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Corbin, Kentucky race riot of 1919 was a race riot in 1919 in which a white mob forced nearly all of Corbin's 200 black residents onto a freight train out of town.
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.
Dickerson, also known as Richard Dollon, came to Springfield from Cynthiana, Kentucky. [2] Some people who knew him spoke of his "bad reputation." On Sunday, 6 March 1904, he had an altercation with a woman whom he called his wife, and he asked police sergeant Charles B. Collis to help him retrieve something from her.
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.
Interracial violence became more common, sometimes escalating to race riots. After the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and especially since the Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibition of racial discrimination in the sale, rental and financing of housing, sundown towns gradually disappeared, with de facto sundown towns existing into ...
Chief Calvin Dampier took officers armed with high-powered rifles to the house (among them were his brother), where they engaged in a shootout with Johnson, known to be armed with a shotgun and pistol. After the shooting stopped, the police finally entered the house, finding Johnson dead. He had wounded the two Dampier brothers and Dixon Smith.
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.
John Carter was an African-American man who was murdered in Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 4, 1927. [1] Grabbed by a mob after another Black man had been apprehended for the alleged murder of a white girl, Carter was hanged from a telephone pole, shot, dragged through the streets, and then burned in the center of the city's Black part of town with materials that a white crowd of perhaps 5,000 ...