{"id":1284,"date":"2018-06-15T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/universityfundingprograms\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2018-05-29T11:11:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T16:11:20","slug":"students-from-university-course-historic-black-nashville-visit-tennessee-state-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/universityfundingprograms\/2018\/06\/students-from-university-course-historic-black-nashville-visit-tennessee-state-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Students from University Course \u2018Historic Black Nashville\u2019 Visit Tennessee State Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University Course <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/strategicplan\/undergraduate-residential-education\/universitycourses-2016-17\/historic_black_nashville.php\">\u2018Historic Black Nashville\u2019<\/a> was offered for the second time during the spring 2018 semester. To chronicle some of the highlights of the course, several students authored blogs reflecting on site visits the class took during the semester. Over the next few weeks, these blogs will be published on the VU BreakThru webpage.<\/p>\n<p>This featured blog\u00a0focuses on the class visit to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sos.tn.gov\/tsla\">Tennessee State Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Written by Destiny Hanks<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1265\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2261\/2018\/05\/TN-State-Library_1.png\" alt=\"TN State Library_1\" width=\"250\" height=\"175\" \/>I felt like a real historian being able to touch archives with gloves. The librarian was able to pull significant documents related to Tennessee\u2019s history for our class, and we used the skills that we learned in the classroom to read 19th century handwriting. We struggled to figure out what the author was saying at first. However, once we got the hang of the shape of the author\u2019s letters, we deciphered the meaning of various texts. We were exposed to documents that described things like a murder near a black church, a lynching by the river and a record of slaves who word on Nashville\u2019s local railroads.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1264\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2261\/2018\/05\/TN-State-Archives_3.png\" alt=\"TN State Archives_3\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My favorite thing that we found was related to the Ida B. Wells case as we were able to examine the court testimonies. It was interesting to read about Ida B. Wells\u2019 encounter on a street car line as well as other testimonies of the situation. The people that were interviewed were listed by name and some by occupation. There were several preachers who were on the street car line. There was even a testimony from the conductor. The document was easy to read, but we had to use a mini spatula along with gloves to flip the pages of the book. Along with one of my classmates, we breezed through a majority of the court document. It was a fascinating experience, and I would love to return one day to learn more about other important documents that are held within the walls of the Tennessee State Archive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University Course \u2018Historic Black Nashville\u2019 was offered for the second time during the spring 2018 semester. To chronicle some of the highlights of the course, several students authored blogs reflecting on site visits the class took during the semester. 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