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Nashville MLK Day March & Convocation
Nashville, TN · Holiday
- When
- January 18, 2027
- Where
- Jefferson Street Missionary Baptist Church to TSU Gentry Center · Nashville · TN
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
Nashville's official MLK Day observance, organized by the Interdenominational Ministers Fellowship since 1989. Participants march the length of historic Jefferson Street before a youth rally and convocation at Tennessee State University's Gentry Center.
The history within reach
Nashville's official MLK Day observance, organized by the Interdenominational Ministers Fellowship since 1989.
A divinity student who had studied Gandhi's methods in India ran weekly workshops in a church basement, drilling students in how to be spat on, burned with cigarettes and dragged from a stool without responding.
Georgia O'Keeffe gave a historically Black university 101 works from Alfred Stieglitz's estate, her own paintings plus Picasso, Cézanne, Renoir and Diego Rivera, on condition the collection never be broken up.
Fisk University, Nashville's first university and a historically Black institution in North Nashville, holds a homecoming week each fall built around a royal coronation, a parade and campus wide festivities.
Students at a school for freed people toured to save it from closure, singing spirituals to audiences who had never heard them performed as concert music.