A flyer stating “Colored Citizens Mass Meeting” describes the movement of African-American pastors to change the view of the “Negro Race.”. The flyer describes the place and time that congregations would meet and the objectives of the meeting. The meeting was called in an attempt to “protest against colored women visiting barrooms and barroom premises [and] also against children visiting...
Two men stand between the ropes among a crowd of blood thirsty white faces. In the United States, a black man physically assaulting a white man would have resulted in a lynching; however, when colorful trunks and padded gloves are added to the skirmish, the event becomes a spectacle.
Late Victorian culture identified the powerful, large male body of the heavyweight prizefighter...
In search of better living conditions, George W. McMechen and his family became the first black people to live on Baltimore’s McCulloh Street in June of 1910. Their windows were smashed, and someone threw a brick high enough to damage the skylight of their three story home. Young boys were blamed for this act of vandalism, but McMechen doubted that a mere boy could hurl a brick to such a height....
Notebook in hand, Florence Danielson roamed the river valleys of Massachusetts in search of her research subjects, the ‘hill folk.’ Like other degenerate families studied by eugenicist field workers in early twentieth-century America, the hill folk were quite a fascinating group—constantly wreaking havoc wherever they settled. Feeblemindedness, alcoholism, and incest, among other deplorable...