– believed to be America’s second black millionaire after Madam C.J. Walker as a teenager – At 18 Rector owned stocks and bonds, a boarding house, a bakery and the Busy Bee Café in Muskogee – The family lived in what was called the Rector Mansion in Kansas City Teacsher | Father | Activist ______________________________ […]
A white mob in Clark County, Arkansas lynched a Ben Daniels and his two sons on January 24, 1879. Daniels tried to pay for an item at store with a $50 bill when the merchant assumed a Black man could only have that much money if he had stolen it. The merchant told police that […]
In 1916, a white mob lynched Anthony P. Crawford, a 56-year-old Black farmer in South Carolina after he argued with a white merchant over the price of cottonseed. Crawford was assaulted, arrested, and placed in jail after a disagreement with a white store owner over the cost of cottonseed that brought him to the market […]
“In the middle of the night, a white mob allegedly held Sheriff Gardner and his men at gunpoint and took Mr. Hale from jail. We know they brought him to this spot in downtown Lawrenceville, Georgia and hanged him from a telegram pole,” Lawrenceville pastor Elijah Collins said talking of Hale. Hale’s body was hanged […]