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Category : Memphis (Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1580
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Polk's Memphis (Tennessee) City Directory
Author: R.L. Polk & Co.'s Memphis City Directory
Author: R.L. Polk & CoPublisher:
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Category : Memphis (Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1398
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To Care for the Sick and Bury the Dead
Author: Leigh Ann GardnerPublisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826502547
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Benevolent Orders, the Sons of Ham, Prince Hall Freemasons—these and other African American lodges created a social safety net for members across Tennessee. During their heyday between 1865 and 1930, these groups provided members with numerous resources, such as sick benefits and assurance of a proper burial, opportunities for socialization and leadership, and the chance to work with local churches and schools to create better communities. Many of these groups gradually faded from existence, but their legacy endures in the form of the cemeteries the lodges left behind. These Black cemeteries dot the Tennessee landscape, but few know their history or the societies of care they represent. To Care for the Sick and Bury the Dead is the first book-length look at these cemeteries and the lodges that fostered them. This book is a must-have for genealogists, historians, and family members of the people buried in these cemeteries.
R. L. Polk & Co.'s Marquette City and County Directory
Author: R.L. Polk & CoPublisher:
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Category : Marquette (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Polk's Medical Register and Directory of the United States and Canada
Author: A Family Practice
Author: William D. LindseyPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 161075686X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A Family Practice is the sweeping saga of four generations of doctors, Russell men seeking innovative ways to sustain themselves as medical practitioners in the American South from the early nineteenth to the latter half of the twentieth century. The thread that binds the stories in this saga is one of blood, of medical vocations passed from fathers to sons and nephews. This study of four generations of Russell doctors is an historical study with a biographical thread running through it. The authors take a wide-ranging look at the meaning of intergenerational vocations and the role of family, the economy, and social issues on the evolution of medical education and practice in the United States.
Outrage in Ohio
Author: David KimmelPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253034272
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
On a hot and dusty Sunday in June 1872, 13-year-old Mary Secaur set off on her two-mile walk home from church. She never arrived. The horrific death of this young girl inspired an illegal interstate pursuit-and-arrest, courtroom dramatics, conflicting confessions, and the daylight lynching of a traveling tin peddler and an intellectually disabled teenager. Who killed Mary Secaur? Were the accused actually guilty? What drove the citizens of Mercer County to lynch the suspects? David Kimmel seeks answers to these provoking questions and deftly recounts what actually happened in the fateful summer of 1872, imagining the inner workings of the small rural community, reconstructing the personal relationships of those involved, and restoring humanity to this gripping story. Using a unique blend of historical research and contemporary accounts, Outrage in Ohio explores how a terrible crime ripped an Ohio farming community apart and asks us to question what really happened to Mary Secaur.
Polk's Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and Washtenaw County Directory
Author: Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration
Author: Thomas AielloPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820362875
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
This book’s predecessor, The Grapevine of the Black South, emphasized the owners of the Atlanta Daily World and its operation of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate between 1931 and 1955. In a pragmatic effort to avoid racial confrontation developing from white fear, newspaper editors developed a practical radicalism that argued on the fringes of racial hegemony, saving their loudest vitriol for tyranny that was not local and thus left no stake in the game for would-be white saboteurs. Thomas Aiello reexamined historical thinking about the Depression-era Black South, the information flow of the Great Migration, the place of southern newspapers in the historiography of Black journalism, and even the ideological and philosophical underpinnings of the civil rights movement. With Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration, Aiello continues that analysis by tracing the development and trajectory of the individual newspapers of the Syndicate, evaluating those with surviving issues, and presenting them as they existed in proximity to their Atlanta hub. In so doing, he emphasizes the thread of practical radicalism that ran through Syndicate editorial policy. Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration is a supplement to The Grapevine of the Black South, providing a fuller picture of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate and the Black press in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.
Tennessee Women
Author: Sarah Wilkerson FreemanPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820337439
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
"Southern women: their lives and times"--Page 4 of cover.