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The cotton pickers' strike of 1891 was a labor action of African-American sharecroppers in Lee County, Arkansas in September, 1891. The strike led to open conflict between strikers and plantation owners, racially-motivated violence, and both a sheriff's posse and a lynching party.
Boudica or Boudicca (/ ˈ b uː d ɪ k ə, b oʊ ˈ d ɪ k ə /, from Brythonic *boudi 'victory, win' + *-kā 'having' suffix, i.e. 'Victorious Woman', known in Latin chronicles as Boadicea or Boudicea, and in Welsh as Buddug, pronounced [ˈbɨðɨɡ]) was a queen of the ancient British Iceni tribe, who led a failed uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61.
The Boudican revolt was an armed uprising by native Celtic Britons against the Roman Empire during the Roman conquest of Britain.It took place circa AD 60–61 in the Roman province of Britain, and it was led by Boudica, the Queen of the Iceni tribe.
An estimated 6,000 black people were left homeless. May 1918 Erwin, Tennessee: A Black man was murdered and the entire remaining Black population of 131 residents was forced to witness his body being burned, after which they were ordered to leave their homes and were banished from the town; this incident is known as the Erwin Expulsion. Fall 1919
In Welsh myth, the Gwragedd Annwn were said to herd cattle. These cattle were special, and had a coat of pure white. They were known as Gwartheg y Llyn, or the kine of the lake. At some point, myth holds that a farmer caught one of these pure white cows, and it provided him with butter, milk, and cheese of the highest quality.
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Marian Clode, 61, was tossed over a gate by a cow which charged her while on a walk in Northumberland in 2016. Teacher’s death by escaped cow a ‘salutary lesson’ for farmers, judge says Skip ...
Elaine is a small town in Phillips County, Arkansas, United States, in the Arkansas Delta region of the Mississippi River.The population was 636 at the 2010 census.. The city is best known as the location of the Elaine massacre of September 30 – October 1, 1919, in which an estimated 237 black people were killed in the rural county by rampaging white mobs.