JONESBOROUGH, TN (WJHL) – This week marks the last full week of February, a month used to observe African American history in the United States.. In honor of black history month, News channel 11 ...

Tennessee was founded in 1796 ... Following the end of the Civil War, Jonesborough was a town dedicated to education for all. Schools for women and Black students were found in Jonesborough ...

But it was an East Tennessean, four decades before the Civil War, who took the extraordinary ... the same scruples respecting a stolen man," Jonesborough's Elihu Embree declared in his self ...