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  1. African American Woman Contracts Skin Disease
    date 1884map COBB, Georgiatags African-Americans, Race-Relations, Women

    In 1884, an African American woman living in Marietta, Georgia developed a rare skin disease that gradually lightened her skin. The woman worked for an upstanding white family in Georgia and experienced continuing skin lightening for many months. White spots covered her face and body, slowly enlarging and spreading across her skin. The spots gradually bleached her skin, making her appear white....

  2. Rumors Insult Women's Dignity
    date April, 1882map HAWKINS, Tennesseetags Arts/Leisure, Migration/Transportation, Women

    In April 1882, two young ladies from St. Clair, Tennessee traveled with three men to attend the Church Hill Institute in Church Hill, Tennessee. The two ladies were invited to spend the night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nugent, but declined the offer because the women did not want to inconvenience the family because the Nugents were already hosting many other guests. The women also wanted to travel...

  3. Arthur P. Thrasher Correspondence
    date 1895 to 1898map ST LOUIS CITY, Missouritags Agriculture, Economy, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    Frank and Alice Thrasher lived on a houseboat called Eureka harbored at the end of Bower Street in St. Louis, Missouri in 1897. Their son, Glenn, worked nearby on a tugboat that went up and down the Mississippi, and Frank, a tinsmith from New Orleans, continued a desperate search for work throughout the year. Alice, also out of work, remained on the houseboat most of the time, except for a few explorations...

  4. 100th Anniversary of the Death of George Washington
    date December 14, 1899map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Church/Religious-Activity

    George Washington was an important figure in the South in the 1900s, as he himself was a southerner from Virginia. After the Confederacy seceded from the Union and created the Constitution of the confederacy they turned to Washington as a symbol of their patriotism. An image of Washington was put on the seal of the Confederacy and on a postage stamp suggesting that the Confederacy, not the Union,...