ISBN:
9780826502537
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 282 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
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23 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.8960768
Keywords:
Geschichte 1865-1930
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Soziales Netzwerk
;
Freimaurerloge
;
Friedhof
;
Schwarze
;
Tennessee
;
African American fraternal organizations / Tennessee / History / 19th century
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African American fraternal organizations / Tennessee / History / 20th century
;
African American cemeteries / Tennessee
;
African Americans / Tennessee / Social life and customs
;
African Americans / Segregation / Tennessee
;
African American cemeteries
;
African American fraternal organizations
;
African Americans / Segregation
;
African Americans / Social life and customs
;
Tennessee
;
1800-1999
;
History
;
Tennessee
;
Schwarze
;
Freimaurerloge
;
Soziales Netzwerk
;
Friedhof
;
Geschichte 1865-1930
Abstract:
"A history of Tennessee's African American lodges and their cemeteries"--
Description / Table of Contents:
A time of change: Tennessee between 1865 and 1930 -- The rise of fraternalism -- Lodge cemeteries in Tennessee -- Importance of fraternalism and benevolence in the African American community -- The importance of funerals and cemeteries in fraternalism -- Remembering the dead: commemoration in lodge cemeteries -- Segregated landscapes -- The silences of the lodge cemeteries: "unmarked" graves and hiding in plain sight -- The persistence of lodges and lodge cemeteries
