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Pulaski riot (741 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Pulaski riot was a race riot that occurred in Pulaski, Tennessee, on January 7, 1868. While the riot appeared to be based in a trade dispute of the

Memphis Free Speech (419 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Memphis Free Speech was an African American newspaper founded in 1881 in Memphis, Tennessee, by the Reverend Taylor Nightingale, based at the Beale

Barack Obama assassination plot in Tennessee (3,254 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

skinheads—spoke of killing Obama during a planned murder spree of 88 African Americans in Tennessee (in reference to the Nazi slogan Heil Hitler), 14 of whom were

Lynching of Alfred Blount (646 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

On February 9, 1893, Alfred Blount, an African American and a Chattanooga native, was taken from his jail cell in the county jail and brutally beaten,

Lynching of Joseph Upchurch (349 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Joseph Upchurch was an African-American man who was lynched by a mob near Paris, Tennessee, on June 17, 1927. According to the Memphis Evening Appeal,

Lynching of Jim Taylor (332 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jim Taylor was an African-American man who was lynched on April 30, 1891, in Franklin, Tennessee. Jim Taylor was an African American man who lived and

Lynching of Thomas Williams (120 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Thomas Williams was an African-American man who was lynched by a mob in Memphis, Tennessee, on September 28, 1927. John R. Steelman, who wrote his PhD

Lynching of David Jones (581 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

David Jones was an African-American man who was lynched in Nashville, Tennessee on March 25, 1872, after being arrested as a suspect in a killing. He was

Lynching of Ballie Crutchfield (554 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

On March 15, 1901, an African American woman named Ballie Crutchfield was lynched by a white mob in Rome, Tennessee. The mob had tried to murder her brother

Erwin, Tennessee (2,567 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Erwin is a town in and the county seat of Unicoi County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 6,083 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Johnson

Lynching of Eliza Woods (285 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Eliza Woods was an African-American woman who was lynched on 19 August 1886 in Jackson, Tennessee, after being accused of poisoning and killing her employer

Lynching of Jo Reed (699 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jo Reed was an African American man who was lynched in Nashville, Tennessee, on April 30, 1875, where he was taken by a white mob from the county jail

Lynching of Samuel Smith (821 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Samuel Smith was a 15-year-old African-American youth who was lynched by a white mob, hanged and shot in Nolensville, Tennessee, on December 15, 1924.

Lynching of Amos Miller (633 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Amos Miller was a 23-year-old African-American man who was lynched from the balcony of the Williamson County Courthouse in Franklin, Tennessee, on August

Lynching of Samuel Bierfield and Lawrence Bowman (1,099 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Samuel A. Bierfield (died August 15, 1868) is believed to be the first Jew lynched in the United States. Bierfield and his African-American clerk, Lawrence

Lynching of Cordie Cheek (1,013 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

James Cordie Cheek (1916 – December 15, 1933) was a 17-year-old African-American youth who was lynched by a white mob in Maury County, Tennessee near the

Elbert Williams (1,421 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Elbert Williams (October 15, 1908 – June 20, 1940) was an African-American civil rights leader from Brownsville, Tennessee who was killed by unknown persons

Lynching of Ephraim Grizzard (1,482 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ephraim Grizzard and Henry Grizzard were African-American brothers who were lynched in Middle Tennessee in April 1892 as suspects in the assaults on two

Lynching of Jim McIlherron (1,543 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jim McIlherron was an African-American man who was tortured and executed by a lynch mob on February 12, 1918, in Estill Springs, Tennessee. McIlherron

Lation Scott (1,400 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lation (Ligon) Scott (December 25, 1893 – December 2, 1917) was an African American lynching victim suspected of raping a white woman in Dyer County, Tennessee

Joseph Paul Franklin (3,229 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Joseph Paul Franklin (born James Clayton Vaughn Jr.; April 13, 1950 – November 20, 2013) was an American serial killer and white supremacist who engaged

People's Grocery lynchings (2,526 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The People's Grocery lynchings of 1892 occurred on March 9, 1892, in Memphis, Tennessee, when black grocery owner Thomas Moss and two of his workers, Will

Knoxville riot of 1919 (2,540 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Knoxville riot of 1919 was a race riot that took place in the American city of Knoxville, Tennessee, on August 30–31, 1919. The riot began when a lynch

Lynching of Ed Johnson (2,698 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

On March 19, 1906, Ed Johnson, a young African American man, was murdered by a lynch mob in his home town of Chattanooga, Tennessee. He had been sentenced

Memphis massacre of 1866 (5,014 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Memphis massacre of 1866 was a rebellion with a series of violent events that occurred from May 1 to 3, 1866, in Memphis, Tennessee. The racial violence

Hattie Cotton Elementary School bombing (973 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Hattie Cotton Elementary School bombing on September 10, 1957, was a destructive bombing by pro-segregationists of an elementary school in Nashville

Lynching of Ell Persons (4,334 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ell Persons was a black man who was lynched on 22 May 1917, after he was accused of having raped and decapitated a 15-year-old white girl, Antoinette Rappel

Frances Thompson (2,417 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Frances Thompson (c. 1840 – 1876) was an American, formerly enslaved Black trans woman and anti-rape activist. She was one of the five Black women to testify

Walden University (Tennessee) (1,039 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Bobby L. Lovett, "Walden University (1868-1925)" A Profile of African Americans in Tennessee History, Nashville: Tennessee State University Smith, John Abernathy

George Mahan Jr. (472 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Houses and were among those mandated for rural schools for African Americans in Tennessee. Mahan was a member of the American Institute of Architects

Murder of Kerrick Majors (4,433 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

On April 26, 1987, Kerrick Majors, a 14-year-old African-American boy, was tortured and murdered by three white drifters during a racially motivated hate

Lynching of Henry Choate (607 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Henry Choate was an 18-year-old African-American teenager who was lynched by a mob in Columbia, Tennessee, on November 13, 1927. Choate was accused of

Columbia race riot of 1946 (604 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

On the night of February 26–27, 1946, a disturbance known as the Columbia Race Riot took place in Columbia, the county seat of Maury County, Tennessee

R. H. Boyd (2,467 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Archived March 15, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, in A Profile of African Americans in Tennessee History, 1995; retrieved from Tennessee State University website

James Raymond Lawson (691 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Crystal A. "JAMES RAYMOND LAWSON (1915–1996)" (PDF). Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee. Tennessee State University. Retrieved December 9, 2017. Mickens

Trevecca Nazarene University (2,120 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bobby L. Lovett, "Walden University (1868-1925)", A Profile of African Americans in Tennessee History, Nashville: Tennessee State University, 1995. "History"

Green Polonius Hamilton (255 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hamilton". In Lovett, Bobby L.; Wynn, Linda T. (eds.). Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee. Nashville: Annual Local Conference on Afro-American Culture

William H. Hastie (1,883 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Linda T. Wynn; Gayle Brinkley-Johnson (eds.). A Profile of African Americans in Tennessee History. Annual Local Conference on Afro-American Culture and

1902 in the United States (2,108 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(1996). "Arnaud Wendell Bontemps (1902-1973)". Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee. Annual Local Conference on Afro-American Culture and History

Emma Rochelle Wheeler (752 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Retrieved 9 October 2014. Wynn, Linda (1996). Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee. Nashville, TN: Annual Local Conference on Afro-American Culture

Arna Bontemps (2,755 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(1996). "Arnaud Wendell Bontemps (1902-1973)". Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee. Annual Local Conference on Afro-American Culture and History

Austin-East High School (2,181 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Robert J. Booker, Austin High School (1879-1968), A Profile of African Americans in Tennessee History, Tennessee State University website, accessed April

Coal Creek War (3,646 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Codes official enactment in 1865, the prison population of African Americans in Tennessee jumped from 52% to 75%. This mass incarceration of ex-enslaved

Henry Alvin Cameron (859 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Chicago 1915. Reprint. Detroit: Gale Research, 1976 "Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee". "Cameron Middle School". Archived from the original on 2011-09-11

Chattanooga Observer (333 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ROBINSON (1893-1968)". In Lovett, Bobby L. (ed.). A Profile of African Americans in Tennessee History. Tennessee State University Library. Retrieved 2022-07-19

Jackie Shane (3,317 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lovett, Bobby; Wynn, Linda; Eller, Caroline (2021). Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee (PDF) (2nd ed.). Nashville: Nashville Conference on African

Robert Emmitt Lillard (845 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Tennessee State University Library Digital Collection – Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee. Administrative Office of the Courts (Tennessee). “Tennessee’s

List of African American poets (905 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(1996). "Arnaud Wendell Bontemps (1902-1973)". Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee. Annual Local Conference on Afro-American Culture and History

List of University of Michigan alumni (24,076 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Crystal A. "JAMES RAYMOND LAWSON (1915-1996)" (PDF). Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee. Tennessee State University. Archived (PDF) from the original