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William N. Bilbo – attorney, lobbyist for passage of the 13th Amendment, ending slavery; William Driver – nicknamed the U.S. flag "Old Glory" Francis Guess – Nashville businessman and member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights (1983–1989) [53] James Lawson – civil rights leader and Methodist minister
Martesha L. Johnson (2018) [25] First African American to serve as a Chief Public Defender for Metro Nashville, Davidson County and second woman. Rheubin Taylor: [26] First African American male to serve as the County Attorney for Hamilton County, Tennessee (1994) Gerald Webb: [27] First African American male judge in Hamilton County, Tennessee ...
The following notable deaths in the United States occurred in 2024.Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order as set out in WP:NAMESORT.A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth and subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, year of birth (if known), and reference.
C. Vernette Grimes: [2] First African American female to graduate from the Kent School of Law in Nashville (1939) [Davidson County, Tennessee] Martha Craig "Cissy" Daughtrey (1968): [13] First female lawyer in Nashville's U.S. Attorney's Office. She is also the first tenure-track female professor at Vanderbilt Law School. [Davidson County ...
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He settled in Nashville in 1884, where he became a well known minister and businessman. [3] In 1887 he conceived the idea of establishing a cemetery for African Americans on 37 acres (15 ha) of land near Buttermilk Ridge at Elm Hill Road. He purchased the land in 1887 for $30,000, and in 1888 he established Greenwood Cemetery.
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