On April 23rd, 1889, “...Scott Baily, colored, made a desperate but unsuccessful attempt to commit an outrage on the person of one of the most prominent young ladies in the village. ; Baily was caught soon afterwards, confessed his crime, and was lynched about midnight.' The ritual act of lynching was used by white Southerners to literally destroy the humanity of the black victim, but...
On April 24, 1889, The Episcopal Methodist, a Baltimore, Maryland newspaper, published an article by the Reverend J. M. Hawley entitled Southern Methodism and the Age, calling for the Methodist Church to reform itself in order to be a success in the modern age. Hawley called the present age a great period for both the Church and the country. The Church, he said, must embrace the age and modernize...
Two Glascock County, Georgia residents returned to their home in Gibson, expecting nothing out of the ordinary. Yet on this day in early April 1889, a group of local citizens waited for their arrival. Upon their return, the group strongly advised that the two residents, who happened to be of the Mormon faith, leave immediately. The warning proved effective as the Mormons departed from the area shortly...
During an eight month period, William A. Moats wrote love letters to Nela Miller. Each letter was structurally similar to the previous, always commenting on his good health and the hope that the letter reached her well. Moat made continually plans to visit her and her family in the months the correspondence took place. As the letters evolved chronologically, his profession of his undying love for...
For many women in the South, the Women's Christian Temperance Union served as an opportunity to organize with other women, gain public career skills, and work outside the home. This experience was later able to transfer in women's work for suffrage. Belle Kearney, a leader within the WCTU and later a women's suffragist, wrote about the beginning of her career in the WCTU in her autobiography,...