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Corbin, Kentucky race riot of 1919 was a race riot in 1919 in which a white mob forced nearly all of Corbin's 200 black residents onto a freight train out of town.
The lynching of the Walker family took place near Hickman, Fulton County, Kentucky, on October 3, 1908, at the hands of about fifty masked Night Riders. [1] David Walker was a landowner, with a 21.5-acre (8.7 ha) farm.
I was even more surprised to discover that the incident in Corbin was one of approximately 35 “race riots” that had occurred that year in the United States. The period is referred to as “The ...
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.
Dickerson, also known as Richard Dollon, came to Springfield from Cynthiana, Kentucky. [2] Some people who knew him spoke of his "bad reputation." On Sunday, 6 March 1904, he had an altercation with a woman whom he called his wife, and he asked police sergeant Charles B. Collis to help him retrieve something from her.
The Springfield race riot of 1908 consisted of events of mass racial violence committed against African Americans by a mob of about 5,000 white Americans and European immigrants in Springfield, Illinois, between August 14 and 16, 1908. Two black men had been arrested as suspects in a rape, and attempted rape and murder.
KENTUCKY — One of the most popular television shows, “Secrets of the Dead,” is bringing an 1865 Civil War massacre in Kentucky to life this October.The episode will focus on the events of ...
Dixon portrays the Radical Republican speaker of the house, Austin Stoneman (based on Thaddeus Stevens, from Pennsylvania), as a rapacious, vindictive, race traitor, mad with power and eaten up with hate. His goal is to punish the Southern whites for their revolution against an "oppressive" government (the Union) by turning the former slaves ...