Now to be on the wall was the cane she used to get around that was very important for her. Toward the end of her life, she was bedridden for much of her time. There is a wonderful photo of her drinking out of this drinking cup here. It was given to her by her very dear friend mary mercer. ,it has her name engraved on it. That was something she kept at her bedside throughout her life. Carson was married to reeves mccullers. Soldier stationed at fort benning that she met when she went here. They had a very tumultuous relationship. Tragedyately ended in when reeves committed suicide. There is a lot of emotional misunderstanding and infidelity on both sides throughout their relationship. There was also a real love their and something that connected them with their love of literature and writing. So, these are two books that reeves gave her. In particular, this one you see here says christmas 1936 two o carson, these books and my deepest affection, reeves. Even though the relationship was n
Not just a southern thing. Omaha, nebraska. St. Louis, chicago, illinois. All erupted in race riots. Millions of workers, about 4 million workers are going to go on strike in 1919. And this wave of labor unrest then fed into this conservative mood. It seemed to spark hysteria. This is a time when we are dealing with the red scare. The red scare with the bolshevik revolution being so fresh, that americans now determined that perhaps bolshevism had come to the american shores and were undermining the capitalist system as we speak, right . So in this climate there is a very harsh reaction to labor unrest in 1919. There were accounts of violence that seemed to be tied to the labor unrest. The u. S. Post office during 1919 intercepted dozens of bombs that were being mailed to prominent americans. They did not intercept all of them. One of them blew up on the front door of mitchell palmers house. Mitchell palmer was the attorney general of the United States. Heres the thing about the red sca