Lucinda Poole Cockrell

Thomas Washington Talley, chemistry professor at Fisk University and pioneer African American folklorist, was born on October 9, 1870, in Shelbyville, Tennessee. One of nine surviving children born to former Mississippi slaves Charles Washington and Lucinda Talley, Thomas grew up…

Charles Keith Wolfe, English professor at Middle Tennessee State University, music scholar, and highly published author, was born on August 14, 1943, in Sedalia, Missouri. The eldest of two boys born to Orville and Dilla Wolfe, Charles grew up in…