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RICHMOND, Georgia in the 1890s: 1 through 6 of 6

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  1. Industrious Women Find a Niche
    date January 18, 1896map RICHMOND, Georgiatags Women's roles, Southern Women, Industry

    “In many places there are plenty of industrious and accomplished women who are skillful with the needle, or in the kitchen, and who could make many a nice things the public would like to have if there was only some way in which they could be got before the public.” The Augusta Women’s Exchange, noted the Atlanta Constitution, provided women with the means. “For the fee of one dollar per year...

  2. Judson Lyons Rejected as Postmaster of Augusta, GA
    date July 1, 1897map RICHMOND, Georgiatags African-Americans, Race-Relations

    Under the heading “Not a Negro' the Birmingham's Age-Herald reported that Augusta, Georgia would not have a “colored postmaster'. Judson Lyons, the African American under consideration, “will not be postmaster of Augusta' said Secretary Gary of Georgia. He gave his reasons, saying that “a colored man would be elected postmaster and this was a social and political matter.' The...

  3. Closing of Ware High School
    date July 10, 1897map RICHMOND, Georgiatags Education, Race-Relations

    Founded by one of the most prominent educators in the country, Mr. Richard A. Wright, Ware High School was the first high school for African-Americans in all of Georgia. A secondary school for African-Americans, it was seen as symbol of interracial cooperation for many in the community. In 1897 Ware High School was thriving, nearly doubling its number of students and even added an assistant teacher...

  4. Augusta County School Board Rejects Petition on Behalf of Ware High School
    date August 28, 1897map RICHMOND, Georgiatags Education, Race-Relations

    On this date in late August, the Augusta County School Board rejected a petition on behalf of 155 African-Americans within the community made in protest to the closing of Ware High School, a secondary school for African-Americans in the area, by a vote of 23-3 with two abstentions. It is important to note that all three of the dissenters represented the Fifth Ward, a lower-class factory region which...

  5. White Lynch Mob Visits Jail
    date November 3, 1898map RICHMOND, Georgiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Law, Race-Relations

    Soldiers stood where angry mobs had been the night before, and cavalry and infantrymen patrolled the streets which lynchers marched upon just a day earlier. This was the status of the Augusta jail one day after the attempted raid upon its confines by an angry mob of white men. The mob of 500 armed men had been intent on having their justice with William Robinson, an African American man accused of...

  6. Augusta Mill Strike Ends
    date January 27, 1899map RICHMOND, Georgiatags Economy

    A two month long strike in the cotton mills of Augusta ended in January after workers gave in a struggle with employers over wages and standards of living. The strike began on November 22, 1898. The strike was expected by those in the community, as tension had been mounting among the workers of the King mills, the Sibley mills, the Enterprise, the Warwick and the Isaetta. Workers at several of the...