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- I Was Not Saved to Run
December 25, 1956
Jefferson, Alabama
alabama, Violence, Race Relations, African American, Civil RightsIt was Christmas 1956. Taking the place of presents and songs, Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and family woke up to the sound of sixteen dynamites exploding from underneath their home. By looking at photographs of the damage, you would think everything within ten feet of the home was dead. However, Shuttlesworth and his family reemerge unharmed. Shuttlesworth being a religious man gave God...
- Andrew Johnson Provokes the Radical Republicans 1865 to 1867 Washington City, District of Columbia Government, Politics, Race Relations, Constitution
Johnson was impeached for violating a number of laws, but was acquitted. He attempted to accomplish a number of things while trying to get former Confederate states back into the Union, but he did so in an improper manner. In 1868 the House of Representatives brought Andrew Johnson on trial for violating the Tenure of Office Act. According to The New York Times article, "The President's Future Course,"...
- Abolitionist Flogged for Allegedly Selling Pamphlets
August 3, 1833 to August 9, 1833 DAVIDSON, Tennessee Slavery, Race Relations, Crime/Violence
Amos Dresser, a student at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, left the college after a ban on an anti-slavery society and traveled through the upper south selling bibles. While travelling through Nashville, Tennessee, Dresser took his carriage to a local shop for repairs. A workman rummaging through the carriage found a store of anti-slavery letters, books and pamphlets. According to Dresser,...
- Race Relations and Labor Unions in Nineteenth Century New Orleans
1883 ORLEANS, Louisiana Labor Union, Race Relations
The history of the nineteenth century United States rarely speaks of racial cooperation, however evidence of a few such scenarios are historically documented. The end of slavery in the United States all but destroyed the agrarian economy of the southern states, and even with the constitutional abolition of slavery racial hostility ran high throughout the country. Yet as the country attempted to rebuild...
- Local Chinese React to Imperial Decree
1910 to 1911 Orleans, Louisiana Migration/Transportation, Immigration, Urban-Life/Boosterism, Race Relations, New Orleans, China
When Americans think of Chinatown, they rarely associate it with New Orleans, but at the turn of the twentieth century, New Orleans was the only southern city with a population of Chinese immigrants significant enough to constitute a Chinatown. Like other immigrants in America, the Chinese in New Orleans had to balance the ongoing connections and relationships back home with the opportunities presented...
- A New Home for Sex in New Orleans
July 11, 1892 to December 31, 1897 ORLEANS, Louisiana African-Americans, Government, Race Relations, Urban-Life/Boosterism
In 19th century America, many men enjoyed the services of prostitutes but disliked prostitution. This ironic dichotomy was very evident amongst the upper class men of New Orleans, and it heavily influenced the future landscape of the city. With a 'not in my backyard' view of prostitution, the wealthy males of New Orleans, although many were clients of prostitutes, did not want their homes and families...
- Reverend L. D. Dewey Writes to Support Colonization
June, 1825 to 1825 BALTIMORE, Maryland Slavery, Race Relations
As the Reverend L. D. Dewey wrote to Reverend W. M'Kenney from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, he reflected upon his observations from the African colony he had just visited. The letter he produced in June 1825 portrayed sentiments expressed throughout the nation at the time on African colonization. He described the colony of Haiti in the most positive light, depicting the colony as a haven of liberties...