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Pages in category "African-American history in Nashville, Tennessee" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Upon returning to Tennessee in 1849, James and Sarah Polk went to his mother's home in Columbia before returning to Nashville two weeks later, when Polk Place was finished. It was the President's final residence, where he died of cholera at age 53, only three months after leaving office. He had lived in the home for between thirty and fifty days.
Caroline "Carrie" Winder McGavock (née Winder; September 9, 1829 – February 22, 1905) was an American slave owner and the caretaker of the McGavock Confederate Cemetery at Carnton, a historic plantation complex in Franklin, Tennessee. [1] [2] Her life was the subject of a 2005 best-selling novel by Robert Hicks, entitled The Widow of the South.
Formed by the merger of the Nashville Globe and Nashville Independent. [84] Nashville: The Nashville Globe: 1906 [86] 1930s [86] Weekly [86] LCCN 2014218453, sn86064259; OCLC 13744970, 881287661; ISSN 2373-4892, 2373-4906; Free online archive; Merged with the Nashville Independent to form the Nashville Globe and Independent. [86] Nashville: The ...
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 ...
African-American history in Nashville, Tennessee (3 C, 23 P) A. African-American people in Tennessee politics (1 C, 13 P) Anti-black racism in Tennessee (1 C, 5 P) C.