The Nashville Globe was a black-owned and operated paper serving the African-American community in Nashville, Tennessee. It was first published in 1906 during the boycott that followed segregation law imposed on the city's streetcars. The paper was housed in the R.H. Boyd Building in a part of town that was vibrant with African-American entrepreneurial activity. The Nashville Globe was financed by who was secretary of the National Baptist Publishing Board. Following R.H. Boyd's death in 1922, his son, Henry A. Boyd, took over as the paper's editor. The editors of the Globe, Henry A. Boyd and Joseph O. Battle, used the paper to encourage the support of black-owned businesses in Nashville, to speak out against racial segregation and injustice, and to advance African American education.