Description: The widespread controversy that rocked Nashville in 1960 after a famous civil rights leader was expelled from Vanderbilt University Divinity School
Brief description: Benjamin Houston is a senior lecturer in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. His specializations include twentieth-century US history, the Black freedom struggle, and oral history. He is the author of The Nashville Way: Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City.
Review Quotes:
"This era powerfully reminds us that few fights are permanently won, that moral consensus is incredibly difficult to achieve, and that lessons of history can be broadly appreciated without being fully learned."
--Freddie O'Connell, Mayor, Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County