Jefferson Street (Nashville)
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[1]36°10′29.51″N 86°47′7.53″W Jefferson Street is a street in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., which developed as the historic center of the city's African-American community. Three historically black universities are located near here: Fisk University, Meharry Medical College and Tennessee State University. In the 1940s-1960s, it attracted many rock and roll as well as rhythm and blues artists. It was a center for the Nashville sit-ins in the 1960s, but the construction of Interstate 40 across the street in 1968 led to its economic decline. Since 2013, Lorenzo Washington and his staff at the Jefferson Street Sound, formerly Club Baron, the sole preserved neighborhood club,[2] run walking tours and programs interpreting the music history of the 1940s through 1960s.[3]