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Title: Resources in African American History


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Resources in African American History
  • at the
  • Tennessee State Library Archives

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Slave auctions
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http//www.tn.gov/tsla  
Fisk University, 1868
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers helped make the nation
aware of African American achievement.
From the Merl Eppse Papers
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The 15th Amendment generated many political
cartoons.
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Images from TSLA Photo Database
http//www.tn.gov/tsla/
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This Cartede Visite shows a child with her slave
nurse.
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Civil War
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Jack Knox Cartoons
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TSLA also has important photos and documents from
the Civil Rights era.
Images from TSLA Photo Database
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Nat Turners Rebellion as portrayed in newspapers
of the time
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Wessyngton Plantation, Robertson County
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TeVA
  • 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.

http//www.tn.gov/tsla/
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The Harry Mustard Collection pictures Rutherford
County in the mid-1920s.
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The Mustard Collection focuses on health issues,
as in this photo of children receiving
vaccinations
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and this delightful photo of a child visiting a
health clinic.
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Mustards images brought changes in Tennessee
health standards.
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Other relevant TeVA images may be found in Early
20th Century Schoolhouses
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The 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
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Other TN Rosenwald schools
Lauderdale County
Crockett County
White County
Gibson County
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Many other TSLA collections contain remarkable
photographs.
Photo of Brushy Mountain Prison from Samuel
Robert Simpson Papers
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Sketches and drawings can provide important
information about life in earlier times. Here
are some details from a Harpers article about
the prison experience.
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Prisons housed both male and female inmates.
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This drawing foreshadows the Brushy Mountain
Prison photograph seen earlier in the
presentation.
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Our Cartes de Visite collection is full of
treasures like this lovely portrait.
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Our online Exhibits area showcases the stories
of the 14 African American legislators who
served in the Tennessee General Assembly
during the 19th century.
http//www.tn.gov/tsla/
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Early Tennessee legislators
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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.
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Tennessee Supreme Court, 1894
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One 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
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Businesses of the 1940s and 1950s
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A Pearl High School basketball team
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Business class at Tennessee AI
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Young stenographers (undated photo)
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The Tennessee AI History Study Club traveled to
the ChicagoWorlds Fair in 1933
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Ceremonies
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Social gatherings
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The Eppse collection also includes photos of
several famous African Americans, including
Hattie McDaniel, Louis Armstrong, and Jackie
Robinson.
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TSLA holdings include a number of drawings and
political cartoons,
1866 Memphis riots
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Fire in Freedmens Schoolhouse, Memphis, 1866
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This Harpers Weekly cartoon shows Hiram Revels,
the first black Senator, elected to Jefferson
Daviss former seat.
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From Harpers Magazine, May 5, 1866 Colored
Orphan Asylum, Memphis.TSLA Photo Database
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The Earl S. Miers River Photographs are part of
the rich TeVA Collection.
http//www.tn.gov/tsla/
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Roustabouts
http//www.tn.gov/tsla/
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This is a favorite from the Miers Collection.
http//www.tn.gov/tsla/
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The 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.
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Our photographic database, accessible from the
TSLA home page, contains a wide variety of
historic images.
http//www.tn.gov/tsla/
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Images from TSLA Photo Database
Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)
Ray Perkins Calvert photo, 1899
Sumner County, 1950
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from Photo Database
http//www.tn.gov/tsla/
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Pikeville School for Colored Boys, 1930s
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Did you know that Tennessee did not ratify the
15th Amendment until 1997?
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Visit us soon we have many more surprises!
__________________Tennessee State Library
Archives 403 7th Avenue North, Nashville 37243
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