Afterlives of Fort Negley with Connie Lopez-Fink

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Bass Street Community, Not Forgotten: Teaching Middle Schoolers about Fort Negley’s Reconstruction-era Neighborhood
Connie Lopez-Fink Middle School Educator, University School of Nashville

Join us in person at the Fort Negley Visitors Center or virtually via Zoom.

In celebration of the launch of the Builders and Defenders Database Vanderbilt University, Friends of Fort Negley Park, and Metro Parks present: Afterlives of Fort Negley

This series of talks focuses on the histories of Fort Negley from Reconstruction to the present day. Come hear from local community experts just some of what Fort Negley’s builders and defenders made possible, and why this history is more relevant than ever.

This lecture series and the Builders and Defenders Database made possible by generous grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Park Service.