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 /

"A history of Tennessee's African American lodges and their cemeteries"--

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Gardner, Leigh Ann (Author)
Format:	eBook Electronic
Language:	English
Imprint:	Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2022]
Subjects:	1800-1999 African American cemeteries > Tennessee. African American fraternal organizations > Tennessee > History > 19th century. African American fraternal organizations > Tennessee > History > 20th century. African Americans > Segregation > Tennessee. African Americans > Tennessee > Social life and customs. African American cemeteries African American fraternal organizations African Americans > Segregation African Americans > Social life and customs Tennessee History
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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.