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He was in a highly competitive race for the 1946 Democratic primary for the governor's office; it was held five days later and the county voted in his favor. He won the office in the general election as well, but died before inauguration. [3] When the allegations about Talmadege were reported, Rich Rusk told a journalist:
A colorized postcard of the lynching of Virgil Jones, Robert Jones, Thomas Jones, and Joseph Riley on July 31, 1908, in Russellville, Kentucky. A lynching postcard is a postcard bearing the photograph of a lynching—a vigilante murder usually motivated by racial hatred—intended to be distributed, collected, or kept as a souvenir.
James Allen (born June 16, 1954) [1] is an American antique collector, known in particular for his collection of 145 photographs of lynchings in America, published in 2000 with Congressman John Lewis as Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America.
The lynching of the Walker family took place near Hickman, Fulton County, Kentucky, on October 3, 1908, at the hands of about fifty masked Night Riders. [1] David Walker was a landowner, with a 21.5-acre (8.7 ha) farm.
I was even more surprised to discover that the incident in Corbin was one of approximately 35 “race riots” that had occurred that year in the United States. The period is referred to as “The ...
The episode, titled “The Civil War’s Lost Massacre,” will help trace the stories of multiple Kentucky soldiers from the 5th U.S. Colored Calvary that was overseeing the cattle drive, per KET.
Several documentary filmmakers — some backed by NBA superstars — are shedding light on the historically ignored Tulsa Race Massacre of... View Article The post Tulsa massacre documentaries ...
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.