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The Creative Destruction of Jefferson Street By Ronald W. Weathersby
Before 1920, the primary Black business district in Nashville was located along Charlotte Avenue. However, by the end of World War II, the commercial center of Black Nashville shifted to Jefferson Street near Fisk University and Meharry Medical College. According to historians, Jefferson Street began as a footpath that evolved into a thoroughfare. During the Union Army occupation of Nashville, Fort Gilliam was erected in North Nashville. In 1871 the Fisk Free Colored School purchased the Fort Gilliam site and constructed Jubilee Hall. After the turn of the century several Black businessmen formed the Abraham Lincoln Land Company and offered lots for sale in the Fisk University
Place subdivision. African American buyers paid five dollars down and five dollars a month to purchase a lot. In 1912 Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State Normal school was chartered and in 1915 Meharry Medical College became an independent institution. Hubbard Hospital, named after George W. Hubbard, one of the first faculty members, was built in 1917. Edward T. Kindall authors the book shown here on Jefferson street from the 1940’s to the 1970’s and is a must read by all Nashvillians. (See page 2A ) Thus the Jefferson Street corridor began its ascension to one of America’s most vibrant African American busiJefferson Street
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Churchwell Named to Lead New Fellows Society by Kathy Whitney
André Churchwell, M.D.
André Churchwell, M.D., associate dean of Diversity and associate professor of Medicine, Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, was named the first president of a newly formed cardiovascular fellows society by his alma mater, Emory University School of Medicine, where he completed his graduate medical education. André Churchwell, M.D. The J. Willis Hurst, R. Bruce Logue, and Nanette K. Wenger Cardiovascular Society was created to connect Emory cardiology alumni to each other and to current cardiology faculty. The group’s purpose is to provide networking oppor-
tunities for alumni, to promote alumni accomplishments and to encourage further investment and support of Emory cardiology’s mission. The society was named in honor of three Emory physicians who impacted the careers of generations of cardiologists, according to Emory’s Cardiology Alumni News. Churchwell graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in Biomedical Engineering and later graduated from Harvard Medical School. He completed his internship, residency and cardiology fellowship in Atlanta at Emory University, where, in 1984, he was the first African-American named as chief resident of medicine at Grady Memorial Hospital. After completing his training,
he joined the faculty at Emory, conducting basic research, seeing patients, teaching students, running the ECHO lab and creating and directing the office of minority affairs. All the while, he and other Emory and Georgia Tech faculty helped spearhead the creation of the Emory-Georgia Tech Biomedical Technology Research Center. He also received the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Minority Faculty Development award. The inaugural meeting of the society was held Jan. 25-26, in conjunction with the Atlanta Clinical Cardiology Update (CCU) Continuing Medical Education (CME) course.
Rev. James Lawson Jr. Papers to be Housed at Vanderbilt NASHVILLE, TN — The Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., who has played key roles in the Civil Rights Movement and Vanderbilt University’s history, has donated a significant portion of his papers to Vanderbilt Libraries’ Special Collections. “Vanderbilt is honored to serve as home to the archives of the Rev. James Lawson,” said Connie Vinita Dowell, dean of libraries. “This important collection reflects his contributions to the civil rights movement and his distinguished career as a prominent minister
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and teacher. The entirety of this collection will allow scholars to complete the portrait of his remarkable legacy.” Lawson, a Vanderbilt Distinguished Alumnus, taught on campus from 2006 to 2009 as a distinguished visiting professor. The James M. Lawson Jr. Chair at Vanderbilt was established in his honor in 2007. Learn more about Lawson’s historic role in the Movement and his time on campus in this video. “For decades I have expected the archival trail of my life’s journey would be located at Vanderbilt,” Lawson said. “In spite of certain events of the 1960s, Vanderbilt’s vision and I have never broken step. I am delighted that Vanderbilt
can now announce that the Lawson Papers are there. In the light of the “Great Movement” that happened in Nashville, I hope that Vanderbilt will become a major center for the study of the non-violent direct action campaigns of 1953-1980 and the moral and social earthquake those campaigns caused.” Lawson joins several other important figures in the civil rights movement who have donated or committed their historic papers to Vanderbilt Special Collections. The Rev. Kelly Miller Smith Sr., assistant dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School from 1968 to 1984, helped organize the NashLawson
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Seaside Park Pays Out $2.5M in Civil Rights Lawsuit SEASIDE PARK, NJ —Seaside Park has settled with Stephen D’Onofrio, the former owner of the Sawmill Café, for $2.5 million. The settlement from the borough’s insurer is believed to be the single largest payout of its kind on record for this small shore community. The 160-page civil rights complaint, filed by Philip Davolos of the law firm Chance and McCann of Bridgeton, de-
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tailed D’Onofrio’s claim involving more than 50 town-wide defendants including police, building and borough officials. “This case is a reminder that there are indeed consequences for the abuse of power by local governments. This is an excellent result for our client, which is what we always strive for,” Davolos said. Court papers detail how borough officials inappropriately interfered with
D’Onofrio’s operation in order to prevent “Black Bands” from performing at the Sawmill Café’s second floor “Green Room” from 2004 till 2009. The combined action of the defendants was commonly referred to in Seaside Park as “The Program.” On April 13, 2004, the Sawmill Café hosted an African-American hip hop per-
Longtime TSU Nursing Professor Remembered
He is the Executive Director and Chief Medical Officer at Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute and a member of the American Heart Association’s Greater Southeast board of directors. Dr. Churchwell was interviewed by Tribune radio personality Deniece Barnes. They discussed heart disease and risk factors for African Americans, heart attack symptoms, stroke symptoms and reducing the risks. You can see the interview www. tntribune.com Dr. Verla Marie Williams Vaughan
NASHVILLE (TSU News Service) - Colleagues and former students of Dr. Verla Marie Williams Vaughan are remembering the longtime educator and administrator as an excellent role model, scholar, mentor and a very caring person who pushed her students to achieve at their
highest potential. Vaughan, a tenured professor of Nursing, who died Feb. 24 at age 64, taught at Tennessee State University for more than 36 years over which time she developed a reputation for being devoted to her Vaughan
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