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  1. Southside Virginians in the Spanish American War
    date 1898 to 1899map CAMPBELL, Virginiatags Agriculture, Government, War

    July 31 - Pendleton, Charles - Harris Creek - Amherst County - Railroad Brakesman - 27 years of age - Single - 5'7.5 - 136 pounds - Chest Measurement 34 and 36.5 - Ruddy Complexion - Blue Eyed - Light Brown Hair - Accepted - Vaccinated was how the many Army documents read in the collection of James Dearing Fauntleroy. All of them were Army documents titled Monthly Report of Physical Examination...

  2. The Hanging of Walter Cotton
    date 1898 to 1900map GREENSVILLE, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    In the summer of 1900 Brandt O'Grady, an Irish immigrant was hanged along side Walter Cotton, a ginger colored negro, by a mob of angry Virginians at the Greensville County courthouse. The hanging was in retaliation for the brutal murder of several white individuals around Greensville County, including the 1898 murder of Charles Wyatt, a storeowner from Portsmouth, Virginia. After escaping from...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. The Tampa Museum of Art and it's History
    date January 1, 1899 to March 8, 1900map POLK, Floridatags art, African-Americans

    The Tampa Museum of Art reveals the history and diversity of works by black artists. There are many pieces of work that date all the way back to the 1850s. While there are primarily African American artists in the museum there are also White artists. The museum includes major artists such as Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, and Henry O. Tanner.

    Though many of the dates are approximate...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  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,...

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