Tennessee's African American Lodges

 In February 2022, my book on African American lodges and cemeteries in Tennessee, To Care for the Sick and Bury the Dead: African American ...

Situated on a hilltop in rural Giles County, very close to the Alabama state line, lies the African American Odd Fellow(s) Cemetery. The age...

Tullahoma, located in Coffee County in Middle Tennessee, was established as a railroad town in the 1850s, and the railroad was key to the to...

  This is the second in a series of posts about African American lodges in some of Tennessee's smaller towns. South Pittsburg is a small...

  This is hopefully the beginning of a series of posts looking at African American lodges in some of Tennessee’s smaller towns.   Clifto...

In November 1916, the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows Lodge No. 2806 purchased an existing cemetery in Springfield, south of downtown. Thi...

I have written before about the Sons and Daughters of Cyrene , the successor group to the Working People's Labor and Art Association (WP...