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  1. Silencing Lynching
    date August 17, 1895map BALTIMORE CITY, Marylandtags Government, Race-Relations

    In the turbulent South of the late 19th century, the act of lynching was a well-established institution. This degrading act of vigilante violence was initiated to control; mainly African-Americans in a predominantly white society. A response article was written to the African-American Ledger, a black operated newspaper in Baltimore, rebuking these despicable acts towards a fellow human being. A spark...

  2. Stolen Bacon
    date April 30, 1866map FLUVANNA, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Government, Race-Relations

    In 1866 Virginia, grand larceny included stealing someone's bacon. In Fluvanna County, a black man named William Holly stole the bacon and other property belonging to a white woman named Beverly Haden. Haden pressed charges for the offense, and the accused stood trial for his crimes, and was found guilty. After emancipation, trials involving free blacks in the South were often conducted carefully to...

  3. 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 jail...

  4. The Implications of Racist Railroad Policies
    date 1851map MACON, Georgiatags African-Americans, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, Slavery

    The Macon and Western Railroad adopted a new policy in 1851 which prohibited all black people, regardless of their freed or enslaved status, from boarding any train unless they could prove the legitimacy of their travel. All African Americans had to have a written pass issued by the individual's owner or trustee. The office and the conductor both required a copy of it, and if the office was not familiar...

  5. Mr. Vermillion got between me and my freedom, so I killed him.
    date October 7, 1845map FAIRFAX, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Law, Race-Relations, Slavery

    The inhumane murder of James T. Vermillion by a runaway slave sparked a manhunt in Fairfax County. The slave, owned by Mr. William Brawner of Prince William County, had not gotten very far when Mr. Vermillion caught him near his house, Pleasant Valley, in Fairfax County. Upon apprehending the runaway, Mr. Vermillion was going to take him to the magistrate for a proper conviction and return to his...

  6. Mistaken Identity
    date February 14, 1893map HAMILTON, Tennesseetags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Law, Race-Relations, Women

    Mrs. M.A. Moore, widowed mother of seven grown children, was alone in her home one morning. As she went about her household business, a black man forced himself into her house and assaulted her. He then escaped, leaving Mrs. Moore in her house. The white population of Chattanooga was outraged that such an offense could be committed in broad daylight upon a well-respected white woman. So, they cast...

  7. The Account of a Slave Trader
    date November 15, 1849map HENRICO, Virginiatags Race-Relations, Slavery

    As its economy flourished with rapid growth in the iron industry, Richmond developed into one of the largest producers of tobacco and flour, not only in the United States, but the world. In a time when the slave trade provided a solution to America's desire for cheap labor, Richmond became a hub for exchange facilitation. The extension of new railroads into surrounding areas created a sense of nationalization...

  8. Louisiana Education During Reconstruction
    date December 29, 1870map JEFFERSON, Louisianatags African-Americans, Education, Race-Relations

    In 1870 the state of Louisiana's school Superintendent Thomas Conway found an outlet in which to place the blame for his suffering school system. Conway identified the Northern Peabody Education Fund as the root of many problems public Louisiana schools were facing; in particular, Conway cited the Fund as responsible for having created the growing trend of white parents taking their children out of...

  9. Finding Utopia in Baldwin County
    date November, 1894map BALDWIN, Alabamatags Economy, Race-Relations, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    In the summer of 1894 there was hope for a new way of life in the reconstruction of the South. E.B. Gaston took a group of people down to Baldwin County, Alabama on the Mobile Bay. A colony free from all forms of private monopoly, a colony where working people could come together to form a single-tax community was founded. Members of the Fairhope Industrial Association were all followers of economist...

  10. Two African Americans Hung in St. James Parish, Louisiana
    date September 21, 1871map ST JAMES, Louisianatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Law, Race-Relations

    Led up the stars to the wooden platform, shackled and eerily subdued, two unnamed African American men marched solemnly to their deaths. The guards shoved them into place while the executioner waited with anticipation for his cue to drop the platforms supporting the prisoners' feet. The sheriff and jailer looked on with authoritative indifference; death for these two men was drawing ever closer....

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