Kicha's photos with the keyword: Nashville, TN

Group photo of eight unknown female students posing on the lawn of the Fisk University campus, Nashville, Tennessee, ca 1915. Arthur P Bedou, Photographer Fisk University was founded in 1866, shortly after the end of the Civil War, Fisk University is a historically black university, and is the oldest institution of higher learning in Nashville, Tennessee.

This was around the time Ms. Baker gave a talk at Fisk University, a historically black college in Nashville, Tennessee, on "France, North Africa And The Equality Of The Races In France". Here Josephine Baker chats with students from Fisk University, a historically Black college in Nashville, Tennessee, where she gave a speech on race and equality. Josephine Baker was seen as a threat by the United States. The FBI kept a file on her, and the State Department collected data on her activities, using the information to dissuade other countries from allowing her to perform. She was seen as a threat because she used her international prominence to call attention to the discriminatory racial practices of the United States. The United States government could not restrict her travel by withdrawing her passport because she carried the passport of her adopted nation, France. Josephine Baker, Racial Protest, and the Cold War by Mary L. Dudziak; Josephine: The Hungry Heart by Jean-Claude Baker and Chris Chase.

Lovely portrait of an African American woman identified as Josie Wagoner. Calvert Brothers Studio, Nashville, Tennessee; Tennessee State Library and Archives

Beautiful portrait of an unknown African American young woman. Photographed at Mahon & Taylor photographic studio in Nashville, Tennessee. Special Collections/ University Archives Department, Virginia State University