Category: Black History
African-American Athlete Tommy Haynes Reigns as Prime Challenger in Track and Field at MTSU
March 9, 2020, Susan Harber, The Daily News Journal I thoroughly enjoy researching living history as much as ancestral narratives. A favorite athlete is an African-American Olympian from MTSU, who forged everlasting history for the college in 1976. Thomas Zarlef Haynes was born July 14, 1952 in Nashville to parents…
True Blue Pioneers: First African American Athletes Honored
La Vergne School (Black), 1877-1884
Salem School (Black)
Rockvale School (Black) 1870-1936
Burnt Hill School (Black), late 1800’s
Tennessee Manual Labor University (Black), 1872
Haynes School (Black), 1909-1946
Hickory Grove School (Black) 1925-1955
African-American Athlete Tommy Haynes Reigns as Prime Challenger in Track and Field at MTSU

March 9, 2020, Susan Harber, The Daily News Journal I thoroughly enjoy researching living history as much as ancestral narratives. A favorite athlete is an African-American Olympian from MTSU, who forged everlasting history for the college in 1976. Thomas Zarlef Haynes was born July 14, 1952 in Nashville to parents…