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About the Book

Before there were guidebooks there were just guides--people in the community you could count on to show you around.

I'll Take You There is written by and with the people who most intimately know Nashville, foregrounding the struggles and achievements of people's movements towards social justice. The colloquial use of 'I'll take you there' has long been a response to the call of a stranger: for recommendations of safe passage through unfamiliar territory, a decent meal and place to lay one's head, or perhaps a watering hole or juke joint.

In the pages that follow, more than 100 Nashvillians 'take us there,' guiding us to places we might not otherwise encounter. Their collective entries bear witness to the ways that power has been used by social, political, and economic elites to tell or omit certain stories, while celebrating the power of counter-narratives as a tool to resist injustice. Indeed, each entry is simultaneously a story about place, power, and the historic and ongoing struggle toward a more just city for all. We hope the result is akin to the experience of arriving in an unfamiliar place asking directions, and rather than simply getting pointed in the right direction, receiving a warm offer from a local to lead us on, accompanied by a tale or two.

Table of Contents:

  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Downtown
  • 1. Nunna-daul-Tsuny (Trail Where They Cried)
  • 2. The Public Square
  • 3. Maxwell House Hotel
  • 4. Juanita's
  • 5. Ryman Auditorium
  • 6. Tara Cole Memorial Bench
  • 7. Black Bottom (Country Music Hall of Fame)
  • 8. Downtown Incinerator/Ascend Amphitheatre
  • 9. Tent City/2010 Flood
  • 10. James Robertson Apartments
  • 11. Nashville Public Library Civil Rights Room
  • 12. Walgreens Lunch Counter
  • 13. Tennessee State Capitol
  • 14. The Hermitage Hotel
  • 15. Legislative Plaza
  • 16. Music City Central Bus Station Bathroom
  • 17. The Nashville Globe
  • 18. Duncan Hotel
  • 19. The Nashville Farmer's Market
  • 20. First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill
  • Chapter 3: Northwest
  • 21. Gateway to Heritage/440
  • 22. American Baptist College
  • 23. Clark Memorial Methodist Church
  • 24. Fisk University
  • 25. Jubilee Hall
  • 26. Tennessee State University
  • 27. Hadley Park
  • 28. Meharry Medical College
  • 29. Nashville Greenlands
  • 30. Pearl High School
  • 31. Planned Parenthood
  • 32. The Original Tennessee State Penitentiary
  • 33. William Edmondson Park
  • 34. John Henry Hale Apartments
  • 35. Z. Alexander Looby's home
  • 36. Bordeaux Landfill
  • 37. Southern Publishing Association
  • 38. Beaman Park/Bells Bend
  • Chapter 4: Northeast
  • 39. John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge
  • 40. Greenwood Cemetery
  • 41. Edgefield House
  • 42. Sunday Night Soul at the 5 Spot
  • 43. QDP
  • 44. Hattie Cotton Elementary
  • 45. First Baptist Church of East Nashville
  • 46. Winfrey's Barber Shop
  • 47. Stratford High School
  • 48. Cornelia Fort Park
  • 49. U.S. Colored Troops National Monument
  • 50. Mansker Station
  • 51. Gass's Store/Cinco de Mayo Mexican Restaurant
  • Chapter 5: Southeast
  • 52. Nashville International Airport
  • 53. The Camps of St. Cloud Hill
  • 54. Wilson Park
  • 55. Nashville Fairgrounds
  • 56. Casa AzafrÁn
  • 57. Clairmont Apartments
  • 58. The Buddhist Temple
  • 59. La Hacienda Taqueria y Super Mercado
  • 60. Workers' Dignity
  • 61. Global Mall at the Crossings
  • 62. Hands-On-Nashville Urban Farm
  • 63. Salahadeen Center
  • 64. Nashville Zoo at Grassmere
  • Chapter 6: Southwest
  • 65. Capers Memorial CME Church
  • 66. Local 257 American Federation of Musicians
  • 67. Nashville Songwriters Association International
  • 68. Music Row/Quonset Hut
  • 69. Edgehill United Methodist Church
  • 70. Edgehill Village
  • 71. Scarritt Bennett Center
  • 72. Roger Williams University
  • 73. Vanderbilt Divinity School
  • 74. Confederate Memorial Hall
  • 75. Memorial Gymnasium
  • 76. Vanderbilt Kirkland Hall/Occupy Vanderbilt
  • 77. Centennial Park
  • 78. The Parthenon
  • 79. Fannie Mae Dees Park
  • 80. International Market & Restaurant
  • 81. Carver Food Park
  • 82. CCA/CoreCivic
  • 83. Glendale Baptist Church
  • 84. Radnor Lake
  • 85. Gordon Jewish Community Center
  • 86. Aaittafama' Archeological Park
  • Chapter 7: On the Road
  • 87. Promise Land
  • 88. Wessyngton Plantation
  • 89. Coal Creek Miners Museum
  • 90. Highlander Research and Education Center
  • 91. Islamic Center of Murfreesboro
  • 92. The Town of Old Jefferson
  • 93. The Farm
  • 94. Giles County Trail of Tears Interpretive Center
  • 95. Walnut Street Bridge, Chattanooga
  • 96. Mound Bottom
  • 97. Fayette County Courthouse
  • Chapter 8: Thematic Tours
  • It City
  • Athens of the South
  • Music City
  • Southern Hospitality
  • Recommended Reading


About the Author :
Amie Thurber is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work at Portland State University. She received her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in Community Research and Action in 2018.

Learotha Williams, Jr. is a scholar of African American, Civil War and Reconstruction, and Public History at Tennessee State University.  Williams has worked as a Historic Sites Specialist for the State of Florida, acted as coordinator for the African American Studies Program at Armstrong Atlantic State University, and served as trustee of the Historic Savannah Foundation in Savannah, Georgia. He also spearheads the North Nashville Heritage Project, an effort that seeks to encourage a greater understanding of the history of North Nashville, including but not limited to Jefferson Street and its historic relationship to the greater Nashville community.

Review :
“A guide to the Nashville you may not have been taught about in schools, I'll Take You There provides a thorough indexing of the city through the lenses of history, social justice and the struggles for racial and economic equality." - Steve Haruch, editor of Greetings from New Nashville: How a Sleepy Southern Town Became "It" City and People only Die of Love in Movies: Film Writing by Jim Ridley


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780826501530
  • Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Vanderbilt University Press
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 222
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 575 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0826501532
  • Publisher Date: 15 May 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Exploring Nashville's Social Justice Sites
  • Width: 195 mm


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