Episodes Located: NORFOLK CITY, Virginia in the 1890's

  1. Catholicism and other denominations in the South
    date August 19, 1890 to 1890map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Church/Religious-Activity

    According to Edward Ayers, religion was a Southerner's way of life and they

    often justified or condemned something based on religion. Myriad Christian

    denominations were active in the South including Baptist, Episcopal, Methodist,

    Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant, and Quaker, however; the Baptist denomination claimed

    the largest following. The Norfolk Virginian, like...

  2. Institutional Inequality
    date July 31, 1899 to 1899map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags African-Americans, Education

    The July 31, 1899 report by the superintendent of public schools in Norfolk Virginia illustrated the disparity between white and black students in regards to educational opportunity and proficiency. School Superintendent Richard A. Dobie filed the report, at the request of Norfolk Mayor C. Brooks Johnston. Though the Report was not intended to make any political or social gestures, analysis of the...

  3. Stole a Pocketbook
    date January 5, 1899 to 1899map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    On January 5, 1899 the Virginian-Pilot reported that a young black male in the town of Portsmouth, Virginia had stolen the pocketbook of a lady whose services he was filling. While this petty incident of crime was relatively unnoticed, buried in the middle of the paper, the style in which the brief story was written illustrates the social opinions in this southern city. The story goes on to describe...

  4. Pensioning Confederate Soldiers
    date February 3, 1899 to 1899map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Health/Death, Politics, War

    On February 3, 1899, an aging Confederate soldier from Portsmouth, identifying himself only as C.M.B. wrote to the Virginian-Pilot in response to Senator Marion Butler's proposed bill that would open up federal pension plans to all veterans of the Civil War. Despite a divide among many Southerners about the honor of accepting federal pension, C.M.B. argues, Why then should ex Confederates prefer...

  5. Longshoreman Strike
    date August 31, 1899 to 1899map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags African-Americans, Economy

    Black members of the International Longshoremen's Association quit work until their demand that the United States Shipping Company at Newport News fired all non-union white men. On August 31, 1899, the unofficial strike of the black men disrupted the handling and loading of ships in the Warwick County port. However, within one day, the shipping company had obtained nearly one hundred white men to...

  6. Railroads; the new form of transportation in the South
    date July 23, 1891 to September 1, 1896map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Agriculture, Economy, Migration/Transportation

    Newspapers, like the Portsmouth Star were filled with railroad advertisements displaying the price and rates for which a passenger could travel from Portsmouth to Virginia Beach, Petersburg, Philadelphia, and even New York with no more than a day of travel for even the farther distances. A company called the Bay Line and Pennsylvania railroad offered to take people in Norfolk to the Niagara Falls...

  7. Portsmouth Star calls attention to water purification
    date September 5, 1896 to 1896map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Health/Death, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    During the late nineteenth century, urbanization prompted mass migrations of

    southerners to cities. This caused crowding within the cities and soon sanitation became

    an issue. Despite the problems, it was not until the last two decades of the 1800's that

    cities started addressing this problem. However, once it started in one city, others started

    following suit. Portsmouth...

  8. Black Witness
    date July 31, 1897 to 1897map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags African-Americans, Law, Race-Relations

    The passing of Mrs. Lucinda Todd was not a surprise to her family, after all her health had been suffering for sometime. Though Mrs. Todd's passing initially appeared peaceful, the true happenings behind her death were revealed in the subsequent battle for ownership of Mrs. Todd's will. On July 31, 1897 Judge Burroughs resided over the court that was set to declare the official executer of Lucinda...

  9. Norfolk Virginian reports on tobacco output
    date July 23, 1891 to 1891map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Agriculture, Economy

    The Norfolk Virginian reported the acres of farmland that grew tobacco and the

    pounds of tobacco harvested as a result in 1891. There were various counties and big

    producers included Amherst, Bedford, and Prince Edward. Many of these counties

    resided in the Central Virginia region. 24,034 planters planted on 110,579 acres and

    produced 48,522,655 pounds of tobacco...

  10. Advancement of Health and Sanitation in Central Virginia
    date July 23, 1891 to 1891map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Health/Death, Law, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    In the city of Norfolk on July 21, 1891, Dr. Morgan Health officer of Norfolk

    County, examined the dairies and livestock in the city. The Norfolk Virginian reported

    on the results and also wrote about other issues the Board of Health addressed.

    According to the newspaper, he examined 475 animals with an output of 768 gallons. Dr.

    Morgan's examination yielded results...

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