Tennessee
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
The segregation decisions : papers read at a session of the twenty-first annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Memphis Tennessee, November 10, 1955, 1956
William Faulkner, Benjamin Mays, Cecil Sims. Introduction by Bell Wiley. Significant because of essay by Faulkner, but Benjamin Mays is often called the spiritual mentor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Important document showing how prominent Southerners viewed early Court decisions concerning desegregation and hoe they viewed the future. (description by seller)
William Dean Mathes Scrapbook,
William W. Knight Collection
William W. Knight was born around 1829 in what is today Berrien County, Ga. He married Mary E. Carroll in 1855 and they conceived a daughter, Lillian Melissa, on March 22, 1862.
Knight was the son of Levi Knight and Ann Clements/Herrin.
He enlisted in the army on October 1, 1861. Knight served in the 29th GA infantry in company K.
He was 6 feet in height, with dark hair and blue eyes.
He died December 27, 1863.