During the last week of February 1884, a leap year, nearly 400 African American male Tennesseans met at the Capitol in Nashville. Among these men was a delegation of 49 men from Haywood County, led by Samuel Allen McElwee, Haywood representative in the Tennessee Legislature, and a rising star in the Tennessee republican party. Unfortunately, ...
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