For more than 160 years African American people have lived and worked in this university community and shaped its history . . .
Save Sewanee Black History is an online archive of their lives and experiences on this mountain and a public education program dedicated to ensuring that the people of this community are remembered and honored.

The African American residents of Sewanee have lived principally in two neighborhoods. The St. Mark’s neighborhood is the larger of the two and today bounded on the North and East by the town’s two cemeteries, and on the South by Highway 64. It was home to the Black community’s “mission” Episcopal church, segregated school, and social center, the “Belmont Club.” The smaller neighborhood was next to the Sewanee Military Academy on Tennessee Avenue (now home of the School of Theology and college dormitories) and called “Essie-May” (for SMA).