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  1. Madison, Roanoke, and Walton County School Boards Attempt to Establish a High School
    date August 21, 1891 to August, 1893map ROANOKE, Virginiatags Education

    On August 21, 1891, a group of citizens from counties surrounding Smithville, Virginia came before the Madison, Roanoke, and Walton County School Boards to ask that a high school to be established in the town. The citizens had decided they could only afford to spend 250, so they needed additional money from the school funds in each district. At first, the task was deemed as impossible because...

  2. Garza War (or Tin Horn War)
    date September 15, 1891 to January 21, 1893map WEBB, Texastags Crime/Violence, War

    On September 15, 1891, Mexican Catarino Garza led twenty-six armed men across the Rio Grande in an attempt at a Texas-based revolution against the Mexican regime of Porfirio Diaz. Thus began a series of disturbances known as the Garza War or the Tin Horn War in which Garza recruited rebels to fight against the Mexican government by launching attacks from across the border in Texas. In this way...

  3. Baylee, the Democrat from Eastville
    date 1892map NORTHAMPTON, Virginiatags African-Americans, Politics, Race-Relations

    Baylee was a Democrat from Eastville, a town in Virginia's Eastern Shore. Baylee became a Democrat after an Eastern Shore county chairman approached him about an upcoming election. Eastville, with its sizable black population, had voted Republican in recent years. Democrats knew that wooing black voters with their often racist platform was difficult. One thing worked to the Democrats' advantage:...

  4. Race Relations Turn Violent
    date 1892map MADISON, Floridatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    In less than thirty years following the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, Florida became host to a violent flare up of racial tensions between a white man and a black man in Madison, Florida. The United States of America was one of the few major players in the world economy that still had a firmly intact system that subjugated a race by the late nineteenth century. However, the race lines...

  5. Hallowell Praises Black Soldiers
    date 1892map EAST BATON ROUG, Louisianatags Nashville, Soldier, African-Americans

    Since 1865 the importance of the black soldiers fighting in the Civil War for the Union has not been disputed, whether it be freed slaves or fugitive slaves. Without a doubt the black soldiers that fought helped the Union immensely, absorbing significant losses while doing so. Part of the success resulted from the way that black soldiers were treated. According to Norwood P. Hallowell, the black...

  6. The Washington Post reports on the Homestead Strike
    date June 30, 1892 to November 20, 1892map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Economy

    The Homestead Strike was a series of labor confrontations that occurred for nearly five months in 1892 in Homestead, Pennsylvania. On June 30, 1892, a three-year contract with the National Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers expired. The Carnegie Steel Company, managed at this time by Henry Clay Frick, attempted to cut the wages of the skilled steel workers. When the workers refused...

  7. Tennessee miner strikes over convict-lease laws
    date August 13, 1892 to August 19, 1892map GRUNDY, Tennesseetags Crime/Violence, Economy

    The system of convict leasing was prevalent in the South following the Civil War. Under this system, private businesses could lease convicts for a small fee. Tennessee adopted this system as a way to deal with the rising prison population and to help relieve the burden of its state debt. In 1884, the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company leased the state penitentiary. The system caused...

  8. Rate war begins among southern railroads
    date August 13, 1892map SHELBY, Tennesseetags Economy, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    After Reconstruction ended, the South began to rapidly construct railroads. Many different lines rose up, connecting all major cities. Competition arose between these lines. Although these railroads had cost advantages, the railways in the South experienced many financial crises. They increased the South's vulnerability to economic fluctuations, especially in the early 1890s.<br /><br...