Episodes Around: 18880101 to 18880130

  1. The Jim Crow Car Trials in Georgia
    date 1887 to 1889map RICHMOND, Georgiatags African-Americans, Law, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations

    When Mr. Heard bought his train ticket for Philadelphia to Atlanta, little did he expect the events that would transpire as a result of that trip. In the spring of 1887, William M. Heard, an African American, brought suit against the Georgia Railroad Company after he was obligated to move into a segregated "Jim Crow" car. This action set into motion a series of court cases that specifically dealt...

  2. North Carolina Farmers' Alliance Comes to Sampson County
    date January, 1888map SAMPSON, North Carolinatags Agriculture, Politics

    Although the Alliance appeared in Robeson County, North Carolina in the spring of 1887, it was not until January 1888 that the Farmers' Alliance reached Sampson. By October 1887, the Alliance had established a state organization, with Syndenham B. Alexander as its president, Leonidas L. Polk as secretary, and Elias Carr as chairman of the executive committee. The Alliance attracted both small...

  3. A Confederate Veteran publishes a poem about Gettysburg
    date 1888map YORK, Pennsylvaniatags Arts/Leisure, Health/Death, War

    Born in Missouri and taken to Calhoun, Georgia with his brother, by his parents, Grigg and Diantha, Will Henry Thompson grew up in the foothills of the Cherokee Valley, living beside the "beautiful and scenic Coosawattee River." Both Will and his older brother Maurice learnt to hunt and fish, and eventually learned to use a longbow, thus leading to their toxophilitic nature (lovers of the bow and...