Trial and triumph
Subtitle: essays in Tennessee's African American history
By: edited by Carroll Van West.
Contributors: West, Carroll Van, 1955-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press; Univ Tennessee Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
Subjects: African Americans -- Tennessee -- History.; Tennessee -- History.; Tennessee -- Race relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Black history on the Nashville frontier, 1780-1810 / Anita S. Goodstein; title: Blacks in pre-Civil War Memphis / Marius Carriere Jr.; title: Murder in Franklin : the mysteries of small-town slavery / Lisa C. Tolbert; title: They can never both prosper together : Black and white Baptists in antebellum Nashville / Mechal Sobel; title: Doctor Jack : a slave physician on the Tennessee frontier / Loren Schweninger; title: Slaves and masters in antebellum Madison County : slave life in rural West Tennessee / Gary Edwards; title: Archaeological study of slavery and plantation life in Tennessee / Larry McKee; title: Nashville's Fort Negley : a symbol of Blacks' involvement with the Union Army / Bobby Lovett; title: Fort Pillow, Forrest, and the United States Colored troops in 1864 / Kenneth B. Moore; title: Education of Blacks in Tennessee during reconstruction, 1865-1870 / Paul David Phillips; title: Origins of an African American school in Haywood County / Dorothy Granberry; title: Stand by the flag : nationalism and African American celebrations of the Fourth of July in Memphis, 1866-1887 / Brian D. Page; title: Every duty incumbent upon them : African American women in nineteenth-century Memphis / Beverly G. Bond; title: Duty of the hour : African American communities in Memphis, 1862-1923 / Kenneth W. Goings and Gerald L. Smith; title: Race relations and Tennessee centennials / Richard A. Couto; title: Nashville offers opportunity : the Nashville Globe and business as a means of uplift, 1907-1913 / Christopher M. Scribner; title: God bless you all; title: I am innocent : Sheriff Joseph F. Shipp, Chattanooga, and the lynching of Ed Johnson / Michael Webb; title: The very best influence : Josephine Holloway and girl scouting in Nashville's African American community / Elisabeth I. Perry; title: Few Black voices heard : the Black community and the 1956 desegregation crisis in Clinton / June N. Adamson; title: Darwin School and Black public education : Cookeville in the decade of the Brown decision / Wali R. Kharif; title: White lunch counters and Black consciousness : the story of the Knoxville sit-ins / Cynthia Griggs Fleming; title: Toward a perfect democracy : the struggle of African Americans in Fayette County to fulfill the unfulfilled right of the franchise / Linda T. Wynn.