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Jasper, Texas is a 2003 American made-for-television drama film directed by Jeffrey W. Byrd. The teleplay by Jonathan Estrin is based on a true story and focuses on the aftermath of a crime in which three white men from the small town of Jasper, Texas , killed African American James Byrd Jr. by dragging him behind their pickup truck.
The same year, the city of Jasper named a local park the "James Byrd Jr. Memorial Park" in his honor. [58] In 2003, a movie about the crime, titled Jasper, Texas, was produced and aired on Showtime. The same year, a documentary titled Two Towns of Jasper, made by filmmakers Marco Williams and Whitney Dow, premiered on PBS's P.O.V. series. [62]
Talladega: Confederate Memorial. Oak Hill Cemetery [citation needed] Tuscaloosa: Confederate Monument, Greenwood Cemetery (1880) by the Ladies Memorial Association [83] Tuskegee: Tuskegee Confederate Monument, erected October 6, 1906 by UDC of Macon County, Alabama. [84] The UDC owns both the monument and the town park it is located in.
THUNDER IN THE HARBOR: Fort Sumter and the Civil War. Myrtle Beach, SC: Savas Beatie. ISBN 978-1-61121-593-9. Hendrix, M. Patrick. A History of Fort Sumter: Building a Civil War Landmark (The History Press, 2014) Ripley, Warren (1984), Artillery and Ammunition of the Civil War, Charleston, S.C.: The Battery Press, ISBN 0-88394-003-5; Silkenat ...
Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard (May 28, 1818 – February 20, 1893) was an American military officer known as being the Confederate General who started the American Civil War at the battle of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861.
A veteran of the French and Indian War, the hero of the fictional Fort Wilderness, and the widowed father of seven children, he is based on a composite of historical characters including Thomas Sumter, Daniel Morgan, Nathanael Greene, Andrew Pickens, and Francis Marion. [2] Heath Ledger as Corporal Gabriel Edward Martin
Glory is a 1989 American epic historical war drama film directed by Edward Zwick about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the Union Army's earliest African American regiments in the American Civil War.
The Fort Sumter Visitor Education Center is located at 340 Concord Street, Liberty Square, Charleston, South Carolina, on the banks of the Cooper River. [3] The center features museum exhibits about the disagreements between the North and South that led to the incidents at Fort Sumter, particularly in South Carolina and Charleston.