On this Sunday afternoon, Same Hose, sometimes also referred to as Sam Holt, was killed in front of a crowd of 2,000 white spectators, many of whom had traveled from Atlanta for the occasion. Hose, a farm laborer, was accused of murdering his employer, Alfred Cranford, after a dispute broke out over wages and of brutally attacking his wife, although sources differ on the precise details of the encounter....
George Washington was an important figure in the South in the 1900s, as he himself was a southerner from Virginia. After the Confederacy seceded from the Union and created the Constitution of the confederacy they turned to Washington as a symbol of their patriotism. An image of Washington was put on the seal of the Confederacy and on a postage stamp suggesting that the Confederacy, not the Union,...
The United Daughters of the Confederacy was founded in 1895 in Atlanta, Georgia. Southern women integrated religion with the promotion of the Lost Cause. They often closed letters with, “Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet. Lest we forget. Lest we forget'. Monuments constructed under their supervision were mostly of armed Confederate soldiers facing the north, and were placed in public...
People in the United States and around the world began to utilize the newly developed railroad system during the nineteenth century. People shipped numerous items by means of the railroad. Southern natives such as Phoebe Yates-Levy Pember, a native of Savannah, Georgia also utilized the new system. Pember spent the years 1895-1899 traveling around Europe. In 1899 she sent home to Savannah a package...
On August 31 of 1899, a brief letter from E.B. Hill, Telegraph Editor of the Detroit Journal, was published in the Jackson Weekly Clarion Ledger. Mr. Hill, it appeared, had inherited a Civil War era relic from his father, who had received it from a member of a troop of Michigan cavalry. The relic itself was an ornamental Bowieknife with a six-inch blade, horn handle, German silver mounted. The sheath...
Black members of the International Longshoremen's Association quit work until their demand that the United States Shipping Company at Newport News fired all non-union white men. On August 31, 1899, the unofficial strike of the black men disrupted the handling and loading of ships in the Warwick County port. However, within one day, the shipping company had obtained nearly one hundred white men...
William Goebel won the Democratic party's nomination in December, 1899 for Governor of Kentucky. In light of the fact that the Democratic party had previously been a Confederate dominated party, it was unusual for the Pennsylvanian to win the nomination. His following was mainly composed of young democrats. His campaign was extremely ambitious and well organized. He stood for controlling...
The July 31, 1899 report by the superintendent of public schools in Norfolk Virginia illustrated the disparity between white and black students in regards to educational opportunity and proficiency. School Superintendent Richard A. Dobie filed the report, at the request of Norfolk Mayor C. Brooks Johnston. Though the Report was not intended to make any political or social gestures, analysis of the...
The death of Patrick McDonald, a Suffolk resident, in April of 1899, was carried out in a brutal and premeditated manner. Accused of the crime were two white men, Sam Beale and James Brittle, and a colored man named Edward White. The September 7, 1899 issue of the Virginian-Pilot describes how the men are accused of the brutal bludgeoning of McDonald and then placing his body on train tracks. However...
On February 3, 1899, an aging Confederate soldier from Portsmouth, identifying himself only as C.M.B. wrote to the Virginian-Pilot in response to Senator Marion Butler's proposed bill that would open up federal pension plans to all veterans of the Civil War. Despite a divide among many Southerners about the honor of accepting federal pension, C.M.B. argues, Why then should ex Confederates prefer...