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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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- 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, Texas, holds a unique position in the history of the American West, blending the frontier spirit characteristic of the region with a rich tapestry of historical events. The city, with origins tracing back to the early 19th century, emerged as a crucial settlement near the Texas-Oklahoma border. Initially known as “Wolfpath,” the ...
The people charted the town of Whitesboro on June 2, 1873. Ambrose served as its first mayor until his death in 1885. G. O. and Luke Hunter along with their mother, Mrs. L. F. McPhearson, arrived in a covered wagon from Caddo, Indian Territory, and founded the Whitesboro Democrat newspaper in 1877.
The Texas and Pacific Railroad Company was given, in deed, one hundred acres of land by the citizens of Whitesboro in 1877. The Company received the right-of-way from Mustang Creek, six miles east, and to and through the town.
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.
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Although it had previously been incorporated, in1887 the town was reincorporated under the simplified name of Whitesboro. The population in 1900 was around 1,200 which increased to 1,810 by 1920 when the town had a second railroad connection.
