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Tom Patricola and Ann Pennington dance "The Black Bottom" for George White. George White's Scandals were a long-running string of Broadway revues produced by George White that ran from 1919–1939, modeled after the Ziegfeld Follies. [1]
The Perry massacre was a racially motivated conflict in Perry, Florida, in December 1922.Whites killed four black men, including Charles Wright, who was lynched by being burned at the stake, and they also destroyed several buildings in the black community of Perry after the murder of Ruby Hendry, a white female schoolteacher.
Betty Marion Ludden (née White; January 17, 1922 – December 31, 2021) was an American actress and comedian. [1] [2] A pioneer of early television with a career spanning almost seven decades, she was noted for her vast number of television appearances, acting in sitcoms, sketch comedy, and game shows.
During the violence, 1,250 homes were destroyed and roughly 6,000 African-Americans were imprisoned after the Oklahoma National Guard was called in. The state of Oklahoma reports that twenty-six African-Americans died along with 10 whites. 1922 Perry massacre (Perry, Florida) 1923: Rosewood Massacre (Rosewood, Florida)
George Robert White was born in Lynnfield, Massachusetts, on July 19, 1847. [1] He was a citizen of Boston, Massachusetts, for most of his life.As a boy he began working for the Weeks and Potter Drug Company.
The Lily-White Movement was an anti-black political movement within the Republican Party in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a response to the political and socioeconomic gains made by African-Americans following the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which eliminated slavery and involuntary servitude ("except as punishment for a crime").
This pencil mill in Cedar Key was an integral part of local industry.. Rosewood was settled in 1847, nine miles (14 km) east of Cedar Key, near the Gulf of Mexico.Most of the local economy drew on the timber industry; the name Rosewood refers to the reddish color of cut cedar wood.
The White movement, [c] also known as the Whites, [d] was one of the main factions of the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922. It was led mainly by the right-leaning and conservative officers of the Russian Empire, while the Bolsheviks who led the October Revolution in Russia, also known as the Reds, and their supporters, were regarded as the main enemies of the Whites.