{"id":382,"date":"2024-09-15T15:35:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T20:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/?p=382"},"modified":"2024-09-15T15:35:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T20:35:58","slug":"black-nashville-a-bibliography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/black-nashville-a-bibliography\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Nashville: A Bibliography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Civil Rights<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Halberstam, David.&nbsp;<em>The Children.&nbsp;<\/em>New York: Random House International, 1999. [<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200814230327\/http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/59386231\">Find in a Library<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>General History Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lovett, Bobby L.&nbsp;<em>The African-American History of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780-1930 Elites and Dilemmas.&nbsp;<\/em>Black community studies. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1999.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200814230327\/http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=kp1RUQ5QefIC\">[Searchable online via Google Books<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200814230327\/http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/40595241\">Find in a library]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lovett, Bobby L., and Linda T. Wynn.&nbsp;<em>Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee.&nbsp;<\/em>Nashville, Tenn: Annual Local Conference on Afro-American Culture and History, 1996.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200814230327\/http:\/\/www.tnstate.edu\/library\/digital\/content.html\">[Full-text available online<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200814230327\/http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/34533006\">Find in a library]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Morton-Young, Tommie.&nbsp;<em>Nashville, Tennessee.&nbsp;<\/em>Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub, 2000. [<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200814230327\/http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=I2JoPRsWaikC&amp;dq=isbn:0738506265\">Limited information via Google Books<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200814230327\/http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/45955524\">Find in a library]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Nashville Directories \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200814230327\/http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=dvoBAAAAYAAJ\">1856<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200814230327\/http:\/\/freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com\/~jjohnson\/\">1859<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200814230327\/http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=uu8CAAAAYAAJ\">1860<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200814230327\/http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=b-sCAAAAYAAJ\">1880<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200814230327\/http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=SvgCAAAAYAAJ\">1881<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200814230327\/http:\/\/distantcousin.com\/Directories\/TN\/Nashville\/1924\/\">1924<\/a>. (these are all free)<\/li>\n<li>Nashville Directories \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200814230327\/http:\/\/content.ancestry.com\/Browse\/list.aspx?dbid=1540&amp;path=Tennessee.Nashville\">1879-1889<\/a>&nbsp;are available with subscription at Ancestry.com.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>School Specific Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fisk University. Catalogue of the students and officers of Fisk University. Nashville, TN: Marshall &amp; Bruce Co., 1898.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200814230327\/http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=tfE2AAAAMAAJ\">Full book available via Google Books<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Fisk University. Catalogue of the students and officers of Fisk University. Nashville, TN: Marshall &amp; Bruce Co., 1912.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200814230327\/http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=sec2AAAAMAAJ\">Full book available via Google Books<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Cohen, Rodney T.&nbsp;<em>Fisk University<\/em>. College history series. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub, 2001.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200814230327\/http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/53874175\">[Find in a Library]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Collins, Leslie Morgan.&nbsp;One Hundred Years of Fisk University Presidents: 1875-1975; Cravath, Merrill, Gates, McKenzie, Jones, Johnson, Wright, Lawson. Nashville, Tennessee: Hemphill\u2019s Creative Printing, Inc, 1989.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200814230327\/http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/22692550\">[Find in a Library]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Meharry Catalogs, Announcements, News 1881-1912 (with some gaps in years) \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200814230327\/http:\/\/library.mmc.edu\/catalogues\/index.html\">available online<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Roman, C. V.&nbsp;Meharry Medical College A History. Nashville: National Baptist Convention, 1934. [<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200814230327\/http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/24609804\">Find in a Library<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Ward, Andrew. &nbsp;Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America.&nbsp;New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000. &nbsp;[<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200814230327\/http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/43386534\">Find in a Library<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Newspaper Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>\u201cWhen McKissack &amp; McKissack Received Award\u201d<\/em>. Chicago Defender. 7 Nov 1942. p.6, col. 2<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<em>From a Mite to A Million: Story of the McKissicks<\/em>\u201c. Chicago Defender. 7 Nov 1942. p. 6, col. 2.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lamon C.&nbsp;<em>The Black Community in Nashville and the Fisk University Student Strike of 1924-1925<\/em>. The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 40, No. 2 (May, 1974), pp. 225-244. &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200814230327\/http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/2206893\">http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/2206893<\/a>&gt;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>State-wide Tennessee Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lamon, Lester C.&nbsp;Blacks in Tennessee, 1791-1970. Tennessee three star books. Knoxville: Published in cooperation with the Tennessee Historical Commission [by] the University of Tennessee Press, 1981. [<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200814230327\/http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/7459951\">Find in a Library<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Cimprich, John.&nbsp;Slavery\u2019s End in Tennessee, 1861 to 1865. New York: University of Alabama P, 1985. [<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200814230327\/http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/11133019\">Find in a Library<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil Rights Halberstam, David.&nbsp;The Children.&nbsp;New York: Random House International, 1999. [Find in a Library] General History Sources: Lovett, Bobby L.&nbsp;The African-American History of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780-1930 Elites and Dilemmas.&nbsp;Black community studies. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1999.&nbsp;[Searchable online via Google <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/black-nashville-a-bibliography\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}