Title: Resources in African American History
1Resources in African American History
- at the
- Tennessee State Library Archives
2Slave auctions
3 http//www.tn.gov/tsla
Fisk University, 1868
4The Fisk Jubilee Singers helped make the nation
aware of African American achievement.
From the Merl Eppse Papers
5The 15th Amendment generated many political
cartoons.
6Images from TSLA Photo Database
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7This Cartede Visite shows a child with her slave
nurse.
8Civil War
9Jack Knox Cartoons
10TSLA also has important photos and documents from
the Civil Rights era.
Images from TSLA Photo Database
11Nat Turners Rebellion as portrayed in newspapers
of the time
12Wessyngton Plantation, Robertson County
13TeVA
- The Tennessee Virtual Archive
- (TeVA) contains a wealth of
- historic images from the
- treasures in our collection.
- It is accessible from our main web page.
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14The Harry Mustard Collection pictures Rutherford
County in the mid-1920s.
15The Mustard Collection focuses on health issues,
as in this photo of children receiving
vaccinations
16and this delightful photo of a child visiting a
health clinic.
17Mustards images brought changes in Tennessee
health standards.
18Other relevant TeVA images may be found in Early
20th Century Schoolhouses
19The Rosenwald schools, a vital part of early
black education in Tennessee, were funded by a
private foundation, as well as by contributions
from private donors and some state funds.
Bells School, Crockett County
20Other TN Rosenwald schools
Lauderdale County
Crockett County
White County
Gibson County
21Many other TSLA collections contain remarkable
photographs.
Photo of Brushy Mountain Prison from Samuel
Robert Simpson Papers
22Sketches and drawings can provide important
information about life in earlier times. Here
are some details from a Harpers article about
the prison experience.
23 Prisons housed both male and female inmates.
24This drawing foreshadows the Brushy Mountain
Prison photograph seen earlier in the
presentation.
25Our Cartes de Visite collection is full of
treasures like this lovely portrait.
26Our online Exhibits area showcases the stories
of the 14 African American legislators who
served in the Tennessee General Assembly
during the 19th century.
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27Early Tennessee legislators
28 The Education Outreach area of the TSLA website
featuresTeaching American History, a set of
digitized primary sources (with interpretive
text) linked to the 10 eras of history
designated by the StateDepartment of Education.
29Tennessee Supreme Court, 1894
30One of the most interesting photo collections at
TSLA can be found in the Merl Eppse Papers,
featuring images of cultural, educational,
andrecreational life in Tennessee.cd
31Businesses of the 1940s and 1950s
32A Pearl High School basketball team
33Business class at Tennessee AI
34Young stenographers (undated photo)
35The Tennessee AI History Study Club traveled to
the ChicagoWorlds Fair in 1933
36 Ceremonies
37 Social gatherings
38The Eppse collection also includes photos of
several famous African Americans, including
Hattie McDaniel, Louis Armstrong, and Jackie
Robinson.
39TSLA holdings include a number of drawings and
political cartoons,
1866 Memphis riots
40Fire in Freedmens Schoolhouse, Memphis, 1866
41This Harpers Weekly cartoon shows Hiram Revels,
the first black Senator, elected to Jefferson
Daviss former seat.
42From Harpers Magazine, May 5, 1866 Colored
Orphan Asylum, Memphis.TSLA Photo Database
43The Earl S. Miers River Photographs are part of
the rich TeVA Collection.
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44Roustabouts
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45 This is a favorite from the Miers Collection.
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46The Fisk University scrapbook of W.H. Fort Jr.
contains many historically valuable images.
These photos show Langston Hughes on campus and a
Nashville flood in 1926.
47Our photographic database, accessible from the
TSLA home page, contains a wide variety of
historic images.
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48Images from TSLA Photo Database
Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)
Ray Perkins Calvert photo, 1899
Sumner County, 1950
49 from Photo Database
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50 Pikeville School for Colored Boys, 1930s
51Did you know that Tennessee did not ratify the
15th Amendment until 1997?
52Visit us soon we have many more surprises!
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