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Monument to Emma Sansom. Emma Sansom (June 2, 1847 – August 9, 1900) was an Alabama teenager and farm worker noted for her actions during the American Civil War (1861-1865), during which she assisted the defensive campaign of the mounted cavalry in the Confederate Army's then Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877), during the Streight's Raid by Union Army cavalry under command ...
Fort Payne: Confederate Monument (1913) by UDC and SCV of DeKalb County, Alabama [39] Gadsden: Emma Sansom and Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument (1907) by UDC, Gadsden Chapter. [40] Turkey Town Monument (1992) by SCV, Turkey Town Valley Camp #1512 [41]
Around 1899, the Ladies’ Confederate Monument Association began raising funds to erect a monument in St. Louis to soldiers who had fought against the United States. After some $23,000 ($411,305 today [1]) was raised, mostly from the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the monument was installed in Forest Park, the city's largest park. It was ...
Confederate monument-building has often been part of widespread campaigns to promote and justify Jim Crow laws in the South. [12] [13] According to the American Historical Association (AHA), the erection of Confederate monuments during the early 20th century was "part and parcel of the initiation of legally mandated segregation and widespread disenfranchisement across the South."
St. Louis County: Minnesota: September 18, 1918: Refusal to join the military during World War I: Tarred and feathered before being hanged. Taylor, George: African American: Rolesville: Wake: North Carolina: November 5, 1918: Rape of a white woman: No charges were filed. [374] There is a Web site on this lynching. [375] Woodson, Joel: African ...
View of the Eads Bridge under construction in 1870, listed as a St. Louis Landmark and National Historic Landmark St. Louis Landmark is a designation of the Board of Aldermen of the City of St. Louis for historic buildings and other sites in St. Louis, Missouri. Listed sites are selected after meeting a combination of criteria, such as whether the site is a cultural resource, near a cultural ...
Deputy Sheriff Sara Straten worked at the Sansom Park Police Department from June 2021 to May 2023, according to her LinkedIn profile. She was promoted to commander, the department’s second in ...
Kinloch is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri.The population was 263 as of the 2020 census. [6]The oldest African-American community to be incorporated in Missouri, Kinloch was home to a vibrant and flourishing black community for much of the 19th and 20th century.