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Author: Danville (Va.). Committee of Forty to Investigate Danville Riot
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Published: 1883
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKReport of a committee appointed by white citizens of Danville to investigate the riot of November 3, 1883.
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-01-25
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 3385324580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author: Drew A. Swanson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-08-12
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 030020681X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrew A. Swanson has written an “environmental” history about a crop of great historical and economic significance: American tobacco. A preferred agricultural product for much of the South, the tobacco plant would ultimately degrade the land that nurtured it, but as the author provocatively argues, the choice of crop initially made perfect agrarian as well as financial sense for southern planters. Swanson, who brings to his narrative the experience of having grown up on a working Virginia tobacco farm, explores how one attempt at agricultural permanence went seriously awry. He weaves together social, agricultural, and cultural history of the Piedmont region and illustrates how ideas about race and landscape management became entangled under slavery and afterward. Challenging long-held perceptions, this innovative study examines not only the material relationships that connected crop, land, and people but also the justifications that encouraged tobacco farming in the region.
Author: Facing History and Ourselves
Publisher: Facing History & Ourselves National Foundation, Incorporated
Published: 2017-11-22
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781940457468
DOWNLOAD EBOOKprovides history teachers with dozens of primary and secondary source documents, close reading exercises, lesson plans, and activity suggestions that will push students both to build a complex understanding of the dilemmas and conflicts Americans faced during Reconstruction.
Author: Frankie Y. Bailey
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2011-04-22
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 1625841221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProstitution, gambling, moonshine and drugs could all be found behind closed the closed doors of Danville, VA from 1919 to 1933. During Prohibition, the "Law and Order League," of Danville was, of course, "dry," but the city's mayor was personally was known to be "personally wet," and in 1911 citizens were shocked to discover that the police chief was a fugitive from a murder conviction in Georgia. That same period saw lynching, murders and the wreck of the Old '97. HP authors Frankie Bailey and Alice Green will examine the law and disorder of Prohibition era Danville with Wicked Danville: Crime, Justice, and Prohibition in a Southside Virginia City.
Author: W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2022-08-15
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 0252053737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLynching was a national crime. But it obsessed the South. W. Fitzhugh Brundage's multidisciplinary approach to the complex nature of lynching delves into the such extrajudicial murders in two states: Virginia, the southern state with the fewest lynchings; and Georgia, where 460 lynchings made the state a measure of race relations in the Deep South. Brundage's analysis addresses three central questions: How can we explain variations in lynching over regions and time periods? To what extent was lynching a social ritual that affirmed traditional white values and white supremacy? And, what were the causes of the decline of lynching at the end of the 1920s? A groundbreaking study, Lynching in the New South is a classic portrait of the tradition of violence that poisoned American life.
Author: Karen Juanita Carrillo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2012-08-22
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1598843613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe proof of any group's importance to history is in the detail, a fact made plain by this informative book's day-by-day documentation of the impact of African Americans on life in the United States. One of the easiest ways to grasp any aspect of history is to look at it as a continuum. African American History Day by Day: A Reference Guide to Events provides just such an opportunity. Organized in the form of a calendar, this book allows readers to see the dates of famous births, deaths, and events that have affected the lives of African Americans and, by extension, of America as a whole. Each day features an entry with information about an important event that occurred on that date. Background on the highlighted event is provided, along with a link to at least one primary source document and references to books and websites that can provide more information. While there are other calendars of African American history, this one is set apart by its level of academic detail. It is not only a calendar, but also an easy-to-use reference and learning tool.
Author: Michael Lee Pope
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2022-10
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1467139203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Byrd Machine ran Virginia politics for more than half a century. This political organization rose to power during the era of Jim Crow, wielding power and influence over everything from who got the nod to be governor to how the state maintained racial segregation. Inheriting its tactics from two previous political machines, the Byrd organization operated with a pathological hatred of debt spending, crushing the power of labor unions and forcing its will on Black schoolchildren protesting separate and unequal facilities. The nadir of its era was massive resistance, a move to close public schools rather than integrate them. Journalist and author Michael Lee Pope details the rise and fall of the last great political machine in Virginia.
Author: Earl Gregg Swem
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 750
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gallagher, Vince
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1587689650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAwakening bears witness to the most egregious disparities between African American people and white people caused by the structural injustice inherent in virtually every institution in the United States.
