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- Title page of "Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading"
- Race relations
- Title page of "Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading" compiled by James T. Haley.
- Reconstruction and the African-American Legacy in Tennessee
- Memphis Race Riots testimony by Albert Harris
- Race riots
- Six pages of testimony by a black man named Albert Harris who witnessed the race riots that took place in Memphis (Tenn.) in May 1866. The testimony was presented to a U. S. congressional committee appointed to investigate the riots.
- Reconstruction and the African-American Legacy in Tennessee
- Memphis Race Riots testimony by Lavinia Goodell
- Race Riots
- Two pages of testimony by Lavinia Goodell, a black woman whose husband was killed duruing the 1866 race riots in Memphis (Tenn.). The testimony was presented to a U. S. congressional committee appointed to investigate the cause of the riots.
- Reconstruction and the African-American Legacy in Tennessee
- Harper's Weekly Memphis riot scenes
- Freedmen; Riots; Race riots; Race relations; Violence
- Race relations riot that occurred in Memphis in May of 1866. The black population of Memphis had swelled from 4,000 to over 15,000 by 1865. The volatile mix of former slaves or contraband, long-time freedmen of the Beale Street area, four regiments...
- Reconstruction and the African-American Legacy in Tennessee
- Memphis Colored Orphan Asylum
- Freedmen; Orphans; Orphanages; Refugees; Abandoned children; Children; Asylums; Street children
- Memphis Colored Orphan Asylum depicting the suffering faced by the black children and the destitute of Memphis.
- Reconstruction and the African-American Legacy in Tennessee
- Newell Ensley
- Men; Sketches
- Early etching of Newell Houston Ensley, a Professor of Rhetoric and Science at Howard and Alcorn Universities.
- Reconstruction and the African-American Legacy in Tennessee
- Tennessee pension application of ex-slave
- Pensions; Slavery
- Pension application of a former slave in Tennessee named Ben Davis. The information indicates that Davis was "given" to Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest as a personal servent during the Civil War.
- Reconstruction and the African-American Legacy in Tennessee
- Preston Taylor
- Men; Sketches
- Early etching of Preston Taylor, one of Nashville's most influential African American business and religious leaders.
- Reconstruction and the African-American Legacy in Tennessee
- I can pick de winner wid my two eyes shut
- Sheet music covers; Caricatures; African Americans; Blackface entertainers
- Cover shows a caricature drawing of an African American couple wearing formal clothing. The man is bowing and the woman is curtsying. At right is a tiered cake on a table with a sign reading "Dis cake will be given to de most graceful couple."...
- Rose Music Collection
- Raw recruits
- Sheet music covers; Caricatures; African Americans; Soldiers; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- Cover depicts caricatures of five African-American soldiers, three with bayonets, one playing a drum, and one holding a sign reading "Raw Recruits, Capt. Dan Bryant." They appear hapless and comically inept. They are lined up in front of tents in...
- Rose Music Collection
- Old Linden Colored School
- Education; Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; School buildings - Tennessee; African Americans - Tennessee; African Methodist Episcopal Church. Tennessee Conference.
- Front and side views of a wooden church building being used as a school. There is a large bell tower in front of the building. Two individuals are standing on steps.
- Early 20th Century Schoolhouses
- Old Adams Colored School
- Education; Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; School buildings - Tennessee
- Front and side views of a small clapboard structure with a center chimney. The schoolhouse is set on stone pillars.
- Early 20th Century Schoolhouses
- Cotton Ginning Time in Memphis, Tenn.
- Cotton; Cotton gins; Cotton industry; African Americans; Buildings; Carts & wagons; Mules
- Shows mules hauling wagons of cotton to gin. African American men driving the wagons. Postcard #37.
- Tennessee Postcard Collection
- On board U.S.S. Rumpler [sic Rambler] - ready for the subs
- World War, 1914-1918; Sailors; African Americans; Warships; Arms & armament; Naval warfare
- Unidentified seamen aboard the U.S.S. Rambler during convoy escort duty. The men are operating the ship's 3"/50 gun. The inscription on the photograph incorrectly identifies the ship as the U.S.S. Rumpler.
- Tennessee in World War I