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Today's Black History fact: Frierson Office Building

2/26/2016

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The Frierson Office Building still stands! John Wesley Frierson was a successful black realtor and supporter of the civil rights events in Nashville. In 1954, John Wesley Frierson had a commercial building built on Jefferson Street to house the Nashville branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). To learn more about the Nashville’s local NAACP branch, visit NAACP.

For more pictures of the Nashville’s NAACP branch:

http://www.tennessean.com/picture-gallery/news/2014/01/29/naacp-in-nashville-a-history/5035185/

To learn more about John Wesley Frierson:

http://ww2.tnstate.edu/library/digital/frierson.htm
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