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Bailey, Bill, Ed. Black heritage : Memphis & the Mid-South . Memphis, Tenn. : The Commericial appeal, Newspaper in the Classroom Program, 1981.
Berkeley, Kathleen Christine. Like a plague of locust : immigration and social change in Memphis, Tennessee, 1850-1880. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1993, c1980.
Blank, Linda Cornish. The evolution of Beale Street / Linda Cornish Blank. 1990.
Blankinship, Gary R. The Commercial appeal's attack on the Ku Klux Klan, 1921-1925 [by] Gary R. Blankinship. [Memphis] 1975.
Bolton, Dickens and Company. Bolton, Dickens & Co. record of slaves, 1856-58 microform Memphis, Tenn. : Bolton, Dickens & Co., 1856-1858.
Church, Roberta. Nineteenth century Memphis families of color, 1850-1900 / by Roberta Church and Ronald Walter ; Charles W. Crawford, editor. Memphis, Tenn. : printed by Murdock Print. Co., c1987.
Church, Roberta. Facts about Beale Street, 1849-1870 and occupations of women, 1855-1870, Memphis, Tennessee . [Memphis, Tenn. : R. Church], 1994.
Directory [of] 1956-57 [of] Memphis and Shelby County colored churches / T.J. Johnson, editor. Memphis : Register Publications, c1956.
Dixon, Doris R. Records of the Memphis Sub-District of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands . Memphis, Tenn. : History Department, Memphis/Shelby County Public Library and Information Center, 2002.
Francis, Elizabeth Wheeler. An alphabetical list of burials in Elmwood cemetery, Memphis, Tenn. 1853-1859; with supplements covering A - B, 1860-1865, and slaveholders represented by burials in the colored section, 1853-1859. [n.p., 1939]
Fuller, Thomas Oscar. The story of the church life among Negroes in Memphis, Tennessee. for students and workers, 1900-1938, by T.O. Fuller. Memphis, Tenn. [s.n.] [c1938].
Goings, Kenneth W. "Unhidden" transcripts : Memphis and African American agency, 1862-1920. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Perilodicals Press, 1995.
Hamilton, Green Polonius. The bright side of Memphis; a compendium of information concerning the colored people of Memphis, Tennessee, showing their achievements in business, industrial and professional life and including articles of general interest on the race. Memphis, 1908.
Honey, Michael K. Labor and civil rights in the South : the industrial labor movement and black workers in Memphis, 1920-1945 / by Michael Keith Honey. 1987.
Johnson, T. J. Ed. A Classified directory of Memphis and Shelby County. Memphis, Tenn.: Negro Chamber of Commerce, c.1941.
Qualls, J. Winfield. The beginning and early history of the Lemoyne School at Memphis, 1871-1874 / by J. Winfield Qualls. 1952.
Stanton, William Mortimer. The Irish of Memphis. Jackson, Tenn., McCowat-Mercer Press, 1952.
Tucker, David M. Black pastors and leaders : Memphis, 1819-1972. [Memphis] : Memphis State University Press, [1975].
Tucker, David M.. Ida Wells-Barnett and the Memphis lynchings . [Memphis : Tucker, 1982]
Tucker, David M. Lieutenant Lee of Beale Street. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1971.
(Biography of the Mississippi-born Lee, who served in World War I as one of the Army's first Negro lieutenants, went on to distinguish himself in a long career in insurance in Memphis, and served as a national Republican leader in the 1940s and 1950s. Provided is perspective on more than fifty years of social history of Memphis and the black middle class).Uselton, Darrell B. Irish Immigration and Settlement in Memphis, Tennessee: 1820s-1860s. West Tennessee Historical Society Papers ,50 (Dec. 1996), 115-29. (Available here: http://register.shelby.tn.us/wths/ )
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Index to bounty and pension receipts for veterans of the United States colored troops, Memphis Freedmen's Bureau, 1867-1871 / indexed by Doris G. Dixon. Memphis, Tenn. : History Department, Memphis and Shelby County Public Library and Information Center, 2003.
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Index to Memphis Freedmen's Bureau marriages, 1864-1865 Memphis, Tenn. : Memphis and Shelby County Public Library and Information Center, 1997.
Webb, Arthur L. Index to the 1830, 1840, 1850 and 1860 Censuses indicating free African Americans in Shelby County Tennessee / transcribed and indexed by Arthur L. Webb. Memphis, Tenn. : A.L. Webb, 1990.
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Battersby, William John. The Christian Brothers in Memphis; a chronicle of one hundred years, 1871-1971, by W. J. Battersby. [Memphis, Christian Brothers College, 1971]
Bender, Melvin E. "A small school with a big heart: the history of Central Baptist 1952-1992. Melvin E. Bender, 1997.
Cooper, Waller Raymond. Southwestern at Memphis, 1848-1948. Richmond: John Knox Press, 1949.
Durham, Louise. The Christine story. 80th anniversary, Market Street School, Memphis, Tennessee. 1872-1952. [S.l., s.n., 1952?]
Hamilton, Margaret, Sister. History of Saint Agnes Academy, Memphis, Tennessee, 1851-1926 / [M. Hamilton].[Memphis? : s.n., 1926]
Hamner III, James Edward. The University of Tennessee, Memphis, 75th anniversary : medical accomplishments Memphis, Tenn. : University of Tennessee, Memphis, 198_.
Harkins, John E.. MUS century book: Memphis University school, 1893-1993: an illustrated history / by John E. Harkins ; edited by Georgia S. Harkins and Norman S. Thompson. Little Rock, Ark. : August House, 1993.
LaPointe, Patricia M. The Memphis Crippled Children's Hospital [and] School, 1917-1982. [Memphis, Tenn.] : Memphis Shelby County Public Library & Information Center, Memphis & Shelby County Room, 1986.
Mitchell, Arelya H. , editor. Celebrating 100 years of the Tiger : Saluting Manassas High School (1899-1999) Memphis, Tn : The Mid-South Tribune, 1999.
Stathis, John Chris. The establishment and early development of the West Tennessee State Normal School, 1909-1914 / John Chris Stathis. [Memphis : Stathis], 1951.
Qualls, J. Winfield. The beginning and early history of the Lemoyne School at Memphis, 1871-1874 / by J. Winfield Qualls. 1952.
Walk, Joe. History of Treadwell School / by Joe Walk. [Memphis, Tenn.] : J. Walk, 1994.
Walk, Joe. Supplement to the histories of Treadwell School and Highland Heights, now including High Point Terrace / by Joe Walk. [Memphis, Tenn.] : J. Walk, 1998.
Wood, Bennett. Rhodes 150 (1848-1998): A Sesquicentennial Yearbook. Little Rock, AR: August House Publishers, 1998.
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Avery, Martha Jane Peeples. Paddy Meagher's ordinary and the Bell Tavern, Memphis, Tennessee / [by Martha Jane Peeples Avery ; edited by David Bowman ; ill. by Phillip Morris.] [Memphis] : Avery, c1979.
Building a dream : the story of Methodist Hospitals of Memphis. [Memphis?] : Methodist Health Systems, c1986.
Caldwell, Dayna. The Crump home : a brief history / Dayna Caldwell. Memphis : Caldwell, 1979.
Caruthers, James Carter. The story of the Memphis Auditorium. Memphis : Memphis Auditorium and Market House, 1926.
Clay, Floyd M. A Century on the Mississippi: A History of the Memphis District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 1876-1976. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Memphis District, Memphis, TN, 1976.
Davies-Rodgers, Ellen. Turns again home : life on an old Tennessee plantation trespassed by progress / by Ellen Davies-Rodgers. Brunswick, Tenn. : The Plantation Press, Davies Plantation, c1992.
Faragher, Scott. The Peabody Hotel / Scott Faragher and Katherine Harrington. Charleston, SC : Arcadia, c2002.
Gandy, Joan W. and Thomas H. Gandy. The Mississippi Steamboat Era in Historic Photographs: Natchez to New Orleans 1870-1920. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1987.
Lape, Sheilah. The Galloway House : a brief history / Sheilah Lape. [Memphis : Lape].
LaPointe, Patricia M. The Memphis Crippled Children's Hospital [and] School, 1917-1982. [Memphis, Tenn.] : Memphis Shelby County Public Library & Information Center, Memphis & Shelby County Room, 1986.
Magness, Perre. Elmwood 2002 : in the shadows of the elms / by Perre Magness ; photographs by Murray Riss ; introduction by Shelby Foote. Memphis, Tenn. : Elmwood Cemetery, c2001.
Priddy, Clifford B. The great bridge of Memphis : a symbol of Southern development and national reconciliation / [by] Clifford B. Priddy. C.B. Prissy, [Memphis, Tenn. : 1999].
Roudebush, Gladys Jones-Williams. Historic Front street, an outline. [Memphis] 1964.
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Allensworth, Jeannie L. Confederate veterans, a list of the Confederate veterans who were ancestors of the members of the General Forrest Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Memphis, 1960.
Bolton, Dickens and Company. Bolton, Dickens & Co. record of slaves, 1856-58 microform Memphis, Tenn. : Bolton, Dickens & Co., 1856-1858.
Cothern, John W. Confederates of Elmwood / Bowie, Md. : Heritage Books, Inc., 2001.
Edmondson, Belle, 1840-1873. A lost heroine of the Confederacy : the diaries and letters of Belle Edmondson / edited by Loretta and William Galbraith. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1990.
Dixon, Doris R. Records of the Memphis Sub-District of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands / [indexed by] Betty Blaylock. Memphis, Tenn. : History Department, Memphis/Shelby County Public Library and Information Center, 2002.
Elmwood Cemetery (Memphis, Tenn.) List of Confederate soldiers buried in Soldiers' Rest, Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee. Copied by Mr. and Mrs. Byron Hyde. [Memphis] 1961.
Halley, Robert Ambrose. A rebel newspaper's war story : being a narrative of the war history of the Memphis appeal. [S.l. : s.n.], 1903. Note: Reprinted from the American historical magazine for April, 1903.
Hooper, Ernest Walter. Memphis, Tennessee, Federal occupation and reconstruction, 1862-1870 / by Ernest Walter Hooper. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Hooper, 1957.
Jackson, Rex T. The Sultana Saga: The Titanic of the Mississippi (2003).
Mathes, J. Harvey The Old Guard in Gray. Researches in the Annals of the Confederate Historical Association. Sketches of Memphis veterans who upheld her standards in the war, and of other Confederate worthies ... [Memphis, Press of S. C. Toof & Co., 1897]
Potter, Jerry O. The Sultana Tragedy: America's Greatest Maritime Disaster. Pelican Publishing Co., Gretna, LA., 1992.
Richert, Bruce C. History of the Chickasaw Guards. [s.l., s.n.] 1954.
Salecker, Gene Eric. Disaster on the Mississippi: the Sultana Explosion, April 27, 1865. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1996.
United Confederate Veterans. Souvenir program, 11th annual reunion, United confederate veterans, May 28th, 29th and 30th. Memphis, Tenn. : [s.n.], 1901.
United Daughters of the Confederacy. Tennessee Division. General Forrest Chapter no. 1194, Memphis. [Yearbook] Memphis. [19uu]
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Index to bounty and pension receipts for veterans of the United States colored troops, Memphis Freedmen's Bureau, 1867-1871 / indexed by Doris G. Dixon. Memphis, Tenn. : History Department, Memphis and Shelby County Public Library and Information Center, 2003.
West, Jean Alexander. Abstracts of names from the Memphis daily appeal, November 7, 1865-May 4, 1866 / abstracted by Jean Alexander West ; computerized and indexed by Mary Louise Nazor. Memphis, Tenn. : J.A. West, [1993?].
Wills, Brian S. A Battle from the Start : The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest. New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperTrade, 1992.
Young, John Preston. The 7th Tennessee Cavalry, C.S.A. - A History. Nashville, Tenn, 1890.
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Allensworth, Jeannie L. Confederate veterans, a list of the Confederate veterans who were ancestors of the members of the General Forrest Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Memphis, 1960.
Barnett, Robert Fulton, 1887- One hundred years of Barnett history [history of Jacob Allen Barnett and Mary Abigail Barnett and all their descendants, 1870-1971. Memphis?, 1972?]
Bishop, Andrew N. Memphis historical memorials / compiled ... by Andrew N. Bishop. Memphis, Tenn. : A.N. Bishop, 1981.
Brunson, Beverly Hyatt. The Hyatt family saga, Memphis, Tennessee / [Beverly Hyatt Brunson]. Irving, Tex. : Brunson, 1981.
Corrigan, Stephen F. Robert Cohn: Memphis immigrant, activist, cotton man, and farmer / by Stephen F. Corrigan. 1989.
Currotto, William F. Clarence Saunders : the man who put the "super" in supermarket / compiled by William F. Currotto. Memphis, TN : W.F. Currotto, [1998?]
Descendants of Tillman P. Bettis: born 1788 - died 1834. [Memphis? Tenn., s.n. 1954?].
McCalla, Thomas Gladney . Journal of Thomas Gladney McCalla, 1880-1896 / copied by Carolyn West Strickland for River City Chapter NSDAR, Millington, Tennessee ; [includes] genealogical records. Millington, Tenn. : River City Chapter NSDAR, 2003.
McDavitt, James Clare. Brief sketch of the Overton family and the John Rice grant. Presented by the Title Department of the Memphis Trust Company. [Memphis, S.C. Toof & co., 1904
Nazor, Mary Louise. Daybook of Dr. Washington Bond, 1837-1847 / abstracted and indexed by Mary Louise Graham Nazor. [Memphis, Tenn.] : M.L. Nazor, 1999.
Nickolds, Mary L. Costillo, 1859-1947. Reminiscences of my childhood and youth / M. L. Nickolds. Walsenberg, Colo. ; 1941.
Riggs, Joseph and Lawrence, Margaret. Everett R. Cook a Memoir. Memphis, Tennessee: Memphis Public Library (1971).
Rudy, Lucy Martin. Memories from Lucy Martin's childhood : a Memphis child / by Lucy Martin Rudy. Covington, Tenn. : Covington Pub. Co., [198-?]
Tucker, David M. (1971). Lieutenant Lee of Beale Street. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1971.
(Biography of the Mississippi-born Lee, who served in World War I as one of the Army's first Negro lieutenants, went on to distinguish himself in a long career in insurance in Memphis, and served as a national Republican leader in the 1940s and 1950s. Provided is perspective on more than fifty years of social history of Memphis and the black middle class).Wills, Brian S. A Battle from the Start : The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest. New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperTrade, 1992.
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