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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 ...
Corbin, Kentucky race riot of 1919 was a race riot in 1919 in which a white mob forced nearly all the town's 200 black residents onto a freight train out of town, and a sundown town policy until the late 20th century.
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.
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.
Bertha Lee Strickland Cultural Museum Seneca: South Carolina: 2015 [38] Birmingham Civil Rights Institute: Birmingham: Alabama: 1992 [39] Black American West Museum and Heritage Center: Denver: Colorado: 1971 [40] Black Cowboy Museum Rosenberg: Texas: 2017 [41] Black History 101 Mobile Museum Detroit: Michigan: 1995 [42] Black History Museum ...
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened in Montgomery, Alabama, on April 26, 2018.Featured among other things is the Memorial Corridor which displays 805 hanging steel rectangles, each representing the counties in the United States where a documented lynching took place and, for each county, the names of those lynched. [10]
Most deaths occurred in rural areas during events like the Elaine Race Riot in Arkansas, where an estimated 100 to 240 black people and 5 white people were killed. Also in 1919 were the Chicago Race Riot and Washington D.C. race riot which killed 38 and 39 people respectively. Both had many more non-fatal injuries and extensive property damage ...
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 ...