When Mayes Waters was just a kid growing up in Brentwood, the community was quite different from the upscale suburban area it is today.
"I lived in Brentwood on Hardscuffle Road from the time I was 4 until the late '60s," Waters recalls. "Hardscuffle was the corridor that's now East Church Street from Franklin Pike to Edmondson Pike. At the time I lived there, there were maybe 50 African-American families on both sides of the road."
After Interstate 65 came through, the Hardscuffle community...
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