"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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"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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"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
"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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"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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Daisy White; Color Portrait
Portrait : Color
Color portrait in chalk or pastel of African American woman, from chest up. The woman is wearing a high necked dress that dates this portrait to the 1900s.
"...Daisy White the wife of Wallace White. Wallace white is my great grandfather, he fought at Vicksburg, he was in the Missouri 5th cavalry and Daisy White and Wallace White lived in Caves Spring, Missouri, which is about eight miles west...southwest of Ash Grove, Missouri and uh that’s all the information I really have about her. She was formerly part of the Luney family. She was part of the Luney family from Cave Springs."
Ozarks Afro-American Heritage Museum
OAAHM-Online
[early 1900s?]
Dorothy Berry
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OAAHM0001
Male and Female Couple; Portrait
Portrait
OAAHM0009
Fanny Murray; Portrait
Portrait : Color
Ozarks Afro-American Heritage Museum
OAAHM-Online
[1900s?]
Dorothy Berry
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OAAHM0008
Harrison White [?]; Portrait
Portrait : Black and White
Charcoal portrait of male child. He is wearing a suit with a black bow tie.
"I think that one is actually one of the White children, and I don’t know which one it could be. I don’t know who he could be, but he might be Harrison White, who was my Grandma [Mamie] Berry’s brother who was a buffalo solider and fought with Teddy Roosevelt at San Juan, but im not really sure. I don’t think he’s part of the Triplett family because that one is painted in the same style [as OAAHM0001]"
Ozarks Afro-American Heritage Museum
OAAHM-Online
[1900s?]
Dorothy Berry
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OAAHM0007
Triplett Family, Woman; Portrait
Portrait : Black and White
Charcoal portrait of African American woman. She is wearing a dark colored dress with a high ruffled neck. This portrait from around the 1900s.
Ozarks Afro-American Heritage Museum
OAAHM-Online
[1900s?]
Dorothy Berry
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OAAHM0006