A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN GENEALOGICAL RESOURCES IN THE TENNESSEE STATE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES. How To Books and Articles

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1 A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN GENEALOGICAL RESOURCES IN THE TENNESSEE STATE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES How To Books and Articles Bah, Char McGargo. Starting Your African American Research. National Genealogical Society News Magazine 33, no. 4 (October-December 2007): Beasley, Donna. Family Pride: The Complete Guide to Tracing African-American Genealogy. New York, NY: Macmillan, c1997. Blockson, Charles and Ron Fry. Black Genealogy. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice- Hall, c1977. Burroughs, Tony. Black Roots: A Beginner s Guide to Tracing the African American Family Tree. New York, NY: Fireside, Researching Buffalo Soldiers for Genealogical and Historical Links. The Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society 14, nos. 3 & 4 (1995): Croasmun, Jeanie. Jumping Chasms. Ancestry 24, no. 1 (January-February 2006): Eisenberg, Marcia J. Finding Your Revolutionary War Ancestor. The Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society 7, no. 1 (Spring 1986): Frankel, Novalee. From Slave Women to Free Women: The National Archives and Black Women s History in the Civil War Era. Prologue 29, no. 2 (Summer 1997): Gates, Henry Louis. Finding Oprah s Roots; Finding Your Own. New York, NY: Crown Publishers, c2007. Nordmann, Christopher A. Jumping Over the Broomstick: Resources for Documenting Slave Marriages. National Genealogical Society Quarterly 91, no. 3 (September 2003): Tracing African Americans During the Civil War. National Genealogical Society News Magazine 31, no. 3 (July/August/ September 2005):

2 2 Pinnick, Timothy Nathan. Slave Era Insurance Registry. National Genealogical Society Newsletter 33, no. 4 (October-December 2007): Plante, Trevor K. Researching African Americans in the U. S. Army, : Buffalo Soldiers and Black Infantrymen. Prologue 33, no. 1 (Spring 2001): Reidy, Joseph P. Slave Emancipation Through the Prism of Archives Records. Prologue 29, no. 2 (Summer 1997): Sharp. Rebecca K. Their... Bedding is wet Their floors are damp : Pre-Bureau Records and Civil War African American Genealogy. Prologue 39, no. 2 (Summer 2007): Street, David H. Slave Genealogy: A Research Guide with Case Studies. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., Washington, Reginald. The Freedmen s Savings and Trust Company and African American Genealogical Research. Prologue 29, no. 2 (Summer 1997): Sealing the Sacred Bonds of Holy Matrimony: Freedmen s Bureau Marriage Records. Prologue 37, no. 1 (Spring 2005): The Southern Claims Commission: A Source for African American Roots. Prologue 29, no. 2 (Summer 1997): Williams, Harold D. Sources for the Study of Afro-American History at the National Archives: Land-Entry Papers. The Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society 7, no. 2 (Summer 1986): Young, Tommie M. Exploring and Documenting the Black Family. Clarksville, TN: Josten s Publishers, c1982.

3 3 GENERAL RESEARCH GUIDES Bennett, Lerone. Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, Chicago, IL: Johnson Publishing Co., 1962, Bradley, Patricia A. Tennessee s Black Legislators, M. S. thesis, Tennessee State University, Burroughs, Tony. African American Research, Ch. 14 in The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy, 3 rd ed., edited by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, Provo, UT: Ancestry, Byers, Paula Kay, ed. African American Genealogical Sourcebooks. New York: Gale Research, c1995. Campbell, Georgetta Merritt. Extant Collections of Early Newspapers: A Research Guide to the Black Press, , with an Index to the Boston Guardian, Troy, NY: The Whitson Publishing Co., Cartwright, Joseph H. The Triumph of Jim Crow: Tennessee Race Relations in the 1880s. Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, Cassedy, James Gilbert. African Americans and the American Labor Movement. Prologue 29, no. 2 (Summer 1997): Ciment, James. Atlas of African-American History. New York, NY: Facts on File, c2001. Cimprich, John. Slavery s End in Tennessee, Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, c1985. Covey, Hubert C. African American Slave Medicine: Herbal and Non-Herbal Treatments. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, Danky, James P. and Maureen E. Hady, eds. African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.

4 4 Daughters of the American Revolution. Minority Military Service: Connecticut, Washington, DC: National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, Minority Military Service: Maine, Washington, DC: National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, Minority Military Service: Massachusetts, Washington, DC: National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, Minority Military Service: New Hampshire, Vermont, Washington, DC: National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, Minority Military Service: Rhode Island, Washington, DC: National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, Elder, Pat Spurlock. Tennessee Colored Confederate Veteran Pension Applications. Blountville, TN: Continuity Press, c1997. Everly, Elaine C. Freedmen s Bureau Records: An Overview. Prologue 29, no. 2 (Summer 1997): Franklin, John Hope. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans. New York, NY: Knopf, Graham, Hugh Davis. Crisis in Print: Desegregation and the Press in Tennessee. [Nashville, TN]: Vanderbilt University Press, c1967. Greenfield, William Russell. A History of the A. M. E. Church in Tennessee. Nashville, TN: s. n., c1942. Gutman, Herbert George. The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, New York, NY: Pantheon Books, Haley, James T. Afro-American Encyclopedia: or, the Thoughts. Doings, and Sayings of the Race, Embracing Addresses, Lectures, Biographical Sketches, Sermons, Poems, Names of Universities, Colleges, Seminaries, Newspapers, Books, and a History of the Denominations, Giving the Numerical Strength of Each. Nashville, TN: Haley & Florida, 1895.

5 5 Hewett, Janet, ed. The Roster of Union Soldiers, : United States Colored Troops. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Co., Hill, Walter B. Living with the Hydra: The Documentation of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Federal Records. Prologue 32, no. 4(Winter 2000): Howington, Arthur Fletcher. The Treatment of Slaves and Free Blacks in the State and Local Courts of Tennessee. Photocopy. Ph.D. thesis, Vanderbilt University, Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1982, c What Sayeth the Law: The Treatment of Slaves and Free Blacks in the State and Local Courts of Tennessee. New York, NY: Garland Publishers, Imes, William L. The Legal Status of Free Negroes and Slaves in Tennessee. Journal of Negro History 4 (1919): Jackson, Ronald Vern, ed. Tennessee 1860 Slave Schedule. North Salt Lake, UT: Accelerated Indexing Systems International, c1990. Jacobs, Donald M., ed. Antebellum Black Newspapers: Indices to New York Freedom s Journal ( ), The Rights of All (1829), The Weekly Advocate (1837), and The Colored American ( ). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Jewett, Clayton E. and John O. Allen. Slavery in the South: A State-By-State History. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Johnson, Clifton H. Some Archival Sources on Negro History in Tennessee. Tennessee Historical Quarterly 28, no. 4 (Winter 1969): Lamon, Lester C. Black Tennesseans, Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, Blacks in Tennessee, Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, Negroes in Tennessee, Ph. D. thesis, University of North Carolina, Photocopy. Ann Arbor, MI; University Microfilms, Lawson, Jacqueline A. An Index of African Americans Identified in Selected Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1995.

6 6 Lewis, Ronald L. and James E. Newton, eds. The Other Slaves: Mechanics, Artisans, and Craftsmen. Boston, MA: G. K. Hall, c1978. Lovett, Bobby L. The Negro in Tennessee, : A Socio-Military History of the Civil War Era. Ph.D. thesis, University of Arkansas, Photocopy. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, The Negro s Civil War in Tennessee, Journal of Negro History 59 (1976): Lovett, Bobby L. and Linda T. Wynn, eds. Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee. Nashville, TN: Annual Local Conference on Afro-American Culture and History, Mills, Gary B. Can Researchers Prove the Unproveable? A Selective Bibliography of Efforts to Genealogically Document Children of Master- Slave Relationships. National Genealogical Society Quarterly 89, no. 3 (September 2001): Tracing Free People of Color in the Antebellum South: Methods, Sources, and Perspectives. National Genealogical Society Quarterly 78, no. 4 (December 1990): Mooney, Chase Curran. Slavery in Tennessee. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, Some Institutional and Statistical Aspects of Slavery in Tennessee. Tennessee Historical Quarterly 1, no. 3 (September 1942): National Archives and Records Service. Records of Black Americans Chap. 12 in Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives, Washington, DC: National Archives Trust Fund Board, Newman, Debra L., comp. Black History: A Guide to Civilian Records in the National Archives. Washington, DC: National Archives Trust Fund Board, Oubre, Claude F. Forty Acres and a Mule: The Freedmen s Bureau and Black Land Ownership. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, c1978. Patterson, Caleb Perry. The Negro in Tennessee, Austin, TX: University of Texas, 1922.

7 7 Penn, Irvine Garland. The Afro-American Press, and Its Editors. Springfield, MA: Willey & Co., Publishers, Penn, Lisha B., comp. Records of Military Agencies Relating to African Americans from the Post-World War I Period to the Korean War. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, Pernell, Frederick W. A Survey of Military Records Concerning the Negro in the Modern Military Field Branch, NARA. Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society 7, no. 2 (Summer 1986): Potts, Howard E., comp. A Comprehensive Name Index for the American Slave. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Puckett, Newbell Niles. Black Names in America: Origins and Usage. Boston, MA: G. K. Hall & Co., Quarles, Benjamin. Afro-Americans in the Revolutionary War Era. The Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society 7. no. 1 (Spring 1986): The Negro in the American Revolution. Chapel Hill, NC: Institute of American History and Culture, c The Negro in the Civil War. Boston, MA: Little, Brown Pub., c1953. Reich, Steven A., ed. Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Richardson, Clement, ed. The National Cyclopedia of the Colored Race, Volume One. Montgomery, AL: National Publishing Co., Inc., Schubert, Frank N., comp. On the Trail of the Buffalo Soldier: Biographies of African American Soldiers in the U. S. Army, Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Schweninger, Loren. Black Property Owners in the South, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, Shaffer, Donald R. I Do Not Suppose that Uncle Sam Looks at the Skin : African Americans and the Civil War Pension System, Civil War History 46, no. 2 (June 2000):

8 8 Simmons, Walter J. and Henry McNeal Turner. Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising. Cleveland, OH: G. M. Rewall & Co., Smith, Jonathan Kennon Thompson. Death Notices in the CME Christian Index Jackson, TN: J. K. T. Smith, Sutcliffe, Andrea, ed. Mighty Rough Times I Tell You: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Tennessee. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, Publisher, Taylor, Alrutheus Ambush. The Negro in Tennessee, Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, Inc., Van Dyke, Roger Raymond. The Free Negro in Tennessee, Ph. D. thesis, Florida State University, Photocopy. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, Weir, William. The Encyclopedia of African American Military History. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, West, Carroll Van. Trial and Triumph: Essays in Tennessee s African American History. Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, Westwood, Howard C. Black Troops, White Commanders and Freedmen During the Civil War. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, Wiley, Bell Irvin. Cotton and Slavery in the History of West Tennessee. M. A. thesis, University of Kentucky, Wilson, Joseph T. The Black Phalanx: A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the War of , Hartford, CT: American Publishing Co., Windley, Lathan A., comp. Runaway Slave Advertisements: A Documentary History from the 1730s to Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, (Note: only the states of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Maryland and Virginia are represented.)

9 9 LOCAL HISTORY AND RESEARCH GUIDES BENTON COUNTY Smith, Jonathan Kennon Thompson, comp. Tombstone Inscriptions from Black Cemeteries in Benton County, Tennessee. Jackson, TN: J. K. T. Smith, BRADLEY COUNTY Fagan, Barbara, comp Slave Schedule, Bradley County, Tennessee. Cleveland, TN: Cleveland Public Library, CAMPBELL COUNTY United States. Works Progress Administration. Tennessee Negro Cemetery Records and Marriage Records: Counties of Campbell, Dickson, Madison, McMinn, Monroe, Roane, Sevier. S. l.: s. n., CARROLL COUNTY Smith, Jonathan Kennon Thompson, comp. Inscriptions from Black Cemeteries in Carroll County, Tennessee. [Jackson, TN]: J. K. T. Smith, c2000. COFFEE COUNTY Allen, Tommie, Sue Maszaros and East Middle School. African Americans in Coffee County, Tennessee, transcribed from the 1870, 1880, and 1920 Census Records of the 13 th Civil District (Tullahoma). Tullahoma, TN: East Middle School, 1995.

10 10 East Middle School (Tullahoma, TN) Eighth Grade Class. The Citizens Cemetery: A Project by the 8 th Grade of East Middle School. Tullahoma, TN: East Middle School, CROCKETT COUNTY Smith, Jonathan Kennon Thompson, comp. Tombstone Inscriptions from Black Cemeteries in Crockett County, Tennessee. [Jackson, TN]: J. K. T. Smith, c1997. DAVIDSON COUNTY/NASHVILLE Bragg, Emma W. Scrapbook: Some Family Reminiscence of a Native Nashville Septuagenarian. Nashville, TN: E. W. Bragg, Craighead, Sandra G. Abstracts from the Colored Tennessean, : Want Ads for Lost Relatives. S. l.: S. G. Craighead, Foster, Pamela E. Nashville s Holy Trinity Episcopal Church: The Early Years. Nashville, TN: Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, c2002. Goodstein, Anita Shafer. Black History on the Nashville Frontier, Tennessee Historical Quarterly 38, no. 4 (Winter 1979): Harrison, Carrie and Josephine Ridley, eds. Reclaiming Our Past: The History of Kayne Avenue Missionary Baptist Church, Nashville, Tennessee Nashville, TN: Kayne Avenue Baptist Church, c1993. Hubbard, G. W., comp. A History of the Colored Schools of Nashville, Tennessee. Nashville, TN: Wheeler, Marshall & Bruce, Johnson, Charles W., M. D. The Spirit of a Place Called Meharry: The Strength of Its Past to Shape the Future. Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, Lovett, Bobby L. The African American History of Nashville, Tennessee, : Elites and Dilemmas. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1999.

11 10 Lovett, Bobby L. From Winter to Winter: The Afro-American History of Nashville, Nashville, TN: Tennessee State University, Nashville s Fort Negley: A Symbol of Blacks Involvement with the Union Army. Tennessee Historical Quarterly 41, no. 1 (Spring 1982): Nashville Tennessean. Negro History, the Hidden Past. From the Pages of the Nashville Tennessean. Nashville, TN: Nashville Tennessean, Overton, Sadie Whitlow. The House of the Lord: Lake Providence Missionary Baptist Church, Nashville, Tennessee, Franklin, TN: Providence House Publishers, c1997. Richardson, Joe Martin. A History of Fisk University, Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, c1980. Robbins, Faye Wellborn. A World-Within-A-World: Black Nashville, Ph. D. thesis, University of Arkansas, Photocopy. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, Roman, Charles Victor. Meharry Medical College: A History. Nashville, TN: Sunday School Publishing Board of the National Baptist Convention, Inc., Summerville, James. Educating Black Doctors: A History of Meharry Medical College. University of Alabama Press, Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State University, Area of Business. The Negro Business Directory, Nashville, Tennessee, [Nashville, TN]: Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State University, c1953. DICKSON COUNTY United States. Works Progress Administration. Tennessee Negro Cemetery Records and Marriage Records: Counties of Campbell, Dickson, Madison, McMinn, Monroe, Roane, Sevier. S. l.: s. n., c1938.

12 11 FAYETTE COUNTY Fayette County Project Volunteers. Step By Step: Evolution and Operation of the Cornell Students Civil-Rights Project in Tennessee, Summer, New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Co., Hamburger, Robert. Our Portion of Hell: Fayette County, Tennessee: An Oral History of the Struggle for Civil Rights. New York, N. Y.: Links Books, Shaw, Dan. Mange and Jennie Jordan Jones: The Saga of a Fayette County Couple. S. l.: D. Shaw, Jr., c1995. Tennessee State Advisory Committee. Fear Runs Deep: A Report by the Tennessee State Advisory Committee to the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, Open Meeting March 17-18, 1971, Somerville, Tennessee. S. l.: The Committee, 1971(?). FRANKLIN COUNTY Arnold, Steve. Franklin County s Confederates of Color: The Chavers Family of the Crow Creek Valley. Franklin County Historical Review 28 (1998): Daughters of the American Revolution, Tennessee Society. Tennesee DAR Genealogical Records; Committee Report, Miscellaneous Records, Series 2, Vol. 23. Tennessee: Tennessee DAR, Note: Contains lists of the names of some Franklin County slaves and their owners , as well as African-American funerals handled by the Old Steed- Anderton Funeral Home ca The Old Steed-Anderton Funeral Home became the Watson Gamble Funeral Home in Hill, Arthur Cyrus. The History of the Black People of Franklin County, Tennessee. Ph.D. thesis, University of Minnesota, Photocopy. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, Whitman, Robert H. Negro Education in Franklin County, Yesterday and Today. Nashville, TN: Tennessee A & I State Teachers College, 1942.

13 12 GIBSON COUNTY Craighead, Sandra G. Index and Analysis of the Register of Colored Marriages Performed at the Freedmen s Bureau, Trenton (Gibson County), Tennessee, [S. l.]: S. G. Craighead, Smith, Jonathan Kennon Thompson, comp. Tombstone Inscriptions from Black Cemeteries in Gibson County, Tennessee. Jackson, TN: J. K. T. Smith, GILES COUNTY Savage, Margarette Jordan. Finding Our Past: History of Black Educators in Giles County, Pulaski, TN: Giles County Historical Society, c1986. Wood, James L. The Historical Development of the Negro in Giles County, Tennessee. Pulaski, TN: J. L. Wood, c2000. GRAINGER COUNTY Collins, Betty Jane VanOver, comp Grainger County, Tennessee Census & Slave Schedule, Indexed. S. l.: B. J. V. Collins, HAMBLEN COUNTY Osborne, Willie P, Clara L. Osborne, and Luie Hargraves, eds. Contributions of Blacks to Hamblen County, ; Historical Project Sponsored by the Progressive Business Association and MFC Discover Tennessee. Morristown, TN: Progressive Business Association, 1995.

14 13 HAMILTON COUNTY/CHATTANOOGA Hubbard, Rita L. African Americans of Chattanooga: A History of Unsung Heroes. Charleston, SC: History Press, White, J. Bliss, comp Biography and Achievements of the Colored Citizens of Chattanooga. Chattanooga, TN: [J. Bliss White?], Reprint, Signal Mountain, TN: Mountain Press, HARDIN COUNTY Brewington, Ronney R., comp. Slave Schedules for Hardin County, Tennessee, 1850 & Enville, TN: Brewington General Services, HAWKINS COUNTY Rogers, Louise F. The Older Black Families of Rogersville, Tennessee. Rogersville, TN: L. F. Rogers, \ HAYWOOD COUNTY Norris, Sharon. Black America Series: Haywood County, Tennessee. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, Smith, Jonathan Kennon Thompson, comp. Tombstone Inscriptions from Black Cemeteries in Haywood County, Tennessee. S. l.: J. K. T. Smith, c1998. Springfield, Raye. The Legacy of Tamar: Courage and Faith in an African American Family. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, c2000.

15 14 HENDERSON COUNTY Smith, Jonathan Kennon Thompson, comp. Tombstone Inscriptions from Black Cemeteries in Henderson County, Tennessee. [Jackson, TN]: J. K. T. Smith, HENRY COUNTY Tayloe, Stephanie Routon, comp. The History of Black Familys[sic]. Buchanan, TN: S. R. Tayloe, c Slave Accounts from the Old Records in the Archives. Buchanan, TN: S. R. Tayloe, c2004. HOUSTON COUNTY Finley, Nina. In the Beginning: Yellow Creek (Pre-1870): Roads[sic} Orders. Wills, Marriages, Slave Index, Agricultural Census. Erin, TN: Friends of the Houston County Library, c199-. KNOX COUNTY/KNOXVILLE Booker, Robert J. The History of Blacks in Knoxville, Tennessee: The First Hundred Years, Knoxville, TN: Beck Cultural Exchange Center, c Two Hundred Years of Black Culture in Knoxville, Virginia Beach, VA: Dunning Co., c1993.

16 15 Jones, James B. Knoxville s African-American Community, ; Comprehensive Cultural Resources Management Planning Services, Study Unit No. 9. [Nashville, TN]: Tennessee Historical Commission, State Historic Preservation Office, LINCOLN COUNTY St. Paul A. M. E. Church Lay Organization, comp. Lincoln County Black History Journal. Fayetteville, TN: St. Paul A. M. E. Church Lay Organization, MCMINN COUNTY United States. Works Progress Administration. Tennessee Negro Cemetery Records and Marriage Records: Counties of Campbell, Dickson, Madison, McMinn, Monroe, Roane, Sevier. S. l: s. n., MADISON COUNTY Smith, Jonathan Kennon Thompson, comp. Freedmen s Labor Contracts, Madison County, Tennessee, Jackson, TN: J. K. T. Smith, c Public Marriage Records of Black Persons in Madison County, Tennessee, [Jackson, TN]: J. K. T. Smith, c1998. Smith, Jonathan Kennon Thompson, comp. Tombstone Inscriptions from Black Cemeteries in Madison County, Tennessee. [Jackson, TN]: J. K. T. Smith, c1995. United States. Works Progress Administration. Tennessee Negro Cemetery Records and Marriage Records: Counties of Campbell, Dickson, Madison, McMinn, Monroe, Roane, Sevier. S. l.: s. n., 1938.

17 16 MONROE COUNTY United States. Works Progress Administration. Tennessee Negro Cemetery Records and Marriage Records: Counties of Campbell, Dickson, Madison, McMinn, Monroe, Roane, Sevier. S. l.: s. n., RHEA COUNTY Broyles, Bettye J. Rhea County, Tennessee Marriage Records of Colored Persons Dayton, TN: Rhea County Historical and Genealogical Society, 1995 ROANE COUNTY United States. Works Progress Administration. Tennessee Negro Cemetery Records and Marriage Records: Counties of Campbell, Dickson, Madison, McMinn, Monroe, Roane, Sevier. S. l.: s. n., ROBERTSON COUNTY Baker, John F. The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family s Generational Journey to Freedom. New York, NY: Atria Books, Craighead, Sandra G. Abstracts for the Slave Record Book of Robertson County, Tennessee Planter, Josiah W. Fort. Middle Tennessee Genealogy 7, no. 1 (Summer 1993):7-10. Morton, Jacob C. and Virdner D. Moore, comps. Robertson County Negro Year Book. Springfield, TN: s. n., 1938.

18 17 RUTHERFORD COUNTY Hughes, Rev. Melvin E. A History of Rutherford County s African American Community. Murfreesboro, TN: Allen Chapel A. M. E. Church, Jorman, Laura C. Arbors to Bricks: A Hundred Years of African American Education in Rutherford County, Tennessee Murfreesboro, TN: Division of Continuing Studies and Public Service, Middle Tennessee State University, SEVIER COUNTY United States. Works Progress Administration. Tennessee Negro Cemetery Records and Marriage Records: Counties of Campbell, Dickson, Madison, McMinn, Monroe, Roane, Sevier. S. l: s. n., SHELBY COUNTY/MEMPHIS Church, Annette E. and Roberta Church. The Robert R. Churches of Memphis: A Father and Son Who Achieved in Spite of Race. Ann Arbor, MI: Edward Brothers, Church, Roberta and Ronald Walter. Charles W. Crawford, ed. Nineteenth Century Memphis Families of Color Memphis, TN: Murdock Printing Co., c1987. Green, Laurie B. Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

19 18 Hamilton, Green Polonius. The Bright Side of Memphis: A Compendium of Information Concerning the Colored People of Memphis, Tennessee, Showing Their Achievements in Business, Industrial and Professional Life, and Including Articles of General Interest to the Race. Memphis, TN: G. P. Hamilton, Reprint, Memphis, TN: Burke s Book Store, [1978]. Honey, Michael K. Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, c1993. Melton, Gloria Brown. Blacks in Memphis, Tennessee, : A Historical Study. Ph.D. thesis, Washington State University, Photocopy. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, Pacini, Marina. Photographs from the Memphis World Memphis, TN: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, (Note: The Memphis World was an African American newspaper published in the city from 1931 to 1973.) Smith, Jonathan Kennon Thompson, comp. Tombstone Inscriptions in Older Black Cemeteries, et cetera, in the Bartlett, Tennessee Area. [Jackson, TN]: J. K. T. Smith, c2001. Wade-Gayles, Gloria Jean. Pushed Back to Strength: A Black Woman s Journey Home. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, c1993. STEWART COUNTY Partlow, Thomas E., comp. Stewart County, Tennessee Slave Schedule of Lebanon, TN: T. E. Partlow, SUMNER COUNTY Patton, Juanita M., comp. Land, Slaves, and Other Courthouse Transactions, : Abstracts of Sumner County, Tennessee. Gallatin, TN: Sumner County Archives, 2005.

20 19 WILLIAMSON COUNTY Warwick, Rick, comp. Freedmen and Work in the Reconstruction Era: The Freedmen s Bureau Labor Contracts of Williamson County, Tennessee. [Murfreesboro, TN]: Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area, c Williamson County in Black & White. Special issue, Williamson County Historical Society Journal, No. 31. Franklin, TN: Williamson County Historical Society, WILSON COUNTY Lockett, Patricia Ward, Mattie McHollin and the Wilson County Black History Committee. In Their Own Voices: An Account of the Presence of African Americans in Wilson County. Lebanon, TN: The Lebanon Democrat, Partlow, Thomas E., comp. Wilson County, Tennessee African-American Records, Lebanon, TN: T. E. Partlow, c Wilson County, Tennessee Slave Schedule of Lebanon. TN: T. E. Partlow, c Wilson County, Tennessee Slave Schedule of Lebanon, TN: T. E. Partlow, Prepared by Chaddra Moore Tennessee State Library and Archives