Episodes Nearest to May 24, 1883: 1 through 25 of 25
- Uncommon Access and Consumerism
May 24, 1883
NEW YORK, New York
Science/Technology, EconomyThe souvenir booklet distributed by merchandiser Frederick Loeser during the initial weeks of the opening of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge on May 24, 1883, represented an early example of direct marketing. The crush of pedestrian traffic that gathered on the bridge's promenade deck was anxious to experience what was described as the "Eighth Wonder of the World", and no doubt contained shoppers....
- African American Lynched During Prison Transfer
May 8, 1883 to May 13, 1883
CADDO, Louisiana
African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Health/DeathOn May 8, 1883, a Texan was arrested at the ferry landing in Shreveport, Louisiana for the murder of William H. Lyon. The Texan's name was D.C. Hutchins, and he was an African American. The paper described Hutchins as a desperado and noted that he had been a terror to the decent citizens of Bossier parish, La. The citizens of Bossier parish were indignant at the crime. The paper also noted with...
- Alumni meeting at the Male High School to protest changes in the studies
June 9, 1883
JEFFERSON, Kentucky
EducationOn June 9, 1883, the alumni of the Male High School in Louisville, KY had a meeting in their high school's chapel to discuss and protest the future of the school's academic studies. The goal was to prevent the school board from changing the school's current curriculum. The school's alumni had many attendees, including many important and influential men. <br />At this time,...
- Memorial Day Address at Staunton
June 9, 1883
AUGUSTA, Virginia
Health/Death, WarIt was a day to honor the memories of those who died in battle and to think about the history of their great nation. Captain Micajah Woods of Charlottesville delivered a stirring Memorial Day address to the people of Staunton, just twenty-two years since the Civil War. Captain Woods spoke as one who had fought in the fields as a Southern soldier during the war and could relate to the experiences...
- Lynch mob justice claims Wesley Warren in Prospect, Tennessee.
June 21, 1883
WARREN, Tennessee
African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Law, Race-RelationsA small party of men lynched Wesley Warren for the murder of James Trice, a clerk at the town store in Prospect, Tennessee, which was located 76 miles south of Nashville. J.M Neal purchased a large amount of corn from Trice and stayed at the store until 1A.M. when he boarded a train for Pulaski, Tennessee. Authorities suspected that Warren and his accomplices entered the store at 2 A.M and killed...
- Duel Outside Waynesboro
June 30, 1883
AUGUSTA, Virginia
Crime/Violence, Health/Death, LawThey decided to meet in a wooded area around two miles outside of Waynesboro in the mist of the early morning. At six o'clock on June 30, 1883, Mr. Elam and Mr. Beirne met one another to settle the score as gentlemen always had before - with a duel. The procedure was decided in advance, specifying the use of Colt's six-shooters at eight paces. All men not directly involved with the business...
- Race Relations and Labor Unions in Nineteenth Century New Orleans
1883
ORLEANS, Louisiana
Labor Union, Race RelationsThe history of the nineteenth century United States rarely speaks of racial cooperation, however evidence of a few such scenarios are historically documented. The end of slavery in the United States all but destroyed the agrarian economy of the southern states, and even with the constitutional abolition of slavery racial hostility ran high throughout the country. Yet as the country attempted to...
- American Women’s Social Status in 1800’s
January 1, 1883 to December 31, 1883
NEW YORK, New York
poverty, Women, social statusEmily Faithfull, an English women right’s activist and writer, discovered an interesting phenomenon during her trips to the United States in 1872 and 1882. Many middle class and upper class women she met were leading a harsh life after losing their fathers or husbands. In two cases, the daughter of a navy Commander and the wife of a General of the United States Army were not able to make a living...
- More to the WCTU than Meets the Eye
1883
SUFFOLK, Massachusetts
Temperance Movement, Temperance, woman's suffrageIn a letter to a temperance friend in the late 1800’s Francis Parkman, a Temperance supporter, called a woman who was part of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union out on what he thought the Temperance Movement was about. He writes to the woman saying that temperance was nothing more than, “A wedge to universal woman suffrage”.
In the late 1800‘s people began to become concerned...
- Petition for Mercy
January 5, 1883 to 1883
ISLE OF WIGHT, Virginia
African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Government, LawGovernor Cameron received a petition from a substantial number of Virginia citizens who were concerned with the injustice of a court decision in Virginia. The petitioners wanted a commutation of the sentence of the black man Preston Harris, who was sentenced to be hung for arson. Harris sent fire to the jail where he was housed, though no one seemed to know if it was accidental or purposeful. All...
- Marsh J Polk Defrauds The State of Tennessee of four hundred thousand dollars
January 6, 1883 to 1883
DAVIDSON, Tennessee
Government, LawMarsh J Polk, the treasurer of the state of Tennessee and the nephew of President Polk, raised suspicion when he refused to pay interest on bonds enacted by the state. Tennessee needed the revenue from the bonds to repay the forty million dollar deficit created by Civil War devastation. A committee from the general assembly investigating Polk's personal accounts discovered that he transferred...
- Southern Baptists Demand Total Prohibition
March 29, 1883
TALLADEGA, Alabama
African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Crime/Violence, Law, Politics, Migration/Transportation, Race-RelationsOn March 29, 1883, the Baptist journal, Christian Index, implored the citizens of Talladega County, Alabama to support the outlaw of alcohol trafficking. In 1881, Talladega County proposed a vote on the outlaw of alcohol consumption and the African American population allegedly voted in a bloc against the prohibition. The article blamed the African American population for the failure...
- The President Comes to Town
April 5, 1883 to 1883
PRINCE WILLIAM, Virginia
Government, Politics, Migration/TransportationThe town of Petersburg had been anticipating this day for over a week. The President was passing through on his way to Jacksonville, Florida, and he had been expected for a couple days. But finally, on April 5, 1883, his train came through. The train pulled into the station, and while it was clearly an expensive and impressive presidential car, it was not very extravagant. The observation deck...
- Boys and Baseball
February 9, 1883
NEW YORK, New York
Adolescence, New York City 1880s, City LifeBoys do not like sitting around and talking. They would much rather be running, jumping, throwing, and screaming.
So it comes as a complete surprise to see that on February 9, 1883, a group of adolescent boys, aged anywhere from ten to sixteen, gathered together as delegates of eleven of New York's grammar schools to form a baseball club. The boys came from the city's schools, known...
- Farmer's Alliance as a Political Alliance
February 6, 1883
GRANVILLE, North Carolina
Agriculture, Government, PoliticsThe threat of a trust formed between cigarette manufacturers in order to control the price of Bright Leaf tobacco grown in the North Carolina Piedmont greatly alarmed the members of the Farmer's Alliance living in the Bright Belt region of North Carolina where this tobacco was grown. In order to prevent just five individuals or corporations from dictating the price of a product whose production...
- San Francisco in the late 1800s
September 23, 1883
SAN FRANCISCO, California
San Francisco, U.S. CitiesAfter the United States won its freedom and began to expand itself westward, many of the cities throughout the country began to flourish in their own specific ways. A journal kept by Captain Willard W. Glazier recorded a variety of cities he visited while traveling through the United States in the late 1800s. Captain Glazier visited many cities, including San Francisco.
When Captain Glazier...
- Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute Opened
October 1, 1883
PITTSYLVANIA, Virginia
African-Americans, EducationEducation has always been the most stressed issue advocated by Civil Rights activists. From education one gains knowledge of his or her surroundings and from that knowledge can go forth to establish oneself in the ever-changing world. For African-Americans, education was paramount in the fight for equality. Though creating schools for blacks was not easy in the late 19th century south, some innovative...
- Calvin Gray's Murder
December 24, 1882 to December 30, 1882
HAWKINS, Tennessee
African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Law, Race-RelationsOn the night of December 24, 1882, near the town of Mooresburg in Hawkins County, Tennessee, African American Calvin Gray was accused of stealing hogs on Mrs. Joseph Gill's farm. He was later released for lack of evidence. On the following Saturday, December 30, an unknown group of people sought retribution for the alleged robbery and bombarded Gray's home, pounding violently on the door...
- A Black Voice, the Spark of the Modern Civil Rights Movement.
October 20, 1883
MADISON, Alabama
Civil Rights, Black, Black Press, Huntsville Gazette, William GastonSaturday, October 20, 1883 William Gaston used pages in The Huntsville Gazette to publish an article that shocked the black community. The headline read, “The Civil Rights Act: The United States Supreme Court Declares the Act Unconstitutional.” According to Gaston, “These cases [presented to the Supreme Court] were respectively prosecutions under that act for not admitting certain colored...
- Danville Riot
November 3, 1883 to November 5, 1883
PITTSYLVANIA, Virginia
Crime/Violence, Race-RelationsRacial tension in the late 19th century peaked in the Southeastern United States. Blacks fought what seemed to be an impossible objective as they sought out equality in a predominately white world. Nevertheless slow and steady progress was being made as African American advanced in social, political, and economic arenas. These establishments brought with them the wrath of Southern white fear...
- Governor Mahone's Views on the Riot
November 3, 1883 to November 6, 1883
PITTSYLVANIA, Virginia
African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Economy, Government, Politics, Race-Relations, Urban-Life/BoosterismOn November 3, 1883, a black man refused to move off the sidewalk for a white man, and the ensuing violence caused a riot throughout the city of Danville as whites and blacks were attacked each other. One white man and five black men were killed. Each side blamed the other for starting the riot. Its repercussions sent shockwaves through the state of Virginia, especially with the November elections...
- Public Education for African Americans in Alabama
November 13, 1883
MOBILE, Alabama
African-Americans, Education, Government, Race-RelationsOn 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...
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union Letter in Newspaper
December 12, 1883
WILKINSON, Georgia
Health/Death, Education, Government, Law, WomenA casual reader of the Southerner & Appeal might have noticed a column titled To the Women of Georgia. Mrs. Richard Webb, of Savannah, Georgia, was an ardent member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. In her letter to the newspaper, she insisted that women take up the cause of prohibition and promote alcohol education for young children in order to prevent drunkenness in adulthood....
- Thomas E. Watson elected into Georgia General Assembly
November 1, 1882
MC DUFFIE, Georgia
Race-RelationsEarly in his career, Tom Watson was influenced by many leaders of the Confederacy, and he was drawn to local politics. After attending the Convention of 1800, he was determined to run for legislature. He appealed to Georgians as a defender of the old way of life and he was first elected to the state legislation representing McDuffie County in 1882. <br />During the campaign, he discovered...
- Women's Christian Temperance Union
October 28, 1882
DAVIDSON, Tennessee
Church/Religious-ActivityLiquor, as Edward Ayers explains, took a heavy toll on the South, especially since alcohol became much easier to get as the numbers of towns and stores increased. Often, churches went on the offensive, trying to reform what they saw as the greatest threats to their moral standards.' In the New South, women had an increasingly important role on church committees, and thousands of younger...