Seattle / Mason / Washington / D.C. / Memphis / Bakersfield / Nashville / Chicago / /
Event
Person Travel / /
Facility
Davidson County Court / Fisk University / Greenwood Cemetery / Georgia bar / War Memorial Building / Tennessee State Library / Roger Williams University / AFRICAN AMERICAN LEGISLATORS Tennessee State Museum / /
Organization
General Assembly / North Carolina legislature / U.S. Bureau of Audit / House of Representatives / Davidson County Court / County Court / Roger Williams University / Fisk University / Baptist Church / Colored Agricultural and Mechanical Association / U.S. Supreme Court / 38th Tennessee General Assembly / Tennessee legislature / /
Person
John W. Boyd / Isaac F. Norris / Ulysses Grant / William A. Feilds / Samuel A. McElwee / William C. Hodge / Thomas A. Sykes / David F. Rivers / Roy W. Butler / Monroe W. Gooden / Thomas F. Cassels / Leon Howard / Ida B. Wells / Jesse M. H. Graham / SAMPSON KEEBLE / / /
Position
attorney / businessman / President / Speaker / legislator / magistrate / Assistant Attorney General / jailer / wood and coal dealer / coal dealer / respected attorney / revenue collector / wharf-master and city councilman / Clarksville newspaper editor / school teacher / lawyer / deputy wharf-master and city councilman / /
ProvinceOrState
Madison County / Rutherford County / Illinois / SHELBY COUNTY / Davidson County / FAYETTE COUNTY / Tennessee / Oklahoma / HAMILTON COUNTY / MONTGOMERY COUNTY / North Carolina / California / Georgia / /
SAMPSON KEEBLE Tennessee’s first elected African American legislator was born a slave in Rutherford County in[removed]After the Civil War he moved to Nashville, where he worked as a barber, studied law, and served