Episodes Located: FULTON, Georgia in the 1890's

  1. Ninth International Sunday School Association Meets in Atlanta
    date April 27, 1899 to April 30, 1899map FULTON, Georgiatags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Race-Relations

    This religious meeting held in Atlanta brought together “some of the most prominent leaders in the entire Christian world', according to the Atlanta Constitution. Over the course of several days, these leaders met with religious leaders from across the country, as well as ordinary citizens of Atlanta to discuss topics of religion and to raise money for churches and Sunday schools across America....

  2. Chicago World's Fair Contest in Georgia
    date May 1, 1893 to October 3, 1893map FULTON, Georgiatags Arts/Leisure

    The Chicago World's Fair, or the World Columbian Exposition, opened its gates to the American public on May 1, 1893, having constructed over 200 new buildings in order to house the enormous number of exhibits the fair would open to the international public. Among its hundreds of exhibits and performances were models of new industrial machinery, specially-made buildings, and Buffalo Bill's Wild West...

  3. Southern Methodist minister Sam Jones speaks to 150,000 people during crusade to Atlanta
    date October, 1896map FULTON, Georgiatags Church/Religious-Activity

    By 1896, the Alabama-born evangelist Sam Jones was the most famous itinerant preacher in the South. His crusade to Atlanta drew an enormous crowd and demonstrated how much his “equal opportunity' sermons, in which he was “hard on everyone,' resonated with a Southern audience. In an age of emerging political demagogues all over the South such as Ben Tillman and Tom Watson, Ed Ayers calls...

  4. Populist platform of Georgia includes plank denouncing the current lynching laws
    date 1896map FULTON, Georgiatags Race-Relations

    From the inception of the Populist party, going back to antecedent parties such as the Readjusters and Greenbackers, as well as the previous attempts in the 1880s to fuse the Farmers' Alliances and the Colored Farmers National Alliance, an attempt was made to attract the Negro to the fold using an approach devoid of what C. Vann Woodward calls “sentimental liberalism' and “romantic paternalism.'...

  5. Race-Relations in Georgia Gubernatorial Race
    date 1896map FULTON, Georgiatags African-Americans, Race-Relations

    The occurrence of mass mob lynching or by individuals escalated during the decade of the 1890s. The severe racism of Georgia “swept away the Bourbon notion of race relations and revolutionized popular attitudes towards blacks.' The violence against African-Americans was at an unprecedented level. The gubernatorial race and the ensuing debates brought the issue of race relations to the forefront...

  6. Southern Rhetoric Concerning Womens Suffrage in Relation to African American Suffrage
    date August 26, 1890map FULTON, Georgiatags African-Americans, Politics, Women

    The Atlanta Constitution serves as an example of the negativity of Southern rhetoric concerning women's suffrage and rights in the early post Civil War era. . It also shows the development in rhetoric in the South and how discourse concerning women's suffrage evolved throughout the nineteenth century to discuss the movement more objectively. The more objective tone, which indicates change in dealing...

  7. Shall We Unite? Nationalist Sentiments in Atlanta
    date April 12, 1892map FULTON, Georgiatags Government, Migration/Transportation

    Twenty-seven years had passed since Grant surrendered to Lee at Appomattox, VA and yet, according to A.D. Kean, division still belied his society. In seeking those similarities which connect the North with the South, Kean made a poignant point, asking readers of the People's Party Paper to recall those 23 New York Unknown who similarly left their homes with the kisses of their mother still on their...

  8. Racist Poem
    date August 26, 1892map FULTON, Georgiatags African-Americans, Race-Relations

    Whoever thought all poetry was Shakespeare and emphatic cries of carpe diem has not read any poetry by H.C. Fairman. In an incredibly vehement and highly-charged poem submitted to the People's Party Paper, Fairman charges niggers with nothing less than starting the Civil War, the subsequent complete and utter destruction of the South, and the sorry fate of so many people in the South. He again cites...

  9. Booker T. Washington calls to Cast Down Your Buckets
    date September 18, 1895map FULTON, Georgiatags African-Americans, Economy, Education, Race-Relations

    Cast down your buckets where you are This was the prophetic cry of Booker T. Washington at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition on Wednesday, September 18, 1895. The talented representative of the negroes and President of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School spoke brilliantly and passionately as he lobbied for African American employment in the burgeoning industrial age. He called upon whites throughout...

  10. Women Prepare for 1895 Atlanta Cotton Exposition
    date September 18, 1895map FULTON, Georgiatags Urban-Life/Boosterism, Women

    Porcelain panels of fruit, intricate paintings, exquisite displays of needlework, and skillfully-crafted carpentry. These elaborate and beautiful adornments awaited guests of the Women's Department at Atlanta's 1895 Cotton Exposition. Women's social clubs from the entirety of Georgia labored to make their display a true success. To do so, they culled art and handiwork from around the country, including...