Letter from Assistant Adjutant General W. T. Clarke from the War Department, Office of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Land, concerning the terms of returning the home of J. E. Bailey to its owner after the army used it as a hospital.
Broadside advertising a three-day fair to be staged at the Fayetteville Fairgrounds beginning October 10, 1872. This was to be the first annual fair of the Tennessee Colored Agricultural and Mechanical Association to be held in Fayetteville. ...
Broadside entitled "A Letter of Advice: To the Grand Order--the K.K. Klan-- throughout the U. States and Territories of America." The broadside was written by Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Broadsides; announcements; pancakes & waffles; sausages; coffee; fund raising
Broadside advertising an "Aunt Jemima Pancake and Tennessee Pride Sausage Supper" sponsored in support of Meharry Medical College by the Meharry Wives Club. Included is a list of the donors who supplied the food.
Transcription of the diary of John Duncan of the University of the South. The diary has been typed on carbon paper. The diary includes only the year 1868.
Letter from U.S. Secretary of State William Seward to Tennessee Governor William Brownlow instructing him to prevent any scheme encouraging freedmen to migrate to foreign countries.
Pages 15 through 24 of a pamphlet containing diary entries from Mrs. S. A. Martha Canfield with regard to the Memphis Colored Orphan Asylum that she founded. Mrs. Canfield observed the efforts of Rev. I. J. Hoile with the colored schools of the...
General view of a Memphis street along the river front reflects the hustle and bustle of commerce and the cotton industry as displayed in downtown along Front Street. Freedmen and their families are seen laboring and occupying the area.
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...
Three page extract of written questions posed to leaders and teachers assoicated with various benevolent societies working for the Freedmen Department.
