Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Alfred Jackson was an enslaved person living at Hermitage under President Andrew Jackson. When a white visitor…
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Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Author Zora Neal Hurston lived with her brother Robert Hurston, a student at Meharry Medical College, in…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–It was a muggy Monday in 1964 and as darkness fell, Jacksonville, Florida, was ablaze with racial…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Memphis Minnie was known as the Queen of the Blues. She was a singer, a guitarist and…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–After moving to Nashville in 1884, Preston Taylor, a business and religious leader, established Greenwood, Nashville’s second…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–There was a three-day riot in Memphis in 1866. It started when a white police officer attempted…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–The Memphis Red Sox Negro League team operated from 1920 to 1940. Country singer Charley Pride pitched…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Academy Award winning actor Morgan Freeman was born June 1, 1937 in Memphis. Please make a donation…
By Oscar H. Blayton Each February in schools across the nation, pictures of well-known Black historical figures are mounted on…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–A Negro Public Library operated for more than 30 years as a segregated facility from 1916 to…