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To Care for the Sick and Bury the Dead : African American Lodges and Cemeteries in Tennessee /

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

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Gardner, Leigh Ann (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2022]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.