Mary Fields was born in Hickman County, Tennessee to enslaved parents, she was emancipated after the Civil War.

Former slave Gardner rose to prominence after the war as a minister, farmer and philanthropist.

Nathan ‘Nearest’ Green was born in 1820, approximately 45 years before the end of the Civil War. He was an enslaved man who was known...

After the American Civil War, Jack bought Call's still and hired Nearest, now a free man, to become Jack Daniel's first Master Distiller.

James Thomas Bridgeforth was educated in Giles County, Tennessee and at A&I State College. In the early 1900's he became interested in secur

African American business leader in cosmetology and civil rights activist Eva Lowery Bowman was born to William and Alice Lowery in Nashvill

Shelbyville's historic Gilliland House is a unique vernacular stone building completed by James S. "Jim" Gilliland.

Few folk artists can claim the widespread recognition by the world of fine art that William Edmondson achieved during his lifetime.

Entrepreneur and philanthropist Cal Johnson was born to Cupid and Harriet Johnson in Knoxville on October 14, 1844. The Johnson family, slav

One of the most influential blues artists of the twentieth century, Leroy Carr was born in Nashville around 1905.