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Hace 4 días · Transcription. The lynching of Jim Henderson, Bud Rowlands, and John Rolla, the first two at Rockport, Indiana and the last at Booneville, Indiana, Dec. 16th and 17th, 1900 by a mob of irresponsible citizens was without a shadow of palliation or excuse.
Hace 16 horas · Cover of an early edition of "Jump Jim Crow" sheet music (c. 1832) Freedmen voting in New Orleans, 1867 During the Reconstruction era of 1865–1877, federal laws provided civil rights protections in the U.S. South for freedmen , African Americans who were former slaves, and the minority of black people who had been free before the war.
Hace 4 días · March 20, 1897. Summary. A white mob of would be murderers attempt to lynch a black man in response to an assault charge on a white man. Transcription. An unsuccessful attempt at lynching of William Clement Monday, March 15th at Rustburg, Va., was a dastardly affair and deserves the severest condemnation of right thinking men everywhere.
Hace 4 días · Passi, Peter. “Duluth’s New Police Chief Acknowledges Great-aunt’s Role in 1920 Lynching.” Forum News Service, June 18, 2016. “Second Duluth Man Guilty of Lynching Riot.” Minneapolis Tribune, September 11, 1920. “Ten More Indictments in Duluth Lynching Case.” Minneapolis Tribune, July 15, 1920. “Three Juries to Try Duluth Riot ...
Hace 3 días · A day before Brown’s lynching, U.S. Sen. John Sharp Williams proclaimed that “the protection of a woman transcends all law of every description, human or divine,” legitimizing the mostly sex ...
Hace 3 días · James Stephen Hogg. March 24, 1851–March 3, 1906. The governorship of James Stephen Hogg, from 1891 to 1895, has been a benchmark for Texas governors ever since. Hogg was born in 1851 and grew up near Rusk. As a young man, he worked as a typesetter in a newspaper office and later published newspapers in East Texas while studying for a law degree.
Hace 4 días · The lynching was one of 4,000 documented in the South from 1877 to 1950. Through painstaking research, Johnson found 1926 newspaper clippings that said Byrd, a World War I veteran, had...
