To care for the sick and bury the dead : African American lodges and cemeteries in Tennessee /

To care for the sick and bury the dead : African American lodges and cemeteries in Tennessee /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gardner, Leigh Ann (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
African American fraternal organizations > Tennessee > History > 19th century.
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.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.