Mary Harris was a schoolteacher in the state of Tennessee when she married an iron worker named George Jones.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee said cutting health care costs step by step is better than the Democrats' plan.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

On April fourth, the nation's top civil rights leader, the Reverend Martin Luther King,Junior, was shot and killed in Memphis,Tennessee.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

Pat Summitt became head coach of the women's basketball team at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in nineteen seventy-four.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

The next year she starred in a film version of the Tennessee Williams play, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."

VOA: special.2011.04.03

But they needed money to buy the land The money came from the legislatures of Tennessee and North Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

Over the years, he wrote songs that were often different from the traditional country music coming out of Nashville,Tennessee.

VOA: special.2010.12.06

Half the money from the festival will be given to the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee for flood relief.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

In nineteen twenty-five, a young science teacher in the southern state of Tennessee challenged the state's new teaching law.

VOA: special.2011.01.13

Not so in other southern states. In Tennessee,Georgia, and North Carolina, Democrats used threats and violence to win elections.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

Benjamin Hooks was born in Memphis,Tennessee, at a time when the southern city discriminated against blacks in all areas of public life.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

I'm from Livingston,Tennessee. Thanksgiving at my family was always a time when brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles,cousins, we all got together.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

In nineteen thirty-four, Tennessee and North Carolina gave the federal government more than three hundred thousand hectares of land for the park.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

Rounder Records celebrated its fortieth anniversary with a concert in October at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville,Tennessee.

VOA: special.2010.04.19

Barbara Klein explains. On February fifth, the University of Tennessee women's basketball team defeated the University of Georgia.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

Andrew worked hard. He opened his own tailoring business in the eastern part of the state of Tennessee.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

In nineteen ninety-nine, the Children's Defense Fund hired her to build a library on a farm it owns in the state of Tennessee.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

She went on to Tennessee State University where she earned a degree in speech and performing arts.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

Grant wasted no time. He quickly sent troops to fight the Confederate force blocking the Tennessee River.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

It was raining as I got off the train in Nashville, Tennessee - a slow, gray rain.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

This week on our program, we tell about Nashville,Tennessee, and its efforts to recover from severe flooding.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

As he walked out, he told a friend, "I think I can already smell the fresh mountain air of my home in Tennessee."

VOA: special.2010.02.11