Episodes Nearest to July 1, 1899 to July 30, 1899: 1 through 25 of 25

  1. Confederate Soldier Reunion and the Return of a Regiment from Manila
    date July, 1899map DAVIDSON, Tennesseetags African-Americans, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, War

    A conflict ensued in Nashville, Tennessee in 1899 when the confederate reunion and the return of a regiment from Manila occurred simultaneously. The president of the local United Daughters of the Confederation firmly opposed the use of the United States flag at the reunion. Her protest proved unsuccessful. Although the United States flag was displayed, the Confederate veterans “marched “under...

  2. 9th B.Y.P.U.A. International Convention
    date July 13, 1899 to July 16, 1899map HENRICO, Virginiatags Church/Religious-Activity, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    The Baptist Young People's Union of America held its 9th international convention in Richmond, VA. From July13-16, 1899. Baptists were twice as prominent in the south than in the North, especially in rural areas where over eighty percent of Baptist churches were located. Richmond's appeal as a cultural and historical center of the south attracted a larger crowd. The event was promoted...

  3. Pensioning Confederate Soldiers
    date February 3, 1899 to 1899map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Health/Death, Politics, War

    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...

  4. Stole a Pocketbook
    date January 5, 1899 to 1899map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    On January 5, 1899 the Virginian-Pilot reported that a young black male in the town of Portsmouth, Virginia had stolen the pocketbook of a lady whose services he was filling. While this petty incident of crime was relatively unnoticed, buried in the middle of the paper, the style in which the brief story was written illustrates the social opinions in this southern city. The story goes on to describe...

  5. The Conjure Woman, and The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color LIne by Charles W. Chesnutt
    date 1899map CUMBERLAND, North Carolinatags Arts/Leisure, Race-Relations

    Charles W. Chesnutt was born to free blacks in Cleveland, OH in 1858. When he was eight years old his family returned to Fayetteville, NC. He began a teaching career and by 1880, he became the President of the Fayetteville State Normal School for Negroes. While in North Caroline, Chesnutt studied the culture, dialect, and superstitions of southern blacks. In 1883 he returned to Cleveland where...

  6. A Mayor Improves Baton Rouge
    date 1899map EAST BATON ROUG, Louisianatags African-Americans, Government, Politics, Race-Relations

    In the summer of 1899, Robert A. Hart, the mayor of the city of Baton Rouge in Louisiana, along with a small band of progressive citizens persuaded local property owners to approve a sequence of bond issues in order to improve the area. One of the issues cost 200,000 and paid for a new city hall, a new school, and paving of certain roads. Other issues went towards making new schools and hospitals...

  7. Birmingham's Industrial Boom
    date June 29, 1899map MONTGOMERY, Alabamatags Economy, War

    The figures were in: on June 29, 1899, the southern iron industry made the best showing in its history. Reporting an estimated 605,919 tons in 1899, pig iron movement in the South increased approximately seven fold from the preceding year's 83,821-ton figure. The Wall Street Journal noted, of this the Birmingham district shipped considerably over half. The Birmingham district was also responsible...

  8. Electricity Expands to Raleigh, NC
    date June 24, 1899map WAKE, North Carolinatags Economy, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    With the opening of the summer of 1899 came promises in North Carolina that electric light and power would soon be furnished to all of the towns located along the Seaboard Air Line, which ran between Raleigh, NC and Norfolk, VA. Senator Don Cameron of Pennsylvania was the head of a large syndicate being put together in Virginia and North Caroline that intended to expand electricity to these new...

  9. Benjamin Thomas Lynched
    date August 8, 1899map Alexandria City, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Law, Race-Relations

    On Tuesday, August 8, 1899 in Alexandria Virginia, news about the alleged assault on eight-year-old Lilly Clark by Benjamin Thomas, a black male, spread rapidly. On Sunday August 6, Clark claimed she went over to Thomas's home to retrieve an axe, which had been loaned to him. When she reached his house and explained why she had come, Thomas allegedly grabbed Clark and drew her to him. Clark,...

  10. Benjamin Thomas Lynched
    date August 8, 1899map Alexandria City, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Law, Race-Relations

    On Tuesday, August 8, 1899 in Alexandria Virginia, news about the alleged assault on eight-year-old Lilly Clark by Benjamin Thomas, a black male, spread rapidly. On Sunday August 6, Clark claimed she went over to Thomas's home to retrieve an axe, which had been loaned to him. When she reached his house and explained why she had come, Thomas allegedly grabbed Clark and drew her to him. Clark,...

  11. Murderers
    date April, 1899 to 1899map SUSSEX, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    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...

  12. Bradley Tyler Johnson's Woodlands
    date August 21, 1899map AMELIA, Virginiatags African-Americans, Agriculture, Migration/Transportation, Women

    In 1899 Bradley Tyler Johnson posted a flyer titled For lease on Ninety-Nine Year Terms that advertised a 99-year lease on his property, the Woodlands, located in Amelia County. Johnson had a very specific vision for the property; I want a colony of ten families from the Northwest to settle here, he wrote. Traditionally Southside Virginia, including Amelia County, had a rural background with very...

  13. Graduation Address at Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youth
    date June 7, 1899map CHATHAM, Georgiatags African-Americans, Education

    Bishop Benjamin William Arnett delivered a graduation address to the youths of the Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youth on June 7, 1899. In his speech Arnett spoke to the youths about the many commendable achievements of African Americans. He noted that the black race had gone through many changes throughout history and many more changes needed to occur. Arnett's speech mainly...

  14. Open Door Notes
    date September 6, 1899map WASHINGTON, Virginiatags Economy

    On September 6, 1899 Secretary of State John Hay wrote the Open Door Notes policy based on the open door principles and the preservation of Chinese integrity. The aim of this policy was to create equal opportunity within spheres of influence and among major world powers. Chinese customs tariffs were to be administered equally, there was to be no interference with treaty ports, and lastly railroad...

  15. Southern Railroad System Purchases the Carolina Midland
    date May 12, 1899map RICHLAND, South Carolinatags Agriculture, Economy, Migration/Transportation

    A newspaper in Barnwell, South Carolina reported in their May 11 edition that the Southern Railroad had purchased the Carolina Midland, a main road that cut across the state. The Railroad had recently purchased the South Carolina and the Georgia road. The Railroad intended to use this road to construct a direct line from Columbia, SC to Savannah, GA. Cities like Barnwell paid close attention to...

  16. The Confederate Army Holds A Reunion
    date April 12, 1899 to June 2, 1899map CHARLESTON, South Carolinatags War

    Right before the turn of the Twentieth Century, the former Confederate Army held a reunion in Charleston, South Carolina. Men from all ranks of the army descended upon the city where secession began to reminisce about their former exploits and their lost way of life. For example, Henry W. Feilden, a British aristocrat who had served in the Confederate Army, wrote from England, After reading the...

  17. Ninth International Sunday School Association Meets in Atlanta
    date April 27, 1899 to April 30, 1899map FULTON, Georgiatags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Race-Relations

    This religious meeting held in Atlanta brought together “some of the most prominent leaders in the entire Christian world', according to the Atlanta Constitution. Over the course of several days, these leaders met with religious leaders from across the country, as well as ordinary citizens of Atlanta to discuss topics of religion and to raise money for churches and Sunday schools across...

  18. Celebration of Centennial Anniversary of Methodism in Richmond
    date April 23, 1899 to April 28, 1899map HENRICO, Virginiatags Church/Religious-Activity

    To celebrate 100 years of Methodism in the city of Richmond, five days of services and prayer meetings were held in the state capitol. Thousands were in attendance and the zeal the event created led one reporter from the Dispatch to claim: “the celebration is in effect the same as a religious revival on a colossal scale'. <br /> Services began Sunday April 23 as crowds packed...

  19. Soldier Portrays Experiences in Army Hospital in Florida
    date April 23, 1899map DUVAL, Floridatags Health/Death, War

    In a letter written to a friend, Edwin L. Johnson describes his experiences in an army camp in Florida during the previous summer of 1898. Johnson's friend, Julius E. Boggs, forwarded the letter to the Charleston newspaper, the News and Courier, where it was published on June 18, 1899. Johnson volunteered for the army when the Spanish-American War broke out in 1898 and was enlisted into the...

  20. Brutal Lynching of Sam Hose
    date April 23, 1899map COWETA, Georgiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    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....

  21. Independent Negro League of Kentucky
    date October 10, 1899map JEFFERSON, Kentuckytags African-Americans

    Southern Negroes were mostly aligned with the Republican Party through the 1870's. In the 1880s Republicans began to lose hold on their Negro supporters. In October of 1883 the Supreme Court declared the Civil Rights Act unconstitutional, and after the compromise of 1877 Godkin decreed the impossibility of incorporating a Negro into “a system of government for which you and I would have...

  22. Regulator Mob Burns RIchard Coleman
    date October, 1899map MASON, Kentuckytags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Race-Relations

    The South was a region characterized by extreme violence following the civil war, much of which resulted from racial tensions. The flagrant racism found throughout the south explains why the majority of murders were committed by white men against black victims. However, many killings of blacks remained unreported as they often went unpunished. All murder cases in which the victim was white were...

  23. Institutional Inequality
    date July 31, 1899 to 1899map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags African-Americans, Education

    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...

  24. Southern Industrial Convention
    date October 19, 1899map MADISON, Alabamatags Economy, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    The Huntsville chamber of commerce called for the Southern Industrial Convention to discuss southern industrial conditions. The convention was attended by all southern states. The convention lasted for six days allotting time for the discussion of the industrial condition of each state individually. Booker T. Washington spoke on the impact of racial relations on southern industry, and Senator...

  25. Lost and Found
    date August 31, 1899 to 1899map HINDS, Mississippitags Migration/Transportation, War

    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...