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  1. Silencing Lynching
    date August 17, 1895map BALTIMORE CITY, Marylandtags Government, Race-Relations

    In the turbulent South of the late 19th century, the act of lynching was a well-established institution. This degrading act of vigilante violence was initiated to control; mainly African-Americans in a predominantly white society. A response article was written to the African-American Ledger, a black operated newspaper in Baltimore, rebuking these despicable acts towards a fellow human being. A spark...

  2. The Conjure Woman, and The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color LIne by Charles W. Chesnutt
    date 1899map CUMBERLAND, North Carolinatags Arts/Leisure, Race-Relations

    Charles W. Chesnutt was born to free blacks in Cleveland, OH in 1858. When he was eight years old his family returned to Fayetteville, NC. He began a teaching career and by 1880, he became the President of the Fayetteville State Normal School for Negroes. While in North Caroline, Chesnutt studied the culture, dialect, and superstitions of southern blacks. In 1883 he returned to Cleveland where he...

  3. Denial of Serive
    date August 3, 1895map CARROLL, Marylandtags African-Americans, Arts/Leisure, Law, Race-Relations

    Nearly twenty years earlier, the United States government ratified the Civil Rights Act of 1875 to alleviate some of the racial tensions still proliferated throughout the inner workings of society. During the summer months, it was common for families of all races to travel throughout the country for vacation and receive such hospitalities as refreshments and other accommodations. The businesses of...

  4. The St. Louis Brown Stocking Ball Club
    date March 4, 1895 to March 5, 1895map ST LOUIS CITY, Missouritags Arts/Leisure

    The New York Times reported that the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs was on the verge of dissolution on Monday March 4, 1895. National League Baseball was founded slightly before Major League Baseball. The Major League was founded in the early 1900s and since then the two leagues have competed in an annual series of games called the World Series. At the time of the reported near-dissolution,...

  5. Sam Forwood's Fatherly Advice
    date October 8, 1846map CLARKE, Alabamatags Agriculture, Health/Death, Economy, Education

    On October 8, 1846, in Clark County, Alabama, Sam Forwood wrote a letter to his sixteen-year-old son, William Stump Forwood, who was living in Maryland with his grandmother for schooling.Young William had been questioning what occupation he should pursue, and his father had several points of advice. Sam advised his son to pursue the profession of medicine. As Sam explained it, becoming a doctor would...

  6. B.F. Porter's Gin House
    date February 21, 1842map TUSCALOOSA, Alabamatags Arts/Leisure, Crime/Violence, Economy

    B.F. Porter was an important individual around Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. Not only was he a practicing lawyer, but he owned a large crop of cotton and produced valuable gin. However, someone apparently had a problem with his extracurricular activities. On February 21, 1842, the Mobile Commercial Register reported that Mr. Porter's gin house, along with his entire cotton crop, went up in flames only...

  7. Orphaned to Cloud Nine
    date November 8, 1865map NORTHAMPTON, Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, Economy, Education, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism, Women

    November 8, 1865, Miss Mary West Jenkins wed Dr. John F. Boynton in a hot air balloon above the clouds. The bride was an orphan, born in Northampton County, Virginia, and adopted by Mrs. J.L. West of St. Louis as an infant. With over 6,000 spectators present, the bridal party left the Fifth Avenue Hotel for Central Park. His sister and the owner of the balloon accompanied the young bride and her fiance...

  8. The Torture of Prisoners at Auburn
    date May 8, 1839map INDIAN LANDS, Alabamatags Crime/Violence, Government, Law

    Imprisonment at Auburn in Lee County, Alabama was literally torturous in 1839. On May 8, 1839, the Mobile Commercial Register published that a committee was investigating reports of certain cruelties towards prisoners. Upon surveying the prison, the committee confirmed that the prison keepers did in fact torture and whip the prisoners, so much that the doctors frequently had to visit to treat their...

  9. World championship fights in New Orleans
    date September 5, 1892 to September 7, 1892map ORLEANS, Louisianatags African-Americans, Arts/Leisure, Race-Relations

    Boxing was extremely popular in the South, especially during the 1880s and early 1890s. The national center of boxing was in New Orleans, and the height of 19th-century American boxing occurred in September 1892. In that month, New Orleans's Olympic Club staged three world championship fights. On September 5, the fights began. The crowd was very large and varied. Representatives from every state...

  10. Lynchings in Mississippi
    date July 5, 1892map WARREN, Mississippitags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Race-Relations

    Smith Tooley and John L. Adams were charged with the murder of Benson Blake and with many robberies. Benson Blake was a proprietor of a store in Vickburg, Mississippi. One night, he got wind that Tooley and some other Negroes were headed to rob his store. When the Negroes arrived, Benson and his friends were waiting for them. In a moment of rage, the Negroes fired through the window of the store,...

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