Scholarship Project

Judy C. LeForge

"The Nineteenth Century Civil Rights Movement: Black Women and the Church," Journal of the Union Faculty. (October 2010)
"Tennessee's State Colored Conventions, 1865-1866," Tennessee Historical Quarterly. (September 2006)
"State Colored Conventions of Tennessee, 1985-1866," Tennessee Historical Quarterly. (March 2006)
"Tennessee's 1796 Constitution: Preparation for Statehood," Essay in Tennesee: State of the Nation. (September 2005)
"Porter-Leath Children's Center: Memphis, Tennessee's First Orphanage," West Tennesee Historical Society Papers. (February 2005)
"Historical Overview of Lotteries in Tennesee," Journal of the Union Faculty. (October 2004)
"Porter-Leath Children's Center: One Hundred-Fifty Years of Caring," Porter-Leath Children's Center. (March 2000)
"Tennessee's Constitutional Conventions of 1796, 1834 and 1870: A Comparative Summary," West Tennessee Historical Society Papers. (March 1998)

"Alabama's Colored Conventions and the Exodus Movement, 1871-1879," Alabama Review. (March 2010)
"Alabama's Colored Conventions and the Exodus Movement, 1871-1879," Journal of the Union Faculty. (October 2009)

"Tennessee's State Colored Conventions: 1865-1866" (with Fiske University, Ohio Valley History Conference)
Mid-American Conference on History, The University of Memphis, Tennessee Conference of Historians, . (March 2010)
"The Nineteenth Century Black Church and Biblically Inspired Activism" Tennessee Conference of Historians. Cumberland University, (September 2009)
"The Role of Women in the Nineteenth Century Black Church" Ohio Valley History Conference. Western Kentucky University, KY (October 2007)
"Alabama's Colored Conventions and the Exodus Movement" Ohio Valley History Conference. Murray State University, Murray, KY (October 2005)
"Alabama's Colored Conventions and the Exodus Movement" University of West Alabama Black Belt Symposi, AL (April 2005)
"The First Civil Rights Movement: The National Colored Conventions, 1830-1879" Tennessee Conference of Historians. The University of Memphis, (September 2004)
"Tennessee's Constitutional Convention of 1834: A Newspaper Account" Ohio Valley History Conference. Tennessee Technological University, TN (October 1999)

PEW Summer Research Grant - Union University 2007
Endowment Committee Research Grant (Dissertation) 2001
Ruth and Harry Woodbury Graduate Fellowship for the Study of Southern History 2000
Belle McWilliams Scholarship 2000