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- Bus Driver, Age 18, Killed in Head-On Collision At Work
January 20, 1953
Clarendon, South Carolina
Clarendon County, workplace safety, highway safety, Buses, African-Americans, South CarolinaThe certificate kept by the Clarendon Memorial Hospital records the death of Willie Lemon, an 18-year-old bus driver involved in a head-on collision on the highway near Jordan, South Carolina, on January 20, 1953. Vital information is recorded on Lemon. He was occupied as a school bus driver. He is listed as an unmarried, colored male from Manning, South Carolina, with no social security number. His...
- Slave Sarah Frances Shaw Graves Recalls an Unjust Whipping 1860 NODAWAY, Missouri African-Americans, Slavery, Women
Sarah Frances Shaw Graves was born a slave in Missouri. She was interviewed in her later years as a part of the slave narratives taken when she was free. One story she related was of a Sunday when she attended a wedding for her master’s kinfolks. The bride walked into the church and someone kicked dust onto the bride’s dress, but it was not Graves. She, however, got blamed for it and the master’s...
- Effectively Speaking: Booker T. Washington’s Speech at the “Atlanta Exposition” September 15, 1895 MACON, Alabama Speeches, Principal, Cotton States, Black Americans, Exposition, Educational Tour, Tuskegee Normal and Indus, Atlanta Exposition, African-Americans, Booker T. Washington
The time had come to deliver his speech. As principal of an all-Black school he realized the importance of conveying his message carefully at the opening of “the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition in Tuskegee, Alabama”. Standing in front of a large gathering the principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute understood his words had to be effective. He looked into a sea of anxious white...
- Teenage School bus Drivers, Black and White, Crash on South Carolina Highway January 20, 1953 Clarendon, South Carolina African-Americans, Desegregation, Transportation, Segregation, Supreme Court, Children, Public Schools, Black History, Black Schools, South Carolina, Buses
“W.H. Ridgeway, the 16-year-old driver of the white bus, sobbed in his hospital bed and told his mother over and over how sorry he was the wreck had happened” The Columbia State, South Carolina’s largest newspaper, reported this pitiful scene on January 21st, 1953, under the front-page headline, “Clarendon School Bus Crash Kills 2”. The State ran no pictures of the crash, but the details...
- When Will It Ever Change? July 11, 1930 New York, New York Crime/Violence, African-Americans, Lynching
News stories relating ‘death by accident,’ ‘murder by one of own’ or even an ‘unsolved mystery’ are just too far-fetched to explain the discovery of so many ‘Negro’ bodies found in the swamps or in uninhabited places in 1930. It is inconceivable to think that the white tyrannical press believe that we are fooled by their fabrications about the missing southern ‘Negro’ workers,”...
- Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment Examined by HEW July 26, 1972 Madison, Illinois African-Americans, Health/Death, Medicine, Tuskegee, Syphilis, Study
On July 26, 1972 The Alton Evening Telegraph, a newspaper in Alton, Illinois, released an article discussing The Department of Health Education and Welfare's investigation of the Tuskegee Syphilis experiment. Although the experiment was conducted in Alabama, the news was a national story. Jean Heller, the author of the article, found this study so disturbing that she decided to report on it. The experiment’s...
- Pennsylvania Quaker William Still Fought Against the Evils of Slavery November 25, 1857 PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania African-Americans, Race-Relations, Law, Politics, Church/Religious-Activity, Crime/Violence, Health/Death
On November 25, 1857, William Still recorded a story that told of the horrors of slavery in the South. Still assisted a group of slaves on the journey to freedom by way of the Underground Railroad. He was among the abolitionists during this time that believed that blacks should be afforded equal rights and opportunities that would allow them to earn a living. Still did not feel that blacks were...
- Rebel General Gantt Tells Arkansas to Return to the Union November 8, 1863 to November 9, 1863 PULASKI, Arkansas Health/Death, African-Americans, Race-Relations, Government, Politics
Confederate Brigadier General E.W. Gantt spoke to his fellow citizens of Arkansas, but also to all of the citizens of the South in his 1863 address. The message in this address is that the Confederacy was fighting a war that they could never win and that the southern states would have more power and property if they would just return to the Union. The General blamed several of the problems in the...
- Attorney General William on Enforcement Acts April 2, 1875 Washington City, District of Columbia Government, Politics, Race-Relations, Crime/Violence, African-Americans
The Colfax massacre of 1872, believed to be the most devastating occurrence of racial violence during Reconstruction, resulted in the death of around 150 freedmen at the hands of white supremacists. The events at Colfax resulted in only three men to convicted. However, disagreement led to the case entering the Supreme Court in the form of United States v. Cruikshank in 1876. The case brought in to...
- Freedmen and Republicans Murdered in New Orleans July 30, 1866 ORLEANS, Louisiana Politics, Race-Relations, African-Americans, Crime/Violence
The New Orleans Riot occurred on July 30, 1866 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Whites instigated the riot and targeted freedmen. However, this riot was different from those of its time because it centered primarily on disagreements regarding Reconstruction policies. Radical Republicans were unhappy with former Confederates gaining power and influence under Governor Wells. Wells himself eventually noticed...