African American History Resources/Middle Tennessee
Websites and Databases
History Before Us – The True American History | Black History
Tennessee African American Genealogy | Access Genealogy
(1866) Jim Crow Laws: Tennessee, 1866-1955 (blackpast.org)
Fisk University Scrapbook | Tennessee Secretary of State (tn.gov)
Museums and Historic Sites
NMAAM20 – National Museum of African American Music
Promise Land (tennesseeencyclopedia.net)
Mt. Olive Cemetery Historical Preservation Society
The Nashville Slave Market Historical Marker (hmdb.org)
Tennessee – US Civil Rights Trail
Clarksville/Montgomery County African American Legacy Trail
Local Articles
Below is a sampling of articles pertaining to local African American history in Middle Tennessee:
Clarksville Great Fire of 1878 started amid lynching, police shooting (theleafchronicle.com)
Franklin to erect statue honoring U.S. Colored Troops (tennessean.com)
Clarksville Tennessee Black History Month Rev. Wilbur N. Daniel APSU (theleafchronicle.com)
Iconic lunch counter restored at Woolworth on 5th (tennessean.com)
The Freed Slaves of Montgomery County – Clarksville, TN Online (clarksvilleonline.com)
Burt High historical marker long time in the making (theleafchronicle.com)
Day to Day Clarksville Black History Month facts: Richard Hampton (theleafchronicle.com)
Steve Wylie, from Clarksville to coal mines to pro baseball (theleafchronicle.com)