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  1. A Race War Results in Murder
    date June 10, 1900map WEST BATON ROUG, Louisianatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    In June of 1900, a young white man by the name of Marler was murdered by a black man, Pritchard, in West Baton Rouge, Louisiana. After Pritchard killed Marler, he returned to shoot the dead body repeatedly. The citizens of the parish were infuriated by the situation. Pritchard fled to the swamps. However, other black men had taken up the quarrel for him, and a conflict took place between armed white...

  2. Fighting for Equality in the Public Sphere
    date August 25, 1898 to November 18, 1898map GRAYSON, Texastags African-Americans, Law, Race-Relations, Women

    Though Reconstruction ended officially in 1877, the country and its people were far from united as racism and segregation became a growing force. Texas, though on the edge of the South, was certainly no stranger to this battle over inequality. On November 18, 1898, the Galveston News ran an article detailing how Isabelle E. Mabson, a black resident of Galveston, TX, filed suit in the district court...

  3. Land Allegation Dispute in Alabama
    date December 27, 1885map BALDWIN, Alabamatags Economy, Government, Politics, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    Alabama's Attorney General, while celebrating the Christmas season in his Gulf Coast home, received notice that he would need to institute a test suit as soon as possible in order to determine the title of government grated lands. In 1885, both timber businessmen and railroad executives repetitively brought cases to the Secretary of the Interior concerning the cutting of timber in certain areas of...

  4. Public Education for African Americans in Alabama
    date November 13, 1883map MOBILE, Alabamatags African-Americans, Education, Government, Race-Relations

    On the morning of November 13, in Birmingham, Alabama, the United States Senate Sub-Committee on Education and Labor resumed session. Witnesses were gathered from all over the state to testify to the committee, many of them hailing from the Gulf Coast of Mobile, Alabama. Two prominent white residents of the county testified about the cotton and coal production in the state, suggesting economic improvements...

  5. African American Voters Assaulted for Registering to Vote
    date March 28, 1896map ST LANDRY, Louisianatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Government, Politics, Race-Relations

    The African American voters of St. Landry parish were unable to vote. However, this inability to vote was not because it was illegal for African Americans to do so. Three hundred armed white men were standing in front of the registry office in the town of Palmetto in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana to prevent them from registering to vote. After the armed men left, a few African Americans had managed...

  6. 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,...

  7. The Cycle of Sharecropping
    date January 9, 1889map FALLS, Texastags African-Americans, Agriculture, Economy, Race-Relations, Women

    Widowed and with few options available to support herself, Dolly Lang, a black widow living in Falls County, Texas, signed a sharecropping contract with Mrs. V.C. Billingsley on January 9, 1889. The contract specified that Lang agreed to lease around 48 acres of land previously rented by her husband Ellis Lang and on which she currently lived. The land was to be used for growing cotton. Consequently,...

  8. Industrial Disparity Between the North and South
    date 1882map RICHMOND, Virginiatags Economy, Migration/Transportation, Science/Technology

    In 1882 the Richmond Enquirer wrote an article about John D. Rockefeller who "combined [his] disparate companies, spread across dozens of states, under a single group of trustees," creating the Standard Oil trust. The article, which appeared towards the back of the paper, was very short and contains only the very basics about the consolidation. It is hardly what one would expect, considering that it...