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The Presbyterian Church was built in 1878. About a year later the Methodist and Baptist Churches were built. The first newspaper was operated by a Mrs. McPhearson and her two brothers, Luke and Chester.
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- CORE Lesson
- Key Persons
- Annotated Bibliography and Suggested Reading
The post-Reconstruction period in the South, which witnessed the rise of the Jim Crowsystem, marked a time when American race relations are thought to have reached their nadir, with whites pursuing efforts to reassert hegemony over blacks on every front, from disfranchisement to school segregation. The term Jim Crow is believed to have originated b...
Theme
Although the emergence of Jim Crowism in the South and numerous acts of violence against blacks explain why the years between 1878 and 1915 are considered the nadir in American race relations, the modern black community also begins to take form during these years. Nationally, free blacks and former slaves come together to expand black institutional life as part of an effort to cope with the rising tide of racism.
Materials and Preparation
Students should read either chapters 19-23 in The African American Experience: A History (“Miners, Farmers, and Cowhands, 1849-1880,” “African Americans in the New South, 1877-1910,” “Living in the Jim Crow World, 1877-1910,” “Advances in Education, the Arts, and Sciences, 1877-1910,” and “The Civil Rights Struggle, 1900-1941”) or chapters 25-29 in African American History(“Segregation Upheld,” “Blacks Pushed Aside,” “Industry and the Black Worker,” “A School is Born,” and “The Liberation Mov...
Time Period
Each of the activities that follow will take one class period.
Noble Drew Ali(nee Timothy Drew). A North Carolinian who migrated to Newark, where in 1913 he established the Moorish Science Temple, black America’s first major Muslim group. W.E.B. Dubois.A founder of the Niagara Movement and the NAACP, this advocate of militant protest against racial injustice was the foremost black American intellectual from th...
FOR TEACHERS
Bogle, Donald, 1973. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks. 1. A study that examines the stereotypical and defiant black entertainers who performed in the movies and on the stage from the 1890s to 1970. Cronon, Edmund David, 1955. Black Moses: The Story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association. 1. The first major biography of the founder and leader of the largest black mass protest movement ever established in the United States. Dickson, Bruce, 1989, Black America...
FOR STUDENTS
Bundles, A’Lelia. 1991. Madame C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur. 1. Part of the Black Americans of Achievement series. Crockett, Norman L. 1979. The Black Towns. 1. This study examines five all-black towns established between 1879 and 1904: Nicodemus, Kansas; Mound Bayou, Mississippi; Langston, Oklahoma; Cleat-view, Oklahoma; and Boley, Oklahoma. The rationale for such communities as articulated by their founders and supporters is also provided. Dunbar, Paul Laurence. 1902. The Sport of the Gods. 1....
Dec 28, 2023 · Whitesboro boasts a history intertwined with the Butterfield Overland Mail route, running from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast from 1858 to 1861, which used White’s Westview Inn as the “Diamond Station.”.
From History of Oneida County 1896, S.W. Durant writes: "Whitesboro contained, in January 1878, two hotels, a wagon shop, four blacksmith shops, a harness shop, seven stores, a frame district school, four churches and more than six manufacturers. Messrs.
May 1, 2000 · He envisioned Whitesboro being a place where African Americans could seek social, economic, and political freedom. And before his death, Whitesboro did become a place where hopes and desires of African-Americans could be fulfilled, and stands today as a fully chartered town in the State New Jersey.
At that time it had a population of 500, saloons, several stores, and other businesses. By the end of the decade the community had a bank, a newspaper, and train service from the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, which had extended its tracks to Whitesborough from Denison in 1879.
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Jul 21, 2016 · When Whitesboro incorporated in 1873, White was elected its first mayor. The Denison & Pacific Railroad, later part of the Missouri, Kansas, & Texas, arrived in 1879; the Texas & Pacific in 1881. Today the area's economy is based on recreational facilities and peanut production.
