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Haywood County, Tennessee
Haywood County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee, in the region known as West Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,864. Its county seat and largest city is Brownsville. It is one of only two remaining counties in Tennessee, along with Shelby County, with a majority African-American population. History Haywood County was created from part of Madison County in 1823–24, and was named for Tennessee judge and historian John Haywood. The state legislature designated Brownsville as the county seat. Haywood County was later reduced in size, both in 1835 when a western portion was ceded to help form Lauderdale County, and in 1870 when all Haywood County territory north of the Forked Deer River, save one small district, was given to the newly formed Crockett County. For much of the county's history, agriculture, primarily cotton production, was the basis of the local economy, as it was throughout western Tennessee. Before the Civil War, this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Haywood (judge)
John Haywood (1762–1826) was an American jurist and historian known as "the Father of Tennessee History." Biography Haywood was born in Halifax County, North Carolina on March 16, 1762, the son of Egbert Haywood, a Patriot officer during the American Revolutionary War. Despite limited educational opportunities on the colonial frontier, Haywood taught himself law and in later life became widely read. Admitted to the bar in 1786, he quickly gained a reputation as one of the best legal minds in the state. Haywood was appointed as the North Carolina Attorney General from 1791 to 1794. In 1794, Haywood was appointed to the bench of the Superior Court of North Carolina, but resigned in 1800 to defend a longtime friend, North Carolina Secretary of State James Glasgow, who, along with several other prominent citizens, had been charged with land warrant fraud. This scandal proved so unpopular that Haywood's own reputation was injured in defending Glasgow. Following the trial in which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emancipation
Emancipation generally means to free a person from a previous restraint or legal disability. More broadly, it is also used for efforts to procure Economic, social and cultural rights, economic and social rights, civil and political rights, political rights or Egalitarianism, equality, often for a specifically disenfranchised group, or more generally, in discussion of many matters. Among others, Karl Marx discussed political emancipation in his 1844 essay "On the Jewish Question", although often in addition to (or in contrast with) the term ''human emancipation''. Marx's views of political emancipation in this work were summarized by one writer as entailing "equal status of individual citizens in relation to the state, equality before the law, regardless of religion, property, or other 'private' characteristics of individual people." "Political emancipation" as a phrase is less common in modern usage, especially outside academic, foreign or activist contexts. However, simila ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatchie National Wildlife Refuge
Hatchie National Wildlife Refuge is an area of swampy bottomland consisting of a portion of the floodplain of the Hatchie River in West Tennessee, covering 11,556 acres (4,677 ha) in southern Haywood County. It is a rich environment for aquatic life and waterfowl. The refuge is bisected by Interstate 40 and hence passed through by almost all motor vehicle traffic between Nashville Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and List of municipalities in Tennessee, most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the county seat, seat of Davidson County, Tennessee, Davidson County in Middle Tennessee, locat ... and Memphis. Wildlife includes Fish, Snakes, and Mammals. ReferencesRefuge website External links * Protected areas of Haywood County, Tennessee National Wildlife Refuges in Tennessee Floodplains of the United States Wetlands of Tennessee Landforms of Haywood County, Tennessee Landforms of Hardeman County, Tennessee 1964 establishments in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tipton County, Tennessee
Tipton County is a County (United States), county located on the western end of the U.S. state of Tennessee, in the Mississippi Delta region. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 60,970. Its county seat is Covington, Tennessee, Covington. Tipton County, founded in 1823, is part of the Memphis metropolitan area, Memphis, TN-MS-AR Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Indian cultures From about 10,000 Common Era, BCE, Paleo-Indians and later Archaic period in the Americas, Archaic-Indians lived as communities of hunter-gatherers in the area that covers the modern day southern United States. From approximately 800 Common Era, CE to 1600 CE, the Mississippi Delta was populated by tribes of the Mississippian culture, a Mound builder (people), mound-building Native Americans in the United States, Native American people who had developed in the late Woodland period, Woodland Indian period. While there were chiefdoms and centers along the Mississippi an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fayette County, Tennessee
Fayette County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 41,990. Its county seat is Somerville. The county was named after the Marquis de la Fayette, French hero of the American Revolution. A part of the Memphis, TN-MS-AR Metropolitan Statistical Area, Fayette County is culturally alike to the Mississippi Delta and was a major area of cotton plantations dependent on slave labor in the nineteenth century. History Fayette County was established by Tennessee General Assembly in 1824 from the neighboring counties of Shelby and Hardeman. The same year, Somerville was selected as its county seat. The first churches in the county were the First Presbyterian Church in Somerville, established in 1829, and Immanuel Parish, established in 1832. Herb Parsons 1908–1959) of Somerville, Tennessee, was Winchester's "Showman Shooter" for 30 years. Following the emancipation of slaves on plantations, many of Fayette County's African ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardeman County, Tennessee
Hardeman County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,462. Its county seat is Bolivar. History Hardeman County was created by the Tennessee General Assembly in 1823 from parts of Hardin County and "Indian lands." It is named for Thomas J. Hardeman (1788-1854), a veteran of the Creek War and the War of 1812 and a prominent figure in the fight for Texas independence. He served as a congressman in the Republic of Texas, and was also the father of Confederate brigadier general William Polk Hardeman. Settlers began arriving in the area that is now Hardeman County in 1819, following a treaty with the Chickasaw allowing settlement in West Tennessee signed on October 19, 1818. Among these earliest settlers were the county's namesame Thomas Hardeman and Ezekiel Polk, the paternal grandfather of president James K. Polk. Thereafter, further settlers arrived from Middle Tennessee, Alabama, North and South Carolina, and Virgini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disfranchisement After Reconstruction Era
Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction era in the United States, especially in the Southern United States, was based on a series of laws, new constitutions, and practices in the South that were deliberately used to prevent black citizens from registering to vote and voting. These measures were enacted by the former Confederate states at the turn of the 20th century. Efforts were also made in Maryland, Kentucky, and Oklahoma. Their actions were designed to thwart the objective of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1870, which prohibited states from depriving voters of their voting rights based on race. The laws were frequently written in ways to be ostensibly non-racial on paper (and thus not violate the Fifteenth Amendment), but were implemented in ways that selectively suppressed black voters apart from other voters. In the 1870s, white racists had used violence by domestic terrorism groups (such as the Ku Klux Klan), as well as fraud, to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz (activist), Henry Moskowitz. Over the years, leaders of the organization have included Thurgood Marshall and Roy Wilkins. The NAACP is the largest and oldest civil rights group in America. Its mission in the 21st century is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination". NAACP initiatives include political lobbying, publicity efforts, and litigation strategies developed by its legal team. The group enlarged its mission in the late 20th century by considering issues such as police misconduct, the status of black foreign refugees and questions of economic dev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatchie River
The Hatchie River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed June 3, 2011 river in northern Mississippi and southwestern Tennessee. It is of considerable geographic, culture, cultural, and historic significance. In large measure, this is because it is the only major river of West Tennessee that has never been impounded, River engineering#Channelization, channelized, or otherwise modified by human activity to any major degree, although several of its tributaries have. Its environs are indicative of what much of West Tennessee must have resembled prior to the time of Ethnic groups in Europe, European settlement in early 19th century. The Hatchie rises in the northern part of Union County, Mississippi and travels through Tippah County, Mississippi, Tippah and Alcorn County, Mississippi, Alcorn counties before crossing into Hardeman County, Tennessee, near the community of Pocahontas, Tennessee, Pocahontas. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elbert Williams
Elbert Williams (October 15, 1908 – June 20, 1940) was an African-American civil rights leader from Brownsville, Tennessee who was killed by unknown persons.Bond, J. Z. (2011). Race, place, and family: Narratives of the civil rights movement in brownsville, tennessee, and the nation (Order No. 3489853).Joiner, L. L. (2017). "Justice for Elbert Williams." ''Crisis'' (15591573), 124(2), 42. He was one of the five charter members of the NAACP branch in Brownsville.Emison, J. (2019, March 16). Elbert Williams (1908–1940) Killed in 1940, Williams is the first known NAACP member to be lynched for his civil rights activities.Sullivan, P. (2010). '' 'Lift every voice' The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: New Press. No prosecution was undertaken at the time by state or federal authorities because of lack of evidence, although law enforcement officials were reportedly complicit in Williams's arrest and release to persons unknown. Under a 2018 civil rights c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
