Episodes Nearest to August 19, 1890 to December 31, 1890: 1 through 25 of 25

  1. Catholicism and other denominations in the South
    date August 19, 1890 to 1890map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Church/Religious-Activity

    According to Edward Ayers, religion was a Southerner's way of life and they

    often justified or condemned something based on religion. Myriad Christian

    denominations were active in the South including Baptist, Episcopal, Methodist,

    Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant, and Quaker, however; the Baptist denomination claimed

    the largest following. The Norfolk Virginian,...

  2. Calling in Sick
    date October 28, 1890map HENRICO, Virginiatags African-Americans, Education, Government

    The Richmond Dispatch reported on October 28, 1890, on the status of the Richmond Public Schools.Administrators gathered at the Richmond high school building to discuss enrollment and attendance for the 1890-91 school year.The superintendent, W.F. Fox, reported that enrollment had increased from the previous year.The statistics included a category for blacks as well as whites.Interestingly, enrollment...

  3. An 1890 Constitutional Convention Role Reversal
    date September, 1890 to December, 1890map HINDS, Mississippitags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Government, Law, Politics, Race-Relations

    During the 1890 Constitutional Convention in Jackson, Mississippi, two men, at least, seemed to be on the wrong sides of the color line; Marsh Cook, a white Republican from Jasper County, and Isaiah T. Montgomery, eventually the only black representative at the convention, stood up for things taboo to many in their respective communities. The results of each man's stand not only affected them...

  4. Assassination Conspiracy Uncovered
    date October 9, 1890 to December 8, 1890map DODGE, Georgiatags Crime/Violence, Law, Politics

    On the evening of October 9, 1890, J.C. Forsythe settled into his library in his Dodge County residence to relax for the night. He was the everyday normal Georgia citizen, working at the Normansdale Lumber Company, managing the estate of Norman Dodge, and even serving as a witness in an ongoing perjury case against another member of the town, Luther A. Hall. No one expected that he would turn up...

  5. Navy Slams Army: The Beginning of a Rivalry
    date November 29, 1890map ORANGE, New Yorktags Arts/Leisure, Race-Relations, War

    Cadet Walker of the Army football team races down the sideline in pursuit of the Naval Academy's captain Emerich. Walker finally catches his opponent, and leaps at his chest to try and bring him down. In the fall, Walker's chest is crushed by the Midshipman, and he is unable to rise. His comrades race to his side and pump his lungs until he regains consciousness, and the cadet eventually...

  6. To Protect and Serve: Overlooked White Crimes
    date September 3, 1890map ALBEMARLE, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Government, Law, Race-Relations

    The black woman was badly injured. She had been close to death for several days and her family was stricken with feelings of uncertainty and anger. They wanted the police officer who had brutally beaten their loved one to be brought to justice, yet this seemed unlikely in Charlottesville, Virginia, a predominantly white city. The family maintained hope that they would finally see...

  7. Southern Rhetoric Concerning Womens Suffrage in Relation to African American Suffrage
    date August 26, 1890map FULTON, Georgiatags African-Americans, Politics, Women

    The Atlanta Constitution serves as an example of the negativity of Southern rhetoric concerning women's suffrage and rights in the early post Civil War era. . It also shows the development in rhetoric in the South and how discourse concerning women's suffrage evolved throughout the nineteenth century to discuss the movement more objectively. The more objective tone, which indicates change...

  8. Remembering the Brave
    date August 25, 1890map HENRICO, Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, Government

    There must always be homage paid to those who lost their lives in battle.Even in defeat, the Confederate States honored their unknown fallen.OnAugust 25, 1890, The State newspaper out of Richmond reported that work was being continued on the monument to memorialize these brave men.Workers at the site said that the progress was moving along at a good pace to complete the monument.The stone in which...

  9. Jim Crows to the Senate-a White Mississippians' Defense of Supremacy
    date December 31, 1890map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Government, Law, Politics, Race-Relations

    On December 31, 1890, Senator James Z. George (D. Miss), a man Dunbar Rowland calls a life-long resident of Carroll County, began his overwhelmingly convincing speech on the Senate Floor defending the newly written Mississippi Constitution. The new constitution, according to Rowland's 1902 reflections, was drafted in order to eliminate ignorance at the ballot box, and Senator George's defense...

  10. Emancipation Celebration
    date January 1, 1891map Alexandria City, Virginiatags African-Americans, Law, Race-Relations

    African Americans gathered in large numbers in Alexandria on New Year's night, January 1, 1891, to celebrate the twenty-eighth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Magnus L. Robinson, editor of the Weekly Leader noted with chivalry that in Lannon's Opera House every orchestra chair was filled with the fair sex--never have there been before such an array of Afro-American ladies at...

  11. A Change of Churches
    date August 17, 1890map KING WILLIAM, Virginiatags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity

    For this reason I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you. (Titus 1:5). Reverend William Troy, of Richmond, preached a powerful sermon, centered on this biblical passage, as he installed the Rev. E C Thomson as the new pastor of the Mangohick Baptist Church in King William County. Thomson, who had attended...

  12. Democrats Continue to Oppose a “Force Bill'
    date January 5, 1891map Washington City, District of Columbiatags African-Americans, Race-Relations

    The “Force Bill' was a name commonly given to legislation designed to protect black voting rights through federal supervision of congressional elections. Republicans generally supported these bills, but the Democrats fiercely resisted them. An Alabama editor charged that those in the north who were in support of a Force Bill were merely out for the blood of the South.<br /><br...

  13. Easing City Life with Public Trasportation
    date August 13, 1890map HENRICO, Virginiatags Economy, Migration/Transportation

    The expansion of Richmond required an expansion of the transportation system that made it function.Officials announced on August 13, 1890, that there would be additions made to the city's street-car system.It was announced that the tracks on Broad Street would be extended further than they were at that particular time.George Fisher, the general manager of the City Railway and Union Passenger...

  14. Marriage Roles and Rates
    date January 10, 1891map ACCOMACK, Virginiatags Church/Religious-Activity, Women

    Marriage was very prominent in 1890 in Accomack, Virginia, and the people sustained well their reputation as marrying people. There were 267 marriages in that year alone, the most occurring in December with 63 marriages. April was the most unpopular month taking only 11 marriages. In 1891 a girl married at the age of 13, which showed that the year 1891 was starting off at a fast pace and that marriage...

  15. Ice Famine Narrowly Averted
    date March 13, 1890 to 1890map COPIAH, Mississippitags Arts/Leisure, Church/Religious-Activity, Health/Death, Economy, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    On March 13, 1890, the Jackson Weekly Clarion Ledger relayed word from Chicago that the cold weather of the past ten days has been a God-send to the ice men... The Michigan fields are being heavily drawn upon, while the crop in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin is eminently encouraging, thus relieving fears of an ice shortage. This was especially good news for Mr. Beasly of Crystal Springs, Mississippi,...

  16. American Tobacco Company Established
    date January 1, 1890 to December 31, 1890map DURHAM, North Carolinatags Economy

    In the several years preceding 1890, brothers Ben and Buck Duke initiated several reforms of their tobacco manufacturing business. The brothers' company W. Duke and Sons experienced great success after the innovations. Then in response to concern about other manufacturers, in 1890, the Dukes joined four of their tobacco competitors to the form the American Tobacco Company. The American Tobacco...

  17. Missouri Farmer Sells Butter in East Because Interstate Railroad Growth
    date January 1, 1890 to December 31, 1890map KNOX, Missouritags Economy, Migration/Transportation

    J.H. Hill, a Missouri creamery owner, produced 43,500 pounds of butter in 1890. He sold all of his butter in the eastern market. Increasing railroad building and growing connections with places like Edina, Missouri made possible the sale of agricultural products across the country. While some like Hill thrived because of this more open trade, others opposed the expansion of markets. They believed...

  18. Celebrating a Leader
    date July 2, 1890map HENRICO, Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, Economy, Government

    The South had not lost its Confederate culture following the end of the Civil War.Those criminalized by the North were made immortal by southerners in the form of monuments.Churchill Gibson Chamberlayne and all six of his family and friends attended the festivities surrounding the laying the cornerstone of the monument for former Confederate President Jefferson Davis on July 2, 1896.The event included...

  19. Diversity in the Houston Saturday Evening Market
    date 1890map HARRIS, Texastags Arts/Leisure, Economy, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations

    As the sun lay low in the evening sky, the Saturday market in Houston sprang to life with a diverse and vivid collection of venders and products. Lee Hardy described how the area was full of venders alone representing every nationality, Americans being far in the minority. Open from 5 PM to 10 PM in the summer, here German traders, who had often traveled more than twenty miles to be present, set...

  20. A Long Awaited Education
    date 1890map ALBEMARLE, Virginiatags African-Americans, Education, Race-Relations

    A sense of pride and accomplishment overwhelmed Benjamin Franklin Yancey towards the end of the 1890s. He had finally achieved a dream that he believed would change the lives of generations of young African Americans. Yancey had overcome the obstacles of racist sentiments and segregation that were a widespread aspect of life in Albemarle County, Virginia.

    Benjamin Franklin Yancey...

  21. Susie Clark’s arrival in California by train from Boston
    date 1890map LOS ANGELES, Californiatags Native Americans, Railroad, Transportation

    During the 1890s Susie Champney Clark left Boston on a Raymond & Whitcomb Co. organized railroad trip across the country to California, recording her observations and notes along the way.  Though this trip may have seemed impossible to make earlier in the century, as Ms. Clark said in the first chapter of her book The Round Trip from Hub to the Golden Gate, “California [was] much nearer...

  22. ­Agriculture in California
    date 1890map MERCED, Californiatags Agriculture, Farming, California

    California’s land constitutes a diverse terrain. Between the mountain ranges and the coastlines, the deserts and the valleys, the state has always provoked an astonishing wonder from both locals and newcomers. Additionally, the climate proves to be beneficial in certain areas with minimal exposure to winter weather and ideal mild sunshine.  The people of the late 19th century acknowledged...

  23. Potentially Fatal Train Wreck near Ivanhoe, Virginia
    date June 14, 1890map WYTHE, Virginiatags Health/Death, Migration/Transportation

    On Saturday, June 14, 1890, a serious accident between a passenger train and material train occurred on the Cripple Creek division of the Norfolk and Western railroad near Ivanhoe, Virginia. The material train ran under orders to meet the passenger train at a switch approximately fourteen miles outside of Ivanhoe. The passenger train apparently ran under no such order and continued toward Ivanhoe....

  24. Italo-American Incident
    date March 14, 1891map ORLEANS, Louisianatags Crime/Violence, War

    A mob comprised of 20,000 residents of New Orleans, angered at the failure of a jury to convict the alleged murderers of David C. Hennessy, superintendent of police, attacked the prison in which the accused were still held and lynched 11 of them. Three of the victims were Italian citizens. The Italian government demanded prosecution of the leaders of the mob. This was an example of the accepted...

  25. The Future of Pacfic Trade Due to an Untimely Death
    date March, 1891 to 1891map Pacific, Outside UStags King Kalakana, Pacific Trade, Sandwich Islands, Hawaii

    In march of 1891, King Kalakana had died from an unknown cause in San Francisco within the United States. This death had arroused the citizens of both the continental united states as well as Hawaiian natives who enjoyed visiting San Francisco. The worry that notes itself here comes from certain negotiations that were taking place at the time of his unfortunete death. These negotiations were based...