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This historic plaque also honors the memory of two other lynching victims: his brother Henry Grizzard, and Samuel Smith of Nolensville, Tennessee, who was killed in relation to another incident. [10] The Grizzard brothers and Smith were three of the six blacks documented as lynched in Davidson County in the post-Reconstruction period. [11]
After the Civil War, of which Tennessee was a Confederate state, Tennessee enacted Jim Crow laws and held a separate, but equal mentality. [5] [6] The McIlherron family aggravated the local white community, as they had a reputation for not backing down to insults from whites. The family had become a bit more wealthy than their white neighbors.
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Bierfield and his African-American clerk, Lawrence Bowman, were confronted in Bierfield's store in Franklin, Tennessee, and fatally shot on August 15, 1868, by a group of masked men. The killers were believed to belong to a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan , which had emerged as an insurgent force in the state in 1866.
This list of museums in Tennessee encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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Cane Creek, Tennessee W. Martin Conder LDS Church Mob assassination 20 August 10, 1884 Cane Creek, Tennessee John Riley Hutson LDS Church Mob assassination 27 May 1898 Sanderson, Florida: George P. Canova LDS Church Shot and killed May 4, 1912 Diaz, Galeana, Chihuahua, Mexico James D. Harvey LDS Church Shot and killed 49 August 27, 1912
Following is a list of sites and structures in Tennessee that have been designated National Historic Landmarks. There are 31 National Historic Landmarks located entirely in the state, and one that includes elements in both Tennessee and Mississippi. All National Historic Landmarks are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.