James G. Beck

CTL-E-3140 · Person · educator · 1910s–1969

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Knoxville educator and civic leader: Knoxville College's first athletic director, principal of Mitchell Chapel School, head of English at Austin High, Tennessee's first Black postal clerk, and organizer of Knoxville's NAACP chapter (1919). With his wife Ethel B. Beck he built real-estate wealth whose estate helped found the Beck Cultural Exchange Center (1975), named in their honor.

Notes

RELP72 new entity (2026-10-06). Name-collision check clean. Birth year not located in sources; era grounded in documented career and 1969 death. Provisional.

Relationships

• Beck Cultural Exchange Center — founded
  James G. Beck's estate helped establish the Center named for him and his wife.

Referenced by

• Beck Cultural Exchange Center — founded by → this record

Sources

• Knoxville History Project - Beck Cultural Exchange Center
• Knoxville Mercury - Black History Month and Valentine's Day: Celebrate James and Ethel Beck
• East Tennessean - Tennessee transplant: Preserving Black history at The Beck Cultural Exchange Center

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