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Greene E. Evans (September 19, 1848 – October 1, 1914) was a porter, groundskeeper, laborer, deputy wharf-master, city councilman, census enumerator, mail agent, teacher, and state legislator in Tennessee. He was enslaved early in his life. He studied at
Fisk University Fisk University is a private historically black liberal arts college in Nashville, Tennessee. It was founded in 1866 and its campus is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1930, Fisk was the first Africa ...
in Nashville and lived in Memphis. A Republican, he served in the Tennessee General Assembly from 1885 to 1887. He attended the 1885 World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans as a representative of the General Assembly and was an honored guest. He was a singer and belonged to a
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. He eventually settled in Chicago with his wife and only child, working as a coal dealer. He lived in
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Shelby County, Tennessee Shelby County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 929,744. It is the largest of the state's List of counties in Tennessee, 95 counties, both in terms of p ...
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African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era More than 1,500 African American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) after passage of the Reconstruction Acts in 1867 and 1868 as well as in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy, disenfranchisement, ...
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African Americans in Tennessee African Americans are the second largest ethnic group in the state of Tennessee after whites, making up 17% of the state's population in 2010. African Americans arrived in the region prior to statehood. They lived both as slaves and as free cit ...


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Evans, Greene 19th-century American slaves Republican Party members of the Tennessee House of Representatives 1848 births 1914 deaths Fisk University alumni Politicians from Memphis, Tennessee African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era Schoolteachers from Tennessee 19th-century American politicians African-American educators African-American state legislators in Tennessee 19th-century American educators Tennessee city council members 20th-century African-American people