Hanging the Slave Traders
Books with the title of The Newgate Calendar were published as early as the mid-eighteenth century. Mostly they were collections of “Last Dying Speeches” of criminals and short biographies...
Category : History
The Story Behind This Iconic Image of a Black Woman Pushing Aside a National Guardsman’s Bayonet
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She speaks to many of us — a black woman, dressed in a buttoned shirt and jeans, pushing aside a National Guardsman’s bayonet as though...
Buck Franklin
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Buck Franklin was an attorney in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who is most notably known for defending the survivors of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. He...
How a long-dead white supremacist still threatens the future of Virginia’s Indian tribes
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Virginia’s Indian tribes have faced numerous obstacles in their decades-old quest for federal recognition. But one person has long stood in their way — and...
Less than a century ago, 20,000 people traveled to Kentucky to see a white woman hang a black man
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Daviess County sheriff Florence Thompson had held the position for only a few months when the Rainey Bethea case landed on her desk. Bethea had...
Anthony Crawford
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In Abbeville South Carolina Saturday, October 21, 1916, a white mob lynched a black leader named Anthony Crawford for cursing a white man. A 56-year-old...
Scars of Gordon, a whipped Louisiana slave, 1863
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The famous “whipped slave” photograph pictures the runaway slave Gordon exposing his severely whipped back to the camera of two itinerant photographers, William D. McPherson...
Ax Handle Saturday
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More than 200 white people wielding baseball bats and ax handles chased African Americans through the streets of downtown Jacksonville, trying to beat them into...
Francisco Félix de Souza
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Born probably in 1768, Francisco Félix de Souza arrived in Africa in 1788, to take command of the fortress of São João Batista de Ajudá,...
8 Things We Know About Crispus Attucks
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On the evening of March 5, 1770, British troops fired into a crowd of angry American colonists in Boston who had taunted and violently harassed...