Jefferson Street (Nashville)

[1]36°10′29.51″N 86°47′7.53″W / 36.1748639°N 86.7854250°W / 36.1748639; -86.7854250 Jefferson Street is a street in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., which developed as the historic center of the city's African-American community. Three historically black universities are located near here: Fisk University, Meharry Medical College and Tennessee State University. In the 1940s-1960s, it attracted many rock and roll as well as rhythm and blues artists. It was a center for the Nashville sit-ins in the 1960s, but the construction of Interstate 40 across the street in 1968 led to its economic decline. Since 2011, Lorenzo Washington and his staff at the Jefferson Street Sound Museum, the neighborhood community music museum is conserving the [2] musical legacies of the 1940s through 1970s.

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  1. ^ I'll take you there : Nashville stories of place, power, and the struggle for social justice. Amie Thurber, Learotha, Jr. Williams. Nashville. 2021. ISBN 978-0-8265-0153-0. OCLC 1230249956.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. ^ McKenna, Brittney (December 8, 2016). "Lorenzo Washington on Preserving Nashville's Blues and R&B Epicenter". Retrieved March 31, 2021.
  3. ^ Thurber, Amie; Williams, Learotha, eds. (2021). I'll take you there: Nashville stories of place, power, and the struggle for social justice. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. ISBN 978-0-8265-0153-0.