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

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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gardner, Leigh Ann (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
African Americans > Social life and customs.
African Americans > Segregation.
African American fraternal organizations.
African American cemeteries.
African Americans > Segregation > Tennessee.
African Americans > Tennessee > Social life and customs.
African American cemeteries > Tennessee.
African American fraternal organizations > Tennessee > History > 20th century.
African American fraternal organizations > Tennessee > History > 19th century.
Tennessee.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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