Greene County: Bibliography

African American Community-building in Tennessee, 1860-1920

Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Digital Collections

Digital Collections: General

Maps

Newspapers

Other Primary Sources

African American Baptist Annual Reports: Tennessee/Oklahoma. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1997-1998. Microfilm.

 American Religious Ecologies . Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, 2018–.  http://religiousecologies.org .

Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870.

Tennessee Department of Education, 1874-1984, Record Group 273A. Schoolhouse Photos, 1938-1942. Tennessee State Library and Archives. Finding aid:  https://tnsla.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/20619/0 

The Tennessee Historical and Architectural Survey. Tennessee Historical Commission. View the Tennessee Historical Commission Viewer at  https://tnmap.tn.gov/historicalcommission/ .

Secondary Sources

Doughty, Richard Harrison. Greeneville: One Hundred Year Portrait (1775-1875). Greeneville, Tenn.: Doughty, 1975.

New Hope Cemetery: How Its Restoration Brought a Community Together. Greeneville, Tenn.: New Hope Cemetery Association and the Big Spring Master Gardener Association, 2013.

Payne, Cordelia M. “House on the Ridge: Towards Preserving the African American Heritage of Greeneville, Tennessee.” PhD diss. Union Institute and University, 2010.

Thomas, Sue Piper, et al. Rheatown, 1771-1977. Rheatown United Methodist Women, 1977.

West, Carroll Van. " Historic Rural African-American Churches in Tennessee, 1850-1970 ," Multiple Property Submission, National Register of Historic Places, 1999.