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  1. A Wild Night: Pittsburgh "Great Strikers" Burn Rail Yard
    date July 19, 1877 to July 23, 1877map ALLEGHENY, Pennsylvaniatags Labor Strike, Labor Union, Militia

    In her memoirs, Mary Harris "Mother" Jones described the night in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that strikers from the Pennsylvania Railroad turned the "Great Strike" of 1877 into a riot. "Hundreds of box cars standing on the tracks were soaked with oil and set on fire and sent down the tracks to the roundhouse. The roundhouse caught fire. Over one hundred locomotives belonging to the Pennsylvania Railroad...

  2. Regulating Freedpeople’s Marriages in South Carolina
    date 1866 to 1870map CHARLESTON, South Carolinatags African-Americans, Law, Government Laws, Politics

    In hopes of assimilating ex-slaves into life as freedmen, the Freedmen’s Bureau worked to legalize marriages and establish standards for the marriages of freedmen.  Such Marriage Rules were observed in South Carolina in 1866, when such matters were under the jurisdiction of the Freedmen’s Bureau.  The Marriage Rules, contained six sections that, outlined “the parties eligible for marriage,...

  3. Black Codes and Racism in South Carolina Prevent Migration to the State by Northerners
    date December 8, 1865map CHARLESTON, South Carolina, NEW YORK, New Yorktags Migration, Politics, Race-Relations, Black Codes, South Carolina, Reconstruction

    At the close of the Civil War, wealthy northerners were interested in acquiring new farmland to develop. To do so, they needed to relocate to areas that were less populated than the North. Despite their admiration for South Carolina’s “lands and climate,” northerners feared living in the state, because of the potential violence. During this time, South Carolina began enacting black codes to restrict...

  4. When Will It Ever Change?
    date July 11, 1930map New York, New Yorktags Crime/Violence, African-Americans, Lynching

    News stories relating ‘death by accident,’ ‘murder by one of own’ or even an ‘unsolved mystery’ are just too far-fetched to explain the discovery of so many ‘Negro’ bodies found in the swamps or in uninhabited places in 1930.  It is inconceivable to think that the white tyrannical press believe that we are fooled by their fabrications about the missing southern ‘Negro’ workers,”...