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• Tense Times and Cultural Developments
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Honored People

• Albert A. Gore, Jr.
• Albert Arnold Gore, Sr.
• Alex Murray Palmer Haley
• Alvin C. York
• Andrew Jackson
• Andrew Johnson
• Asahel Huntington Patch
• Austin Peay
• Carey Estes Kefauver
• Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins
• Cordell Hull
• Dave Macon
• David "Davy" Crockett
• Dinah Shore
• Dolly Parton
• Dorothy Dix (Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer)
• Elvis Presley
• Horace Harmon Lurton
• Howard H. Baker, Jr.
• James Agee
• James K. Polk
• John Sevier
• Johnny Cash
• Loretta Lynn
• Minnie Pearl
• Pat Head Summitt
• Robert Penn Warren
• Roy Claxton Acuff
• Sam Houston
• Sequoyah
• Shelby Foote
• Tennessee Ernie Ford
• William Blount
• William Christopher, "W.C." Handy
• William Robert Anderson
• Wilma G. Rudolph

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• Grand Ole Opry
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• Religion
• St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
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• The Southern Renascence
• Tobacco
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• Rock and Roll

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