Tag: racism
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Matthew Henson – The First Man to the North Pole, 1909.
Image: Matthew Henson, American explorer. 1910. Matthew Henson – The First Man to the North Pole, 1909. On April 6, 1909, a team of six men on dog sleds, including the first person to stand on top of the world, an African American man named Matthew Henson, travelled 413 nautical miles off the coast of…
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Nine young black men were taken off the Southern Railway line in Paint Rock, Alabama, and arrested for throwing a group of white teens off the train further up the line. March 25, 1931
Image: Scottsboro Boys and Juanita Jackson Mitchell, 1936. (Public Domain) On this day in history, March 25, 1931, nine young black men were taken off the Southern Railway line in Paint Rock, Alabama, and arrested for throwing a group of white teens off the train further up the line. Two white women aboard the train,…
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On this day in history, U.S. Postmaster Frazier B. Baker and his two-year-old daughter Julia Baker were lynched and died at their home in Lake City, South Carolina, after a white mob attack on their home. February 22, 1898.
Image: Lavinia Baker and her five surviving children. A mob of whites had set fire to their house at night and fatally shot and killed her husband, Frazier Baker, and baby girl Julia on February 22, 1898. Left to right: Sarah; Lincoln, Lavinia; Wille; Cora, Rosa. (Public Domain) On this day in history, February 22,…
History Daily With Francis Chappell Black 