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Dixon is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Webster County, Kentucky, United States. [2] The population was 933 at the 2020 census. Dixon is located at the junction of US 41A and KY 132. It was established with a courthouse and post office in 1860 when the county was formed.
Dixon, who had Scottish ancestry, drew upon the Scottish tradition of the Crann Tara, a burning cross used to call clan members to arms, as inspiration for the depiction of cross burning. [31] The Klan's white robes are also an invention of Dixon, and he protested their appropriation of the "livery" he created. [5]
Leonard Woods was a 30-year-old Black miner who lived in Jenkins, Kentucky.Jenkins was a new company town in Letcher County, built to accommodate the workers of the Consolidation Coal Company, or Consol, which was opening mines on the Cumberland Plateau in Eastern Kentucky, and had managed to get the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to extend its line to serve its needs.
Since 1947, Barbaro in 2006 and Mine That Bird in 2009 are tied for the largest winning margin in the Kentucky Derby. Each horse won the race by 6 1/2 lengths. Largest odds for winners.
I first learned of the Corbin Expulsion through a writing contest conducted by Virginia’s Barter Theatre in 2021. Playwrights were invited to select from a list of historical events experienced ...
The federal Civil Rights Division’s Cold Case Unit is conducting the review of the massacre, according to ABC News. The violence took place in Tulsa, Okla., on May 31 and June 1, 1921 when a ...
An exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Museums not only collect and preserve historic and cultural material, their basic purpose is educational or aesthetic. The first African American museum was the College Museum in Hampton, Virginia, established in 1868. [2]
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a review and evaluation of the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke said. The massacre started on May 31 ...