A letter from John P. Holtsinger to former President Andrew Johnson inquiring about the acquisition of a plot of land for some of the African American population of Greeneville.
A news article reporting that, for the first time, an African American man, Thompson Clem, has been placed on a jury in a circuit court in Greene County.
Census information Greene County for African American heads of families in 1830, and for Sampson County, North Carolina in 1790. Also African American customer names from the Bright Hope Iron Furnace Store Ledger. The furnace was located in Greene…