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A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Lawrence newspaper

Lawrence Daily Journal, reprinted in Leavenworth Times. Untitled. January 24, 1901. "Kansas is again the recipient of columns of advice from other states. Other states should understand that this is...

Horton newspaper

Horton Commercial, reprinted in Topeka Plaindealer. "Lynching Dead Negroes." January 31, 1902. "Had this lynching of a dead Negro occurred in Louisiana or Texas, it would be termed 'another Democratic...

Topeka newspapers

Topeka State Journal, December 5, 1906, "Texans had 'Fun.'"   TEXANS HAD 'FUN' Tried to Lynch Negro on Santa Fe Train No. 17 Cowboys Put Rope Around His Neck Three...

Junction City newspaper

Junction City Tribune. "The Exodus." May 1, 1879. "Beneath the surface of this whole affair, however, there is a quiet practical joke. For years the north has complained that the...

Eskridge newspaper

Eskridge Star. Untitled. July 13, 1899. "We are opposed to mob law: Our civilization is too far advanced for such business: We live too far north for that kind of...

Emporia newspapers

The Emporia Times and Emporia Republican. "Nigger Assaults White Woman." July 14, 1905.   NIGGER ASSAULTS WHITE WOMAN HOUSE OF MRS. LUSK ENTERED — NIGGER WAS CAPTURED AND IDENTIFIED BY...

Wichita newspaper

Wichita Daily Eagle. "Burned at the Stake by a Mob." January 17, 1901. "It has got around to Kansas, around to the state the dream of whose people has always...

Pratt newspaper

Pratt Republican. "A Bad State of Affairs." September 8, 1910. "Now the Republican always stands for law and against any form of mob law. It concedes the right of a...

El Dorado newspaper

El Dorado Daily Walnut Valley Times. Untitled. April 22, 1893. "Let us not howl at the south for murdering 'niggers.' Up at Salina a mob hung a darkey for slashing...

You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History

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