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
Summary
"A history of Tennessee's African American lodges and their cemeteries"-- Provided by publisher
