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TSU Homecoming Parade
Nashville, TN · Arts & Culture
- When
- October 17, 2026
- Where
- Jefferson Street · Nashville · TN
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
Tennessee State University's homecoming parade runs down historic Jefferson Street in North Nashville each fall, drawing marching bands, dance teams, sororities and fraternities and hundreds of spectators. It is the public, free cultural centerpiece of TSU's homecoming week, distinct from the football game itself.
The history within reach
- TSU Homecoming Paradesame spot
Tennessee State University's homecoming parade runs down historic Jefferson Street in North Nashville each fall, drawing marching bands, dance teams, sororities and fraternities and hundreds of spectators.
Dynamite destroyed the house of the lawyer defending the arrested sit-in students.
Founded by a salt merchant who had been helped by a Black family after a wagon accident and never forgot it, Meharry became the largest private historically Black institution training doctors and dentists in America.
Fisk was nearly broke when its student singers went on tour to raise money, and what they brought back paid for this building, the first permanent structure in the country built for the education of Black students.
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.