Episodes Nearest to January 7, 1897: 1 through 25 of 25

  1. Tariffs and Agriculture
    date January 7, 1897map ROCKBRIDGE, Virginiatags Agriculture, Economy, Politics

    On January 7, 1897 the Rockbridge County News released its weekly edition in the town of Lexington. One specific article presented the news of a new tariff bill to be passed by the United States House of Representatives. This bill was designed to protect young American manufacturers and the economy from competing foreign markets. The article also gave insight into the fact that many...

  2. A Change in Direction
    date January 6, 1897map CARROLL, Marylandtags Education, Government, Politics, Race-Relations

    1897 was an important year for the educational system of Maryland, and subsequently, the South as a whole. Mayor Hooper of Baltimore, Maryland was becoming upset with the members of the school board. He strongly felt that the board of school commissioners were becoming too political in their decisions and straying from the board's intent to deliver the best quality of education to all public...

  3. Victims Flee Harm in Richmond
    date December 31, 1896map HENRICO, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Economy

    The streets of Richmond were no place to be at night.Chastain Riggins found this out the hard way as he was attacked while returning to his home on New Year's Eve 1896.At approximately 10:30 at night, Mr, Riggins was attacked by a large black man.The man grabbed Mr. Riggins by the neck and attempted to take his watch with his free hand.Mr. Riggins fought the man for a period of time until a...

  4. A Blind Man Can See
    date January 21, 1897map AUGUSTA, Virginiatags Health/Death, Education, Migration/Transportation

    On the seventh day, Dr. Edson said, Let there be light and there was for the blind man John Martin in 1897. Dr. Edson administered X-rays to Martin every day for a week as a treatment for blindness. He based his hypothesis on the improvement patients with atrophied muscles had when they received massages. Dr. Edson believed X-rays would accomplish the same for an atrophied optic nerve. Before the...

  5. Cabell comments on 1896 election
    date November 29, 1896 to 1896map NELSON, Virginiatags Government, Politics

    For the first time, William Cabell voted Republican and broke his loyalty to the

    Democrats. 1896 was a major year for presidential elections, and silver was the major

    political issue of the election year. At the time there were three political parties:

    Republicans, Democrats, and Populists. In a letter to his wife, William D. Cabell wrote

    about a conversation he had...

  6. The Bloomer in Alabama
    date December 9, 1896map GREENE, Alabamatags Arts/Leisure, Law, Politics, Women

    The bloomer was booming in Alabama. Passing by a young lady on the street one fine afternoon, an elderly Alabama politician caught an eyeful. Was she wearing an article of male clothing? The Greeneville Advocate documented the growing women's fashion trend with a sense of urgency: THE BLOOMER IN ALABAMA. The article informed the readership of the so-called Alabama Bill in the December...

  7. A Visit From Booker T. Washington
    date November 17, 1896map HENRICO, Virginiatags African-Americans, Health/Death, Economy, Education, Government, Law

    The black man would have hope on this Tuesday evening.On November 17, 1896, Booker T. Washington addressed a large crowd of people at First Baptist Church in Richmond.The event was covered by the Virginia Planet, an African American newspaper based in Richmond.The subject of the speech given by Mr. Washington centered around industrial force.According to the Planet, the event attracted the largest...

  8. Religion Spawns Murder in South Carolina
    date March 1, 1897map RICHLAND, South Carolinatags Church/Religious-Activity, Crime/Violence

    On the last day of February 1897, according to The State, John Yochum was shot and killed by a coworker from the Richland mill, Bryce McComb. When McComb, a young man not yet of age, approached Yochum, a man of 53, to reprimand him for his treatment of another worker, Owens, the elder retaliated with violence. Owens had approached a group of his coworkers asking them if they would have...

  9. Portsmouth Star calls attention to water purification
    date September 5, 1896 to 1896map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Health/Death, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    During the late nineteenth century, urbanization prompted mass migrations of

    southerners to cities. This caused crowding within the cities and soon sanitation became

    an issue. Despite the problems, it was not until the last two decades of the 1800's that

    cities started addressing this problem. However, once it started in one city, others started

    following suit....

  10. Southern Methodist minister Sam Jones speaks to 150,000 people during crusade to Atlanta
    date October, 1896map FULTON, Georgiatags Church/Religious-Activity

    By 1896, the Alabama-born evangelist Sam Jones was the most famous itinerant preacher in the South. His crusade to Atlanta drew an enormous crowd and demonstrated how much his “equal opportunity' sermons, in which he was “hard on everyone,' resonated with a Southern audience. In an age of emerging political demagogues all over the South such as Ben Tillman and Tom Watson, Ed Ayers...

  11. Hurricane destroys much of Cedar Key, FL
    date September 29, 1896map LEVY, Floridatags Health/Death

    A hurricane with 135-mph winds caused millions of dollars worth <br />of damage and scores of deaths at Cedar Key, FL. The hurricane demolished two hotels, several churches and schoolhouses and many other buildings while the storm also hit lumber and turpentine industries extremely hard. The storm caused major floods, which begat fires throughout the city. The hurricane so damaged the Florids...

  12. Crimes of Hate
    date September 4, 1896map HENRICO, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Law

    Hatred and Prejudice went hand in hand in the late nineteenth century south.The end of the Civil War did not mean the end of oppression and violence.On September 4, 1896, a young black boy was being held on account of a felonious assault on a white girl in the Richmond area.The boy was being held prisoner in the custody of city police awaiting his trial.Following a preliminary hearing at the courthouse,...

  13. Susan B. Anthony's Personal Letter on Funding
    date May 25, 1897map MONROE, New Yorktags Womens Suffrage Organization

    In a letter to Mrs. Gross, Susan B. Anthony discussed her plans for raising money for Woman's suffrage and the current actions of the International Council of Women. A woman she spoke about throughout her letter was Reverend Anna Shaw, noting her array of lectures throughout the North. Reverend Shaw was an ordained Methodist minister, physician, temperance lecturer, woman's suffrage speaker,...

  14. The Diagreement on Lynchings
    date May 29, 1897map HENRICO, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Economy, Law, Race-Relations, Slavery, Women

    On May 29, 1897, any black or white, native, or immigrant, man or woman, who picked up The Richmond Planet, would have been saddened to see that already, not even half way into the year, 28 people had been lynched throughout the nation; those 28 included, whites, blacks, men, and women. The first lynching happened just five days into the new year. Each week the names, race, alleged crimes, place...

  15. Lynching in the South
    date August 1, 1896map FULTON, Georgiatags Crime/Violence, african americans

    Run, Ed, run. This is what was probably going through Ed Aiken’s mind when he realized that he could not catch Sallie Harris, a young white lady. Ed Aiken was a black man who was on his way to work on Joe Maddox’s farm. Sallie was leaving her grandmother’s home and was going to her home, the farm of J.F. Harris, a well-known farmer in the Conyers, Georgia area. When Sallie got home and told...

  16. Judson Lyons Rejected as Postmaster of Augusta, GA
    date July 1, 1897map RICHMOND, Georgiatags African-Americans, Race-Relations

    Under the heading “Not a Negro' the Birmingham's Age-Herald reported that Augusta, Georgia would not have a “colored postmaster'. Judson Lyons, the African American under consideration, “will not be postmaster of Augusta' said Secretary Gary of Georgia. He gave his reasons, saying that “a colored man would be elected postmaster and this was a social and political...

  17. Systematic Volunteer Work and Grassroots Efforts in Fairhope
    date January, 1897 to 1897map BALDWIN, Alabamatags Economy, Government

    The desire to awaken the noble impulses of humanity and to reform society along socioeconomic lines was something that the founders of Fairhope had as specific goals, outlined by the single tax principle. Just like other progressive movements at the time in the South though, the ideals blueprinted by the intellectuals could not be . In January of 1897 nearly all the members of the Fairhope community...

  18. Mobile Child Labor Reform Laws in 1897
    date 1897map MOBILE, Alabamatags Health/Death, Economy, Law, Politics

    The movement to reform child labor laws identified a new difficulty in the late part of the 1890's. In the year of 1897 citizens of Mobile and their representative Thomas H. Smith presented a series of bills to the Alabama Senate regarding child labor reform. These bills were purported to have come from the Mobile Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge. All were shot down in committees....

  19. An Influx of Irish Immigrant: Young Women arrive in New York
    date 1897map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Irish, Women, Immigration

    The woman from Ireland looked around the chaos on Ellis Island visibly upset, as the immigration officials accused her of giving them the wrong name of the person picking her up.  Migrations to the United States “did not always occur without problems or disruptions and occasionally the colleen arrived with no one to greet her.”[1]  On April 30, 1897, The New York Times published an article...

  20. Bertha Bülow-Wendhausen and the Women of America
    date 1897map KINGS, New York, SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Women, Travel

    Bertha Bülow-Wendhausen was pleasantly surprised when she arrived in America in 1897. The women she observed here in America were a welcome change compared to what she was used to in Europe. While in her homeland, women were "mannish" in appearance and unfeminine; the women she found in America were content to be women. She found no discontent in the way they behaved, in the way they dressed, or...

  21. Bertha Bülow-Wendhausen and the Children of America
    date 1897map KINGS, New York, SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Travel, Children

    Bertha admired the small children in America. They were very well behaved, but they were too mature for their age. Children this young must not be too reflective or solemn, but playful and carefree. Kindergarten would remedy this and mold children into what they were supposed to be. The children were also very polite and respectful to their elders, a trait, Bertha noted, that was lacking in many...

  22. A Change in Direction
    date January 6, 1897 to 1897map BALTIMORE, Marylandtags Education, Government, Politics, Race-Relations

    1897 was an important year for the educational system of Maryland, and subsequently, the South as a whole. Mayor Hooper of Baltimore, Maryland was becoming upset with the members of the school board. He strongly felt that the board of school commissioners were becoming too political in their decisions and straying from the board's intent to deliver the best quality of education to all public...

  23. William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech
    date July 8, 1896map HENRICO, Virginiatags Economy

    This speech, delivered at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, made Nebraska's William Jennings Bryan famous across the United States. His call for calculating the value of the United States dollar based on silver rather than a gold standard held particular appeal for poor farmers, many of which were located in the South. The resulting inflation caused by adhering to a silver...

  24. Closing of Ware High School
    date July 10, 1897map RICHMOND, Georgiatags Education, Race-Relations

    Founded by one of the most prominent educators in the country, Mr. Richard A. Wright, Ware High School was the first high school for African-Americans in all of Georgia. A secondary school for African-Americans, it was seen as symbol of interracial cooperation for many in the community. In 1897 Ware High School was thriving, nearly doubling its number of students and even added an assistant teacher...

  25. Granted in Advance at the Fairmount mines in West Virginia
    date July 12, 1897map BARBOUR, West Virginiatags Crime/Violence, Economy

    On the 12th of July, the operators of 17 mines in Fairmount Country (W.Va.), constituting the Fairmount oil region, gave their miners an advance of 0.05. This increase brings the prices to 40 cents a ton on running coal in effect on July 14th and is 0.13 on the ton more than the Pennsylvania and Ohio men are striking for. This was a very significant move considering the massive strike occurring...