Author: Grace Episcopal Church (Port Huron, Mich.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Port Huron (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Celebrating One Hundred Years, Grace Episcopal Church, in the City of Port Huron, Michigan, 1839-1939
Author: Grace Episcopal Church (Port Huron, Mich.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Port Huron (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Celebrating 100 Years of the Texas Folklore Society, 1909-2009
Author: Kenneth L. UntiedtPublisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574412779
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
The Texas Folklore Society is one of the oldest and most prestigious organizations in the state. Its secret for longevity lies in those things that make it unique, such as its annual meeting that seems more like a social event or family reunion than a formal academic gathering. This book examines the Society's members and their substantial contributions to the field of folklore over the last century. Some articles focus on the research that was done in the past, while others offer studies that continue today. This book does more than present a history of the Texas Folklore Society: it explains why the TFS has lasted so long, and why it will continue.
The Silent Shore
Author: Charles L. Chavis Jr.Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421442930
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The definitive account of the lynching of twenty-three-year-old Matthew Williams in Maryland, the subsequent investigation, and the legacy of "modern-day" lynchings. On December 4, 1931, a mob of white men in Salisbury, Maryland, lynched and set ablaze a twenty-three-year-old Black man named Matthew Williams. His gruesome murder was part of a wave of silent white terrorism in the wake of the stock market crash of 1929, which exposed Black laborers to white rage in response to economic anxieties. For nearly a century, the lynching of Matthew Williams has lived in the shadows of the more well-known incidents of racial terror in the deep South, haunting both the Eastern Shore and the state of Maryland as a whole. In The Silent Shore, author Charles L. Chavis Jr. draws on his discovery of previously unreleased investigative documents to meticulously reconstruct the full story of one of the last lynchings in Maryland. Bringing the painful truth of anti-Black violence to light, Chavis breaks the silence that surrounded Williams's death. Though Maryland lacked the notoriety for racial violence of Alabama or Mississippi, he writes, it nonetheless was the site of at least 40 spectacle lynchings after the abolition of slavery in 1864. Families of lynching victims rarely obtained any form of actual justice, but Williams's death would have a curious afterlife: Maryland's politically ambitious governor Albert C. Ritchie would, in an attempt to position himself as a viable challenger to FDR, become one of the first governors in the United States to investigate the lynching death of a Black person. Ritchie tasked Patsy Johnson, a member of the Pinkerton detective agency and a former prizefighter, with going undercover in Salisbury and infiltrating the mob that murdered Williams. Johnson would eventually befriend a young local who admitted to participating in the lynching and who also named several local law enforcement officers as ringleaders. Despite this, a grand jury, after hearing 124 witness statements, declined to indict the perpetrators. But this denial of justice galvanized Governor Ritchie's Interracial Commission, which would become one of the pioneering forces in the early civil rights movement in Maryland. Complicating historical narratives associated with the history of lynching in the city of Salisbury, The Silent Shore explores the immediate and lingering effect of Williams's death on the politics of racism in the United States, the Black community in Salisbury, the broader Eastern Shore, the state of Maryland, and the legacy of "modern-day lynchings."
Story of One Hundred Years
Author: Daniel B. SheppPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earth (Planet)
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Tasting New Mexico
Author: Cheryl Alters JamisonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780890135426
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Offers penetrating views of the richness of the basketmaking tradition of Southwestern tribes and the current revival of the art and the beauty of the baskets themselves.
The Celebration of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Wilton, Wilton, N. H., Sept. 12th, 1889
Author: Charles W. MarshallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wilton (N.H.)
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town of Princeton, Mass., October 20th, 1859
Author: Princeton (Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Princeton (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of Westminster, Mass
Author: Charles HudsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Westminster (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
One Hundred Years of English Studies in Dutch Universities
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004484000
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Author: Barnas SEARS