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The Tennessee Children's Home Society was chartered as a non-profit corporation in 1897. [1] In 1913, the Secretary of State granted the society a second charter. [1] The Society received community support from organizations that supported its mission of "the support, maintenance, care, and welfare of white children under seven years of age admitted to [its] custody."
The number of children served grew throughout the decade. In late 1982, the name of the Home was changed to Tennessee Children's Home. The institutional approach was replaced with family-oriented group homes for the children, with each house led by married couples in an effort to provide a homelike, non-institutional setting.
A local studio photographer, Lawrence Beitler, took a photograph of the dead men hanging from a tree surrounded by the large lynch mob; [5] the crowd was estimated at 5,000 and included women and children. He sold thousands of copies of the photograph in the next ten days. [6]
4 Children for Sale is a photograph that depicts a mother, Lucille Chalifoux, hiding her head as her four children sit unwittingly beneath a sign that offers all of them for sale. [2] The photo was first published by the Vidette-Messenger of Valparaiso, Indiana on August 5, 1948 and was circulated widely during the following week.
v. t. e. Child-selling is the practice of selling children, usually by parents, legal guardians, or subsequent custodians, including adoption agencies, orphanages and Mother and Baby Homes. Where the subsequent relationship with the child is essentially non-exploitative, it is usually the case that purpose of child-selling was to permit adoption .
The Mansfield Cheatham House is a historic mansion in Springfield, Tennessee, U.S.. History. The house was built for Richard Cheatham and his wife, Susan Sanders, circa 1833. It was inherited by their son, Edward Saunders Cheatham. After he died, it was inherited by his brother, Richard Boone Cheatham.
Freedom Hall Civic Center. / 36.32444°N 82.37500°W / 36.32444; -82.37500. Freedom Hall Civic Center is a multi-purpose arena in Johnson City, Tennessee. [ 2] Starting in 2014, it became the basketball venue for East Tennessee State University. [ 3]
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) Tent City, also called Freedom Village, was an encampment outside of Memphis in Fayette County, Tennessee for African Americans who were evicted from their homes and blacklisted from buying amenities as retaliation for registering to vote during the Civil Rights Movement. It began in 1960 and lasted about two years.