The next morning, Sam Smith was arrested 100 yards from Eastwood's house. The police took him to Nashville's General Hospital for treatment, where he was chained to his bed. [1] [2] His uncle Jim Smith was captured by police at the garage, and was taken to the county jail. [1]
What local citizens called "Overton's Folly" [3] was finally completed and opened in fall 1869; total costs were $500,000. [1] The Maxwell House was Nashville's largest hotel, with five stories and 240 rooms. It advertised steam heat, gas lighting, and a bath on every floor. Rooms cost $4 a day, including meals. [1]
In 1868 in Tennessee, Samuel Bierfield became the first American Jew to be lynched. The lynching of Leo Frank is the most well-known case in American history. [ 2 ] The lynching of Frank is commonly perceived as the only lynching of an American Jew, despite several other known cases before and after.
Since 1999, there have been 11 shootings in schools in Tennessee, which was among the top 10 deadliest states for gun violence in general in 2020 Nashville’s history school shootings as six ...
Bierfield and his African-American clerk, Lawrence Bowman, were confronted in Bierfield's store in Franklin, Tennessee, and fatally shot on August 15, 1868, by a group of masked men. The killers were believed to belong to a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan , which had emerged as an insurgent force in the state in 1866.
Former Metro Nashville Police Department Det. Bill Pridemore, guest speaker for a new Tennessean podcast of the 1989 investigation that came to be known as Murder on Music Row, at the newsroom in ...
Kenneth P'pool, who chaired the Nathan Bedford Forrest Bust Committee of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in 1973 (P'pool reportedly also earlier supported the candidacy of George Wallace for president in 1968), the late Tennessee state Senator and Sons of Confederate Veterans Joseph E. Johnston Camp 28 member Douglas Henry (D-Nashville), and the late Civil War expert and collector Lanier ...