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Posted by: Paul Burch on Dec 28, 2023

Civil rights activist King Madison Hollands, a leader in the 1960s Nashville Student Movement to racially integrate the region, died Dec. 20 reports the Tennessee Lookout. Hollands was 82. Hollands among the first 14 Black students to attend Father Ryan High School in 1954 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education declared racial segregation in schools unconstitutional. Hollands' later campaigned for improvements to the Edgehill neighborhood where he grew up and worked to preserve African American history in Nashville. Memorial service information has not yet been announced.