"At the scene of the lynching"
Digital : News-clipping Excerpt
A drawing by Ralph Downing, published on April 16th 1903th in the Joplin Globe. The drawing shows the lynching of Thomas Gilyard.
Ralph Downing
The Joplin Globe
OAAHM-Online
April 16, 1903
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"The United States of Lyncherdom"
Digital : Essay Document
<p>In 1901, Missouri born author Mark Twain wrote an essay titled "The United States of Lyncherdom" in response to the Pierce City lynchings. He had intended the essay for publication, but decided it was too politically sensitive. The essay was finally published 13 years after Twain's death in a posthumous collection titled <em>Europe and Elsewhere.<br /></em></p>
<p><em></em>"The United States of Lyncherdom" is currently in the public domain in the United States.</p>
Mark Twain
Text accessed online, June 23rd 2013, at http://people.virginia.edu/~sfr/enam482e/lyncherdom.html
OAAHM-Onlinev
Summer 1901
Dorothy Berry
Text is in the public domain
"Third Negro Lynched; Troops in Springfield"
Digital : News-clipping Excerpt
An excerpt from an article published in the New York Times on April 16th, 1906. For educational use only, all copy rights held by the New York Times. Accessed online on June 23rd 2013.
The New York Times
April 16, 1906
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"What is Left in Life for a Negro in Joplin"
Digital : News-clipping Excerpt
An article from the Chicago Daily Tribune, featuring a letter written to the paper by a Black Joplin Native.
The Chicago Daily Tribune
OAAHM-Online
April 20th, 1903
Dorothy Berry
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"Where you see the cross..."; postcard
Digital : Postcard Scan
Lynching postcards were popular in the Jim Crow South, and while this is not a photo of a lynching, it still demonstrates the perverse fascination with public murder held by a large number of White Ozarkians.
The handwritten text beneath the card says "Where you see the cross, 3 negroes where lynched by a mob the night before Easter. Your cards [?]. Many thanks for [?]. Best Regards to all Marie." It is dated 7/21/'06.
From the collection of Anna M. Hulseberg (Mrs. Voluntine C. Turner), with thanks to Jim Turner
OAAHM-Online
August 1906
Dorothy Berry
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<em>The White Side of a Black Subject: <span class="subtitle"><span>Enlarged and Brought Down to Date : a Vindication of the Afro-American Race : from the Landing of Slaves at St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565, to the Present Time</span></span></em>
Object : Book
Cloth bound book. Binding completely destroyed. All pages intact.
Norman Barton Wood
Ozarks Afro-American Heritage Museum
OAAHM-Online
1897
Dorothy Berry
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Ankle chains
Object : Chains
Iron ankle chain. Chain is contemporary, added to show function.
"Ankle irons from the slave irons...those were a gift to me."
Ozarks Afro-American Heritage Museum
OAAHM-Online
[1830s-1860s?]
Dorothy Berry
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Annotated Map of Lynchings
Digital : Map
Annotated 1904 Missouri county map showing the dates of lynchings in Pierce City, Joplin and Springfield, MO.
Dorothy Berry
Original source content from Library of Congress
OAAHM-Online
Original map; 1902
Dorothy Berry
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Ball and chain leg irons
Object : Chains
Two heavy iron ball weights connected with chain links.
"Those are called walking ball-and-chain. They were a gift to the museum from the Friends of the Ash Grove Museum on our opening day and Jenny Smith and another fellow named Tom Miller were responsible for giving those to the museum, they came from Jasper County, which is another county near Joplin, Missouri."
Ozarks Afro-American Heritage Museum
OAAHM-Online
[1840s-1860s]
Dorothy Berry
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Boring Tool
Object : Miscellaneous
Farming tool used to bore holes. Constructed of wood and iron.
Ozarks Afro-American Heritage Museum
OAAHM-Online
Dorothy Berry
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