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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.
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.
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.
A Tulsa Race Massacre victim was recently ID’d as a World War I veteran. The city has now paid tribute to him. Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN. November 17, 2024 at 1:00 PM.
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]
The massacre began when a white mob, including some deputized by authorities, looted and burned Tulsa’s Greenwood District. More than 1,200 homes, businesses, schools and churches were destroyed ...
Evansville race riot; Atlanta Massacre of 1906; Springfield race riot of 1908; Johnson–Jeffries riots; 1912 racial conflict in Forsyth County; 1917 Chester race riot; East St. Louis riots; Elaine massacre; Red Summer; Chicago race riot of 1919; Washington race riot of 1919; Ocoee massacre; Tulsa race massacre; Perry race riot; Rosewood massacre