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  1. “Fight to Win!” Communists Fight for Workers
    date 1934map Jefferson, Alabamatags Race Relations, Government

    “Fight To Win!”The Communist Party in Birmingham, Alabama spread many fliers with this message throughout the 1930s. Communists urged miners and steel workers to fight for higher wages. The communists proclaimed to be “giving leadership to the workers and raising real demands for them.” They urged white and black workers to band together and claimed that the unity of the two races on this issue...

  2. An English traveler's view of the Civil War
    date November, 1864map JEFFERSON, Kentuckytags Race Relations, Civil War

    Racial tensions ran high in mid-to-late 19th century Louisville, Kentucky. The Civil War and slavery were two topics of main concern for many southerners. John Francis Campbell, a man from England who visited America in the fall of 1864 wrote of his travels in his memoir, “A Short American Tramp on the Fall of 1864.” As he writes of Louisville, one can feel not only the racial tension, but the...

  3. French women's impression of American race relations
    date November 11, 1918 to May 1, 1919map Dist Columbia, District of Columbiatags Travel, Race Relations

      Comtesse Madeleine de Bryas and her sister Jacqueline were born, raised and cultured in Paris.  During 1918, the two sisters were in the United States for six months to raise funds for the “American Committee for Devastated France”  by giving speeches. While they travelled shore to shore by train they liked America and the American people they met.  They had wonderful comments about American...

  4. Diary of Belle Edmondson, January-November, 1864
    date January, 1864 to 1864map FRANKLIN, Tennesseetags Race Relations, african americans, Civil War, Slavery

    In the midst of the Civil War, one woman remained behind the scenes of the battlefield documenting the war and experiencing the fighting first hand.  Belle Edmondson kept a diary from January to November of 1864 in which she detailed occurrences in West Tennessee such as the Union and Confederate battles, tragic accidents of friends, visitations by friends and family, travel to various southern cities,...

  5. 1876 Conservative Resurgence in South Carolina Makes an Appeal to Black Voters
    date September 16, 1876map ABBEVILLE, South Carolinatags Electoral Campaigns, Redemption, African American Suffrage, Civil Rights, Race Relations, Politics, Crime/Violence, African-Americans

    In the 1876 election, The Democratic Party in South Carolina overthrew Republican control of state government, resulting in what was called the “Redemption” of the state.  Using every means at their disposal, the Democrats employed paramilitary “rifle clubs”, violence, intimidation, and electoral fraud to reassert white, Democratic control over the state.  At the head of the party was wealthy...

  6. Cruelty in Florida Slave Plantations Leads to Apology and Changes Race Relations
    date 1845 to 1870map LEON, Floridatags Slavery, Race Relations, Apology to Slaves, Reparations for Slavery

    Florida was the sixth state to apologize for slavery, along with Alabama, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and New Jersey.[1]  In Florida, legislation has been considered to atone the vicious and inexcusable actions of slavery.  According to the article, Giving Slaves a Voice, Gary R. Mormino explains “one cannot begin to comprehend the history of Florida without understanding slavery.”[2] ...

  7. Zora Neale Hurston: Improving Race Relations through African Folklore
    date June 8, 1932 to October 10, 1934map Orange, Floridatags Race Relations, African American Folklore, Education

    Zora Neale Hurston made contributions to the acceptance of African Americans in society through her noteworthy folklore writing.  Hurston was an inhabitant of Florida, but resided in New York City when she wrote a letter to Professor Grover on June 8th 1932.[1]  In her letter, she explains that she majored in Anthropology at Columbia University.  Furthermore, she states “I have done three years...

  8. African Americans in the Seminole Hotel
    date 1886map ORANGE, Floridatags Economy, Race Relations, african americans

    Observing the history of Winter Park, the Seminole Hotel which was built in 1886 is one location that is significant in many ways to the American Life, especially for African Americans. The Seminole Hotel was a grand resort in Lake Osceola and it was a vacation destination which attracted many wealthy northerners who were escaping the unpleasant weather from their home towns. While it is evident that...


  9. date October 5, 1974map Suffolk, Massachusettstags african americans, Race Relations, Education

    South Bostonians, mostly Irish-Americans, felt frustrated and angry after just three weeks of forced busing in 1974 according to the New York Times. Federal Judge W. Arthur Garity ordered busing because he felt that “the local school authorities operated a deliberately segregated system.” During the three weeks school was open, there had already been altercations, including “a lunch-tray hurling,...

  10. Los Angelinos React to the 1992 Riots
    date May, 1992map Los Angeles, Californiatags Reactions to Violence, Race Relations

        Los Angeles in 1992 was a vast, amorphous city, sliced-up into innumerable racial and ethnic enclaves, which a mass of interconnecting highways did little to integrate. The bloody race riots in the Spring of 1992 killed fifty-three people, injured thousands more, led to rape and widespread looting, and the destruction of buildings by vandalism and burning, altogether causing around one billion...

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