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  1. The filing of a discrimination suit against the Norfolk and Portsmouth Ferry Company by two African-American preachers
    date November 23, 1885map BALTIMORE, Marylandtags African-Americans, Race-Relations

    Two black preachers from Baltimore , Rev. Harvey Johnston, of the Union Baptist Church, and Rev. P.H.A. Braxton, of the Calvary Church , filed suit against the Norfolk and Portsmouth Ferry Company in the Fourth Circuit of the Eastern District of Virginia. They did so after being accosted and, eventually, arrested for resisting the orders of the ferry's personnel to remove themselves from the section...

  2. Trains Fatally Wreck at Stone Creek
    date February 29, 1896map BIBB, Georgiatags Crime/Violence, Migration/Transportation

    On the evening of February 29, 1896, a Southern Railway passenger train wrecked on the Stone Creek bridge, outside of Macon, Georgia, sending the railcars and the bridge into the marshy ground 15 feet below. Minutes after, despite an attempt to warn it, a freight train following on the same line met the same fate. Three men died, while at least five people were seriously injured in the wreckage. In...

  3. Riverside Cotton Mills and the Water Power Company
    date June 10, 1882 to August 30, 1882map PITTSYLVANIA, Virginiatags Agriculture, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    Danville was only one of the many places that experienced the development of a newly mechanized and more highly capitalized cotton-processing business. As mentioned in the Promise of the New South, a prominent mill owner recalled that “every city and town and village wanted a cotton mill.' Furthermore, towns took pride in their new water works, which first were established in major cities in the...

  4. Cotton crop produced at abnormally low numbers.
    date October 4, 1827map WAKE, North Carolinatags Agriculture, Economy

    The Southern economy thrived on its ability to sell cotton to England and other European nations. In 1827, the economy fell and fell hard. Throughout the South, farmers had to deal with as an Alabama farmer put it the “most disastrous season for the agriculturist'. The cotton states of South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia and Virginia would all “fall far short of their usual quantity'....

  5. Eastman Race Riot
    date August 6, 1882 to August 12, 1882map DODGE, Georgiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Race-Relations

    Edward Ayers, in the Promise of the New South, described that the South was a “notoriously violent place.' In the South homicide among blacks and whites was the highest compared to the rest of the nation and world. Within the turbulent south during the 1880s and early 1890s, “politics and economic turmoil' constantly threw both blacks and whites into conflict. Most violence was caused by...

  6. Accident on the Virginia Midland Railroad
    date August 23, 1882map NELSON, Virginiatags Health/Death

    As Edward Ayers explains in the Promise of the New South, even though the railroad had an “aura of glamour' in the South, working on the railroad was dangerous. Many accidents occurred, varying from simple unimportant incidents such as a hand crushed, to as serious incidents such as a black man's head cut off when a train ran over him. Often accidents happened on the tracks, and trains collided...

  7. Lands Key in Social Standing
    date March 2, 1893map CHARLES, Marylandtags African-Americans, Agriculture, Economy

    On March 2, 1893, the land would be handed down from the Jerdone and Coleman family to the Archer Williams. The deed needed to be witnessed, signed, and sealed. The land was 132 acres and all the boundaries were listed. Land was essential in social standing and those with land were of higher class than those who weren't even if they were of different races. Land not only provided social standing,...

  8. 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 Jones...

  9. Debate over McKinley Tariff
    date January, 1890 to May, 1890map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Agriculture, Economy

    Republican Congressman William McKinley from Ohio introduced his plan for the tariff in the Spring of 1890. The legislation set the tariff rate at fifty percent, the highest in United States history. Congressman McKinley and its supporters designed the tariff to protect agriculture. However, the group forwarding the interests of the farmers, the Farmers' Alliance, called for the removal of the tariff...

  10. Confederate Soldier Reunion and the Return of a Regiment from Manila
    date July, 1899map DAVIDSON, Tennesseetags African-Americans, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, War

    A conflict ensued in Nashville, Tennessee in 1899 when the confederate reunion and the return of a regiment from Manila occurred simultaneously. The president of the local United Daughters of the Confederation firmly opposed the use of the United States flag at the reunion. Her protest proved unsuccessful. Although the United States flag was displayed, the Confederate veterans “marched “under...

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