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"A history of Tennessee's African American lodges and their cemeteries"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gardner, Leigh Ann (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
1800-1999
African American fraternal organizations > Tennessee > History > 19th century.
African American fraternal organizations > Tennessee > History > 20th century.
African American cemeteries > Tennessee.
African Americans > Tennessee > Social life and customs.
African Americans > Segregation > Tennessee.
Sociétés d'aide mutuelle noires américaines > Tennessee > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Sociétés d'aide mutuelle noires américaines > Tennessee > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Cimetières noirs américains > Tennessee.
Noirs américains > Tennessee > Mœurs et coutumes.
Noirs américains > Ségrégation > Tennessee.
African Americans > Social life and customs
African Americans > Segregation
African American fraternal organizations
African American cemeteries
Tennessee
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A time of change: Tennessee between 1865 and 1930
  • The rise of fraternalism
  • Lodge cemeteries in Tennessee
  • Importance of fraternalism and benevolence in the African American community
  • The importance of funerals and cemeteries in fraternalism
  • Remembering the dead: commemoration in lodge cemeteries
  • Segregated landscapes
  • The silences of the lodge cemeteries: "unmarked" graves and hiding in plain sight
  • The persistence of lodges and lodge cemeteries.

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