As Black History Month begins, Nashville Sites, a free, interactive, location-based online storytelling platform, is spotlighting a robust collection of tours that honor, preserve, and amplify the rich Black history and cultural legacy of Nashville.
Throughout February—and all year long—Nashville Sites offers immersive, self-guided experiences that explore pivotal moments, influential leaders, and historic neighborhoods central to the city’s Black heritage. Featured tours include in-depth explorations of the Nashville Civil Rights Movement and the Civil Rights Sit-ins, as well as tours highlighting early Black life and culture and the historic Edgehill neighborhood.
Designed to educate and engage users of all ages, the tours are available through Nashville Sites’ interactive online platform, allowing participants to explore the city’s history at their own pace while standing in the very places where history unfolded.
Additional Black history and culture tours on the Nashville Sites platform include a a tour of Fort Negley, a Jefferson Street driving tour, the McKissack family and Black architecture driving tour, a tour on North Nashville leadership, a tour honoring Tennessee State University — one of the city’s historically Black universities — and Women’s History Highlights. The latter features stories of social reform, suffrage, and civil rights, underscoring the vital role Black women played in shaping Nashville’s past.
“Nashville’s story cannot be told without honoring the contributions, resilience and leadership of its Black community,” Nashville Sites said in a statement. “These tours are designed to make that history accessible, meaningful and present-day relevant.”
Nashville Sites continues to expand its catalog of tours celebrating the city’s diverse voices and histories, offering residents and visitors alike new ways to connect with Nashville’s past.
About Nashville Sites
Nashville Sites is a free interactive, location-based storytelling platform that brings the city’s history to life through curated walking and driving tours. Featuring professionally researched narration, historic images and on-site storytelling, Nashville Sites highlights the people, places and events that shaped Nashville’s past and present. The platform offers tours in multiple languages and covers a wide range of topics, including civil rights, music, architecture, neighborhoods and cultural history.
For more information or to explore available tours, visit Nashville Sites at www.nashvillesites.org
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