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Antonio Rodriguez was the first victim who died due to La Matanza in 1910. [2] He was a 20-year-old migrant worker who had moved from Mexico to Rocksprings, Texas, in search of work. [2] On November 2, he was accused of murdering a white Texan, [2] [14] arrested, and jailed. On November 3, 1910, a mob took him from his jail cell and burned him ...
Headline and lead paragraph in The Salt Lake Herald-Republican of July 31, 1910. The Slocum massacre was the killing of Black residents by whites on July 29–30, 1910, in Slocum, an unincorporated community in Anderson County near Palestine in East Texas. Only seven deaths were officially confirmed, but some 22 were reported by major newspapers.
1910 – 7 executions # Executed person Race Age Sex Date of execution Crime(s) Governor 334: Gus Thomas: Black: 24: M: 26-Feb-1910: Murder: Thomas Mitchell Campbell
This map is the earliest recorded document of Texas history. ... Houston (79,000 in 1910) was a rail and oil center; it competed with Dallas (92,000), the banking and ...
According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 198 in 2018. It is located within the Palestine, Texas micropolitan area. Slocum is notable as the site of what is known as the Slocum massacre, an unprovoked attack by a large mob of whites on what was then a majority-black community on July 29–30, 1910. Some twenty-two ...
The Texas oil boom, sometimes called the gusher age, was a period of dramatic change and economic growth in the U.S. state of Texas during the early 20th century that began with the discovery of a large petroleum reserve near Beaumont, Texas.
Brooks' death was pictured in a lynching postcard. Allen Brooks was a black American man who was lynched by a mob on March 3, 1910, in Dallas, Texas.Brooks had been accused of raping a young white girl, and on the day he was set to face trial at the Dallas County Courthouse, a large mob pulled him by rope out of a second-story window at the courthouse, dragged him to Elks Arch, and hanged him ...
August 20–21 – The Great Fire of 1910 wildfire burns about 3 million acres (12,000 km 2) in northeast Washington, northern Idaho, and western Montana over 2 days and kills 86 people (believed to be the largest fire in recorded United States history).