Education, including not only Baylor University but two black colleges. It had the nickname of the athens of texas because there were so many institutions of higher education. They also had a lot of libraries. Wacos society had always considered itself a little more civilized, loftier than other towns. So it was particularly ironic that in this prosperous, welleducated town with so many of lifes amenities that this incident could happen. The story of the waco lynching of Jesse Washington in 1916 really begins with the discovery of the body of lucy fryer who was a farm woman who was his employer. He and his family had not been in the waco area for very long. They were itinerant farm laborers, but it was not only Jesse Washington himself, 17 and mentally challenged, who was plowing the fields and working for them, but it was also his parents who lived in a little shack on their property with some other children. I think there was a younger brother, a teenager, and they were all doing som
It was in what the eastern chronicle called the cultured, reputable town of waco that was known for its many institutions of higher education, including Baylor University and two black colleges. It had the neck name of the athens of texas because there were so many institutions of higher education. They had a lot of libraries. O always considered itself a little loftier, more civilized than other towns. Thats particularly ironic in this prosperous, welleducated town, where so many of lifes amenities, that this incident could happen. The story of the lynching of Jesse Washington in 1916 begins with the discovery of the body of lucy fryer, who was a farm woman. Family had not been in the waco area for very long. They were itinerant farm laborers. It was not only Jesse Washington himself who was plowing the fields and working for them, but it was also his parents in a little shack on the friars property with some other children. Was a younger brother, a teenager, and some small children.
The 2014 Freedom Award in the capitol statuary hall. During the 1960s civil rights movement, lewis served as chairman of the student nonviolent cord knitting committee, and helped organize the march on washington and the Voting Rights march from selma to montgomery, alabama. That is tonight at 9 25 eastern time, here on American History tv. This year, cspan is touring cities across the country, exploring American History. You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. It is hard to imagine an essentially a modern day town where our grandparents or greatgrandparents couldve lived, it wasnt that long ago , 1916, where Something Like this could take place. That scholars called these events spectacle lynchings. And they took place mostly in the late 19th century and early 20th century. One of the interesting aspects of this horrendous lynching is that it didnt occur in some little backwoods village where everybody was poor and ignorant, but it was in what the
Public Program Specialist here where we have been teaching the Lasting Impact and legacy of the great war since 1926. If you would like more information about the museum or memorial visit our website. Now, i would like to introduce you to sites to tonights speaker, the trees donald 10, a professor of history at texas a m Corpus Christi specializing in 19thcentury africanAmerican Military history, the gilded age, world war i, and military history. She works at the intersection of race, gender, military service, and in the Long Civil Rights Movement and is the author of duty beyond the battlefield, africanamerican soldiers, the fight for racial citizenship and manhood 1870 to 1920. And, a voyage through the africanamerican experience. She is the editor of a new book series. The black soldier in war and society new narratives and critical perspectives. With the university of virginia press. Herb current book is that her current book is the history of the armies black chaplains. She is the
Public Program Specialist here where we have been teaching the Lasting Impact and legacy of the great war since 1926. If you would like more information about the museum or memorial visit our website. Now, i would like to introduce you to sites to tonights speaker, the trees donald 10, a professor of history at texas a m Corpus Christi specializing in 19thcentury africanAmerican Military history, the gilded age, world war i, and military history. She works at the intersection of race, gender, military service, and in the Long Civil Rights Movement and is the author of duty beyond the battlefield, africanamerican soldiers, the fight for racial citizenship and manhood 1870 to 1920. And, a voyage through the africanamerican experience. She is the editor of a new book series. The black soldier in war and society new narratives and critical perspectives. With the university of virginia press. Herb current book is that her current book is the history of the armies black chaplains. She is the