NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — One girl’s e-book has impressed Nashville’s mayor to reopen a number of chilly circumstances from the Civil Rights period.
On Saturday, July 13, Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell joined Betsy Phillips to celebrate the release of her new book, “Dynamite Nashville,” which “accommodates revelations about unsolved bombings that occurred right here throughout the period of desegregation in Nashville.”
After the occasion, Mayor O’Connell introduced that he requested Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake to assign a member of the chilly case unit to function a lead investigator into three unsolved bombings from the Civil Rights period.
This e-book isn’t the final phrase on the bombings of Hattie Cotton Faculty in September 1957, the Nashville Jewish Neighborhood Heart in March 1958, and the house of Council Member Z. Alexander Looby in 1960. For 64 years, the query of who’s accountable for three bombings has gone unresolved. The e-book doesn’t have all of the solutions, however it may be the start of latest discovery and a brand new dialog.
Mayor Freddie O’Connell
Along with assigning an investigator to the chilly circumstances, Mayor O’Connell mentioned he additionally requested that Metro Division of Legislation work with the Metro Public Information Fee since data associated to the circumstances was misplaced because of the destruction of data over time.
The mayor mentioned he hopes their work gives “suggestions for enhancements in data retention so necessary data usually are not misplaced to future generations.”
