Title	Craigs Chapel AME Zion Church: 1914 school photo
Date	1914
Property name	Craigs Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Property type	Church
National Register Reference	01000256 listed March 12, 2001
Community Name	Greenback, Loudon County, TN
Latitude/Longitude	35.649559,-84.172706
Description	Copy of a black and white photograph of a 1914 school group; about 25 African Americans; names written on the photo
Historical Notes	The Craigs Chapel AME Zion Church is an example of Jim Crow era communities in which churches had different but related buildings, structures, and sites existing on either the church lot or on immediately adjacent lots. Craigs Chapel has included three critical elements of African American communities, church, cemetery and school. The church was constructed in 1896 and the original school three years later. The church expanded its service to the African American community with the incorporation of the cemetery in 1903. An original school building was physically connected to the church after construction of WPA schools for both whites and blacks in Loudon County c. 1940.
Collection Name	African American Churches
Subject-LCSH	African American churches African American schools -- Tennessee
Subject-TGM	Group portraits School children
Type	Still image
Format	jpeg2000
Genre	Photograph
Medium	Paper
Extent	11 x 8.5 in.
Copyright status	Copyright of the creator
Conditions for use	Credit Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University Reproduction permitted for non-profit educational and research purposes only
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Contributing Institution	Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University
Source file	CraigsChapel008