--BIOGRAPHIES-

*African-American Builders of Sevier County, Tennessee. Written by Robbie D. Jones, 1998.

*Ernest Raymond Alexander. Written by H. Henryne D. White, 1991.

*Lemuel Arthur Bowman, 1887-1965. Written by Linda T. Wynn, 1995.

*Deford Bailey. Written by Linda T. Wynn, 1989.

*Henry Allen Boyd, 1876-1958. Written by Bobby L. Lovett, 1987.

*Richard Henry Boyd, 1843-1922. Written by Lois C. McDougald, 1983.

*Robert Fulton Boyd, 1855-1912. Written by Linda T. Wynn, 1985.

*Susanna McGavock Carter, 1812. Written by Emma White Bragg, 1992.

*Robert Reed Church, Sr., 1839-1912. Written by Reavis L. Mitchell, Jr., 1994.

*Herbert Clark. "The Life of James Carroll Napier, 1845-1940."

Paper presented at the 1983 Conference.

*M. W. Day, Written by Lois C. McDougald, 1989.

*Aaron Douglas, 1899-1979. Written by Reavis L. Mitchell, Jr., 1998.

*William Edmondson, 1870-1951. Written by Linda T. Wynn, 1986.

*Coyness L. Ennix L. Sr., 1901-1984. Written by Bobby L. Lovett and Lois C. McDougald.

*Meredith G. Ferguson, 1894-1978. Written by Reavis L. Mitchell, Jr., 1993

*Fisk Jubilee Singers. Written by Kay Beasley, 1990.

*John Wesley Frierson, 1880-1965. Written by Reavis Mitchell, 1984.

*Sutton E. Griggs, 1872-1933. Written by Helen R. Houston, 1984.

*William Jasper Hale, 1874-1944. Written by Vallie P. Pursley, 1987.

*William D. Hawkins, Sr. Written by E. H. Baines, 1989.

*Elder Zema W. Hill, 1891-1970. Written by Reavis L. Mitchell, 1990.

*Jefferson Street, Written by Reavis L. Mitchell, Jr., 1999

*Charles S. Johnson, 1893-1956. Written by Reavis L. Mitchell,1988.

*Sampson W. Keeble, 1832-mid-1880s. Written by Linda T. Wynn, 1990

*Robert Emmitt Lillard, 1907-1991. Written by Linda T. Wynn, 1993.

*Z. Alexander Looby, 1899-1972. Written by Linda T. Wynn, 1984.

*Harold M. Love, 1919-1996. Written by Pamela Smoot, 1998.

*Samuel Lowery, 1832-1900. Written by David Mills and Bobby L. Lovett, 1984.

*Nelson G. Merry, 1824-1884. Written by Linda T. Wynn, 1983.

*Ella Sheppard Moore, 1851-1914. Written by Beth Howse, 1987.

*David C. Morton. "The Life of Deford Bailey: Black Grand Ole Opry Star." Paper presented at the 1993 Conference.

*James C. Napier, 1845-1940. Written by Herbert Clark, 1983.

*Negro Branch of the Carnegie Library, 1916-1949. Written by Linda T. Wynn, 1997.

*People's Savings Bank and Trust Company, 1909-1930. Written by Linda T. Wynn, 1999.

*Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee.    Edited by Bobby L. Lovett and Linda T. Wynn, c1996.

*Theodore "Ted" Rhodes, 1913-1969. Written by Linda T. Wynn, 1998.

*Wilma Rudolph and the TSU Tigerbelles. Written by Bobby L. Lovett, 1997.

*Benjamin 'Pap' Singleton, 1809-? Written by Bobby L. Lovett, 1990.

*Kelly Miller Smith, 1920-1984. Written by Linda T. Wynn, 1986.

*The Stone Sisters. Written by Emma White Bragg, 1990.

*Mother Mary Magdalena L. Tate, 1871-1930. Written by E. Dovie Shuford, 1992.

*Preston Taylor, 1849-1931. Written by Joe E. McClure, 1983.

*Tennessee Centennial Exposition: The Africian American Community. Written by Reavis L. Mitchell, 1997.

*Arthur Melvin Townsend, 1875-1959. Written by Linda T. Wynn, 1988.

*Willa Ann Hadley Townsend, 1880-1947. Written by Linda T. Wynn, 1988.

*Randall B. Vandavall, Written by Bobby L. Lovett, 1989.

*Carrie J. R. White: Free Black Woman. Written by Emma W. Bragg, 1989.

*Avon Nyanza Williams, Jr., 1921 1985.

*John W. Work, 1901-1967, Written by Linda T. Wynn, 1987.

--EXHIBITIONS-

McBride, Michael, Coordinator. Art Exhibition: Art Works of Local Schoolteachers and Students, 1995 Conference.

McBride, Michael, Coordinator. Art Exhibition, 1996 Conference.

Harris, Dolores Ashley and Nina Lovelace. The Art Works of Dolores Ashley Harris and Nina Lovelace, 1990 Conference.

Waters, Jerry and LaFran Fort. Exhibit of Afro-American Art Works of Jerry Waters and LaFran Fort, 1988 Conference.

Waters, Jerry and Viola Woods, Coordinators. Afro-American Art: Student  Exhibition/Competition,  1983 Conference.

Wood, Viola, Coordinator. Exhibition of Art by Local Black Artists, 1985 Conference.

________. Exhibition of Work by Local Afro-American Artists, 1986 Conference.

________. Exhibition--The Art Works of Aaron Douglass, 1987 Conference.

_______.  Art Exhibition: Sculptures by Local Afro-American Artists, 1989 Conference.

_______.  The Works of Dolores Ashley Harris and Nina Lovelace, 1990 Conference.

_______.  Works by Emma Faulkner, Anita Holloway, Bill Johnson, Michael Rouse, Larry
Scott, Pat Smith, and David Smith, 1991 Conference.

_______.  Works by John Ashworth, Melvin Davis, LaFran Fort, Buist Hardison, Nina Lovelace, Roderick Owens, and Viola Woods, 1992 Conference.

_______. Photographs by Local African-American Artists, 1993 Conference.

FISK JUBILEE SINGERS. Performance at the 1992 Conference. Mrs. DeLise Hall, Music Director.

Gospel Music Concert, THE FIRESIDE SINGERS, Nashville. Dr.Robert Cogswell. Presented at the 1991 Conference.

"A History of Jazz: A Musical Presentation." Performance at the 1988 Conference. Directed by Leonard Morton, Sr. and accompanied by Foster Shockley.

THE MEISTERSINGERS, Tennessee State University. "Negro Spirituals: The African-American Experience." Performance at the 1990 Conference. Mrs. Charlotte Rhodes, Director.

________. "A Medley of Music."Performance at the 1995 Conference. Mrs.
Diana Poe, Director.

New Directions Gospel Choir. "Medley of Gospel Songs" Performance at the 1999 Conference.

THE PRINCELY PLAYERS. "The Drama of Black History." Performance at the 1993 Conference.

THE TENNAISSANCE THEATRE COMPANY: "IDA B. WELLS" Performance at the 1998 Conference.

TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY'S NEW SHOW CHOIR. "A Medley of Music and Dance. Performance at the 1996 Conference. Mrs. Diana Poe, Director.

___________________________________________. "A Medley of Music and Dance. Performance at the 1999 Conference. Mrs. Diana Poe, Director.

Art

*Creswell, Pearl S. "Artists of the Harlem Renaissance." Paper presented at the 1988 Conference.

Fort, LaFran. "The Afro-American Art of Aaron Douglass." Paper presented at the 1987 Conference.

Grogan, Kevin. "African-American Art and Art Collections in Nashville." Paper presented at the 1994 Conference.

Kirschke, Amy. "Aaron Douglas: Harlem Renaissance Artist in Nashville." Paper presented at the 1996 Conference.

Overton, Sadie. "Will Edmundson: Nashville's Famous Black Sculptor." Paper presented at the 1990 Conference.

Ridley, Gregory. "Art and Culture." Paper presented at the 1981 Conference.

________________. "Presentation and Exhibition on Afro-American Art." Paper presented at the 1985 Conference.

Business

*Baxter, James. "A Portrait of Charles Allen Rawls: Black Entrepreneur in Brownsville, Tennessee." Paper presented at the 1991 Conference.

*Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company, 1904- Written by Linda T. Wynn, 1985.

McClure, Joe E. "Preston Taylor and Greenwood Cemetery." Paper presented at the 1983 Conference.

*McKissack and McKissack. Written by Linda T. Wynn, 1985.

*Mills, David. "Samuel Lowery: Inventor and the Free Black Community." Paper presented at the 1983 Conference.

*Nashville's' Freedman's Bank, 1865-1874. Written by Bobby L. Lovett, 1995.

*The Union Transportation Company, 1905-1906. Written by Linda T. Wynn, 1986.

Church

Cain, Van A. "A Tumultous Century: The Changing Relationships Between Black and the Episcopal Church in Middle Tennessee, 1834-1934. "Paper presented at the 1985 Conference.

*Capers Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. Written by Carmelia D. Gregory, 1987.

Fancher, Evelyn. "African American Church History and Archives in Nashville." Paper presented at the 1996 Conference.

*First Baptist Church East Nashville. Written by Bobby L. Lovett, 1988.

*First Colored Baptist Church, 1848-1891. Written by Linda T. Wynn, 1985.

Gregory, Carmelia. "A History of Capers CME Memorial Church." Paper presented at the 1988 Conference.

*Jones, Oddie Bryant. "Rise and Demise of Bryant's Grove Baptist Church, Hermitage, TN." Paper presented at the 1988 Conference.

McDougald, Lois C. "A Synopsis of the Histories of Nashville's Black Churches." Paper presented at the 1983 Conference.

*Mitchell, Reavis L. "Outsider of Not? The Black Man and the Catholic Church in Nashville, Tennessee, 1954-1970." Paper Presented at the 1984 Conference.

*Spruce Street Baptist Church (1895- ). Written by Linda T. Wynn, 1996.

*St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church. Written by Jamye C. Williams, 1988.

Williams, Dogan. "Church History" Paper presented at the 1981 Conference.

Desegregation

*Conklin, Paul K. "Reflections on the 1960 Lawson Case at Vanderbilt." Paper presented at the 1986 Conference.

Doss, Sharon. "History of Civil Rights Movements in Tennessee, 1865-1975." Paper presented at the 1981 Conference.

*Fleming, Cynthia G. "The Knoxville Sit-Ins: June-August, 1960. Paper presented at the 1986 Conference.

*Nashville's 1905 Streetcar Boycott. Written by Linda T. Wynn 1995.

*Nashville Sit-Ins. Written by Linda T. Wynn, 1992.

Smith, Jessie C. "A Report on the Lecture/Exhibit Series, 'I've Been to the Mountain Top': A Civil Rights Legacy." Paper presented at the 1986 Conference.

Wynn, Linda T. "The Dawning of a New Day: The Nashville Sit-Ins." Paper presented at the 1986 Conference.

_________. "The 1905 Black Streetcar Boycott in Nashville." Paper presented at the 1983 Conference.

Education

Beneby, Fred. "The Bradley Academy in Murfreesboro's Black Community." Paper presented at the 1994 Conference.

*Chavis ' Jordan D. "History of the Band and Instrumental Music Program in the Black Public Schools of Nashville and Davidson County." Paper presented at the 1985 Conference.

*Davis, Louise. "Oral History: A Conversation with Mrs. James A. Myers, former Director of Fisk Jubilee Singers." Paper presented at the 1989 Conference.

*Fisk University, 1866- Written by Reavis L. Mitchell and Haywood Farrar, 1984.

*Ford-High, Louchrisa. "The Wonders of Education, Helping My Children to Learn: Negro Dolls. " Paper presented at the 1995 Conference.

*Goodstein, Anita S. "Septima Clark and the Highlander School." Paper presented at the 1990 Conference.

*Granberry, Dorothy. Haywood County's Black Education History: "Striving to Teach the Children." Paper presented at the 1991 Conference.

*Historic Jubilee Hall of Fisk University. Written by Reavis T. Mitchell, 1996.

*Jarmon, Laura C. "Arbors to Bricks: African American Education in Rutherford County, 1880-1966." Paper presented at the 1995 Conference.

*Jones, Oddie B. "History of Haynes High School for African Americans in Davidson County." Paper presented at the 1997 Conference.

*Kaplan, Carol "Nashville Negro Carnegie Library." Paper presented at the 1997 Conference.

*Knoxville College (1875). Written by Robert J. Booker, 1996.

Leckrone, Kathleen. "Teaching Afro-American Literature in Local Curricula." Paper presented at the 1983 Conference.

LeMoyne-Owen College (1871). Written by Perre M. Magness, 1996.

*Lewis, Dwight. "Early Tennessee State University Athletics." Paper presented at the 1985 Conference.

Lovett, Bobby L. "Extended Teachers Institute in Afro-American History." Paper presented at the 1981 Conference.

*Meharry Medical College, 1876- Written by Reavis L. Mitchell, 1985.

Mitchell, Reavis L. "Black Architectural History: Renovations at Fisk University." Paper presented at the 1992 Conference.

*Pearl School, 1883-1983. Written by Linda T. Wynn, 1993.

*Peebles, James W. "The History of Jewell Academy and Seminary, 1948-1962." Paper presented at the 1993 Conference.

*Powell, Ruth Marie. "The History of Roger Williams University." Paper presented at the 1984 Conference.

*Rogers Williams University, 1864. Written by Bobby L. Lovett, 1984.

*Summerville, James. "Meharry Medical College and the Movement Years." Paper presented at the 1986 Conference.

Temple,Edward. "History of Women's Track and Field and the Tigerbelles at Tennessee State University, Part I." Paper presented at the 1992 Conference.

____________. "History of Women's Track and Field and the Tigerbelles at Tennessee State University, Part II." Paper presented at the 1993 Conference.

*Tennessee State University, 1912-1984. Written by Lois C. McDougald and Bobby L. Lovett, 1984.

*Walden University, 1865-1925. Written by Bobby L. Lovett, 1985.

Workshop for Metro School Teachers and Interested Persons. Presented at the 1994 Conference.

Food

Egerton, John. "Southern Soul Food." Paper presented at the 1988 Conference.

Hargreaves, Margaret. "Influence on Food from Slavery until Now." Paper presented at the 1989 Conference.

Genealogy

*Baker, John. "The Search for My African Ancestry in Robertson County." Paper  presented at the 1994 Conference.

*Bragg, Emma W. "Some Family Reminiscences of a Native Nashville Septuagenarian." Paper presented at the 1987 Conference.

Morton-Young, Tommie. "The African American Genealogy and Historical Society of Nashville-DavidsonCounty: Promoting Black Family History." Paper presented at the 1996 Conference.

*Sharifa, Shauneille Quimmah. "An Unwritten Segment from the Past." Paper presented at the 1987 Conference.

History

*Blacks in the Union Army of Tennessee, 1861-1866. Written by Bobby L. Lovett, 1995.

*The Blue Triangle YWCA. Written by Carrie R. Hull and Linda T. Wynn, 1988.

Eberling, May Dean. "Fort Negley Restoration. " Paper presented at the 1981 Conference.

Ensley, Regina. "Youthgrant, Afro-American History of Nashville, 1870-1930." Paper presented at the 1981 Conference.

*Frankie J. Pierce and the Tennessee Vocational School for Colored Girls. Written by Virginia Edmondson, 1985.

Gaston, Juanita. "Cameron-Trimble Bottom Neighborhood Rehabilitation Project." Paper presented at the 1981 Conference.

*Gordon, H. Richard. "Rare Film Footage on Nashville During the 1950s."  Presented at the 1989 Conference. (Narration of film only in Special Collections).

Harris, Forrest. "The Collection of Kelly Miller Smith Papers." Presented at the 1990 Conference.

*Insignares, Harriette. "Josephine Holloway: Founder of Black Middle Tennessee Girl Scouts." Paper presented at the 1991 Conference.

_____________________. "Storytelling in the African-American Tradition." Presented at the 1990 Conference.

*Jones, James B., Jr. "Black Historical Markers in Tennessee." Paper presented at the 1989 Conference.

*Lovett ' Bobby L. "Fort Negley: Blacks in Nashville's Civil War History." Paper presented at the 1993 Conference.

*McCord, Clinton "Butch". "The Negro Baseball Leagues in Nashville and America." Paper presented at the 1991 Conference.

*Mount Ararat and Greenwood Cemeteries. Written by Bobby L. Lovett, 1995.

*Nashville's Fort Negley. Written by Bobby L. Lovett, 1993.

Otey, Inman. "Jefferson Street Project." Paper presented at the 1981 Conference.

*Peterson, Harriet A. "The 14th Amendment and Black Americans: A Matter of Interpretation." Paper presented at the 1987 Conference.

*Phillips, Paul David. "The Interracial Impact of Marshall Keeble, Black Evangelist, 1878-1968." Paper presented at the 1985 Conference.

*Pursley, Vallie P. "History of the Conference on Afro-Americans. Paper presented at the 1991 Conference.

Searcy, Walter. "Black Sites Identification Project." Paper presented at the 1981 Conference.

Smith, Jessie C. "The Harlem Renaissance Remembered." Paper presented at the 1981 Conference.

_______________. "Images in Black Artifacts: Negative and Positive." Paper presented at the 1981 Conference.

_______________."Profiles of Selected African-American Women in Tennessee." Paper presented at the 1993 Conference.

Smith, Robert. "History of the Napier-Looby Bar Association in Middle Tennessee." A paper presented at the 1992 Conference.

*Thompson, A. Alphonse. "Some Aspects and Characteristics of Black Leadership in Nashville History." Paper presented at the 1985 Conference.

Walker, Randolph. "The Literary Metamorphosis of Sutton E. Griggs." Paper presented at the 1990 Conference.

Watson, Griff. "World War I Goldstar Records: A Source of AfroAmerican History." Paper presented-at the 1994 Conference.

Wolfe, Charles. "Thomas Talley, Black Folklorist: The Nashville Connection." Paper presented at the 1992 Conference.

Wynn, Linda. "Funding Sources for Historical Projects." Paper presented at the 1981 Conference.

*___________."The Historical Markers' Program in Tennessee." Paper presented at the 1991 Conference.

Lynching

*McKissack, Gloria H. "Racial Violence: Lynchings in the 1890' s. Paper presented at the 1986 Conference.

Media

Brown, Karen. "Black Newspapers in Nashville and Tennessee." Paper presented at the 1983 Conference.

Howell, Darah M. "The Greater Fisk Herald and the Transformation in Culture, 1925-1931." Papers presented at the 1990 Conference.

Music

*Fisk Jubilee Singers. Written by Kay Beasley, 1990.

Francis, Cleve. "African Americans in the Country Music

Business." Paper presented at the 1995 Conference.

Johnson, C. Dewitt. "Black Musicians in Music City USA--An

Ethnographic Profile." Paper presented at the 1986 Conference.

McCord, Edith. The Blues Music in Nashville. " Paper presented at 1994 Conference.

*Seroff, Doug. "Black Gospel Music: Performance and Introduction of the FAIRFIELD FOUR." Paper and performance at the 1989 Conference.

_____________. "Some Aspects of Black Religious Music History." An Audio-Visual presentation at the 1988 Conference.

Politics

*Guess, Francis. "Good Jelly Jones: Black Entrepreneur and Grassroots Politician." Paper presented at the 1989 Conference.

Wells, Cynthia. "Bluff City, Tennessee: An Experience in Black Politics." Paper presented at the 1986 Conference.

Slavery

McDougald, Lois C., comp. "Free Negro Property Owners/Occupation Davidson County, Tennessee, 1860." Distributed at the 1988 Conference.

*McKee, Larry. "Slave Archaeology at the Hermitage. Paper presented at the 1991 Conference.

Smith, Samuel D. "Archaeology of Slavery: Some Tennessee Examples." Paper presented at the 1987 Conference.

*The Wessyngton Plantation: A Piece of Black History. Written by John Baker, 1996.

Social Conditions

Booker, Robert J. "The Culture and the History of Blacks in Knoxville." Paper presented at the 1996 Conference.

Goodstein, Anita S. "Black History in Nashville, 1825-1860." Paper presented at the 1988 Conference.

Lockett, Patricia. "The Black History Book Committee in Wilson County. Paper presented at the 1996 Conference.

Lovett, Bobby L. "The Afro-American History of Nashville,

1779-1940." Paper presented at the 1985 Conference.

Mackey, Warren C. "A History of Afro-Americans in Chattanooga, 1880-1930." Paper presented at the 1987 Conference.

Mills, Mary. "The African American Heritage Society of Franklin and Williamson County." Paper presented at the 1996 Conference.

*Ridley, May Alice. "Afro-American in Antebellum and Civil War: Nashville." Paper presented at the 1984 Conference.

Sharon E. Hull, Compiler

Tennessee State University Library