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HINDS, Mississippi in the 1890s: 1 through 7 of 7

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  1. An 1890 Constitutional Convention Role Reversal
    date September, 1890 to December, 1890map HINDS, Mississippitags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Government, Law, Politics, Race-Relations

    During the 1890 Constitutional Convention in Jackson, Mississippi, two men, at least, seemed to be on the wrong sides of the color line; Marsh Cook, a white Republican from Jasper County, and Isaiah T. Montgomery, eventually the only black representative at the convention, stood up for things taboo to many in their respective communities. The results of each man's stand not only affected them personally,...

  2. Mary Emilie Holmes: On a Mission
    date November, 1891 to December, 1891map HINDS, Mississippitags Church/Religious-Activity, Education, Race-Relations, Women

    The white citizens of Jackson, Mississippi were less than happy. According to the Clarion Ledger Jackson had been selected as the site of the Mary Holmes school for the colored people, despite protests of many newspapers and citizens. They did not, however, formally attempt to stop the project, as it was, according to Samuel Rogal's account of Holmes' educational ministry, a only seminary founded by...

  3. On Lynching
    date November 5, 1891 to 1891map HINDS, Mississippitags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Law, Race-Relations

    On November 5, 1891, the Jackson Clarion Ledger accused Texas Governor James Stephen Hogg of being vain for offering a reward for the apprehension of parties engaged in a lynching bee, the subject being a negro. The lynchers, according to the newspaper, would never be prosecuted. On March 27 of the previous year, the same newspaper reported that levee cutters would be properly cared for by the citizens...

  4. The Cross of Gold
    date November 5, 1891 to November, 1896map HINDS, Mississippitags Agriculture, Economy, Government, Politics

    On November 5, 1891, in its Alliance Department, The Jackson Weekly Clarion Ledger published the Farmers' Alliance main agricultural ideas. The central issue on the page, however, had nothing to do with crops, but had entirely to do with silver. Indeed, under a section labeled Alliance Principles and Demands, the first demand was unlimited silver coinage, or certificates based on silver. Since the...

  5. W.W. Price, an Honorable Man
    date November 5, 1891 to 1898map HINDS, Mississippitags Government, Law, Politics, Race-Relations, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    The passing of the 1890 Mississippi Constitution and of similar laws in other states had the immediate effect, according to John Hope Franklin, of returning political power to where it had been before the war; at last the former Confederate states were back in the Union under conditions favorable to those who had led the secession movement. Thus, when W.W. Price of the northern cotton house Hubbard,...

  6. Yellow Death Abroad in the Land
    date September 7, 1897map HINDS, Mississippitags Health/Death

    On the 7th of September The Age-Herald published an article titled “Yellow Death Abroad in the Land' in which they described the mounting yellow jack epidemic that was beginning to sweep through the South, reminding many of the great scare of 1878 and the many deaths that yellow jack had been attributed to in the previous decade. Ocean Springs was found to have the dreadful disease in her environment...

  7. Lost and Found
    date August 31, 1899 to 1899map HINDS, Mississippitags Migration/Transportation, War

    On August 31 of 1899, a brief letter from E.B. Hill, Telegraph Editor of the Detroit Journal, was published in the Jackson Weekly Clarion Ledger. Mr. Hill, it appeared, had inherited a Civil War era relic from his father, who had received it from a member of a troop of Michigan cavalry. The relic itself was an ornamental Bowieknife with a six-inch blade, horn handle, German silver mounted. The sheath...