Among America's 100 most populous cities, Nashville lands in the bottom half when it comes to the quality of its park system.

Nashville was originally home to five Historically ... Taylor also created Greenwood Park, which was the first park for the African American community. The park was across from the cemetery ...

She died a year later, before Nashville's civil rights movement of the 1960s took hold. She was buried in Greenwood Cemetery on Elm Hill Park, and her legacy remained. In 2016, Pierce was ...

Greenwood Park, Nashville's first park for African-Americans, opened the same year as the streetcar boycotts in 1905. Considering that Preston Taylor, one of the founders of the Union ...

the second oldest cemetery for blacks in Nashville. It was established in 1888, and Greenwood Park, the first amusement park in Nashville open to black patrons, followed in 1905. Both were founded ...