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Davidson County, whose principal city is the state capital of Nashville, Tennessee, was home from 1800 to 1850 to the largest share of African Americans in the state, in part because it was settled before the western part and numerous planters held slaves in Middle Tennessee. Since 1860, Shelby County (where Memphis is located) has had the ...
A second marker will be installed downtown to recognize David Jones and Jo Reed, black men who were lynched during Reconstruction, in 1872 and 1875, respectively. The year 1877 marked the withdrawal of federal troops from the South at the end of the Reconstruction era and a rise in violence of whites against blacks into the early 20th century. [13]
Historically black universities and colleges in Tennessee (7 C, 13 P) Historically segregated African-American schools in Tennessee (1 C, 21 P) History of slavery in Tennessee (1 C, 20 P)
This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in Tennessee. It includes both current and historical newspapers. More than 100 such papers have been published in Tennessee. [1] The first was The Colored Tennessean, first published in Nashville on April 29, 1865. [2]
William Bennett Scott Sr. (died 1885) was a pioneering newspaper founder and publisher, mayor, and civil rights campaigner who helped found Freedman’s Normal Institute in Maryville, Tennessee. [1] [2] He was the first African American to run a newspaper in Tennessee and had the only newspaper in Blount County, Tennessee for 10 years. [1]
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, in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. He was arrested and was awaiting trial when he was captured by a lynch party, who burned him alive and scattered his remains around town, throwing his ...
Joyce Watkins is the first Black woman to be exonerated in Tennessee history. A 74-year-old Nashville woman and her late boyfriend have been exonerated for the rape and murder of her great-niece ...
The Memphis massacre of 1866 [1] was a rebellion with a series of violent events that occurred from May 1 to 3, 1866, in Memphis, Tennessee.The racial violence was ignited by political and social racism following the American Civil War, in the early stages of Reconstruction. [2]