Lynching of Lacy Mitchell and Willie Kirkland in Thomas County Part One
Part One of this Documentary series is on the lynching's in Thomas County, GA between 1877 - 1950. In this short we give a brief overview of what to expect in the upcoming documentaries and showing the monuments of the counties represented in Ga.
On August 29, 1930, in the small community of Five Forks, near Thomasville, Georgia, Henry Price and C. V. Moore arrived at the house of Alec and Minnie Lee Thomas. Alec Thomas was away driving his cotton to market in nearby Pavo, but his wife was home. The two men kicked in the doors and chased Minnie Lee Thomas into a field. They knocked her to the ground and, while her children stood on the porch calling for their mother, put a gun to her head and raped her, choking her each time she called for help. Price and Moore were both white. The Thomas's were black. Less than a month later, on September 24, a man attacked a nine-year-old white girl on her way home from school. Unhurt, but badly bruised and terrified, the girl identified her assailant as black and the white community of Thomas County moved into action. By nightfall a twenty-year-old convicted horse thief named Willie Kirkland had been arrested, and approximately one thou sand people soon converged on the stockade where he was in custody. Assurances from the local sheriff to the mob that no action would be taken until morning secured Kirkland's safety that night, but the next day nearly one hundred people again gathered out side of the county courthouse and overpowered the sheriff when he attempted to move Kirkland. A crowd of angry men hurried Kirkland away to nearby Magnolia Park where he was shot. His corpse was dragged through town behind a car and put on display in front of the courthouse. Three days later Minnie Lee Thomas's cousin Lacy Mitchell, who had been scheduled to testify at the trial of her rapists, was at home with his family when a small group of men arrived at his door and shot him in the stomach. Mitchell lingered for two agonizing days and in that time described his attackers to authorities. Suspicion immediately fell on Jack Bradley and Ed Allen. Thomas County began its second manhunt in a week, but this time the fugitives were white. These events, which were possibly the worst episodes of racial violence in the history of Thomas County, came at a time when such turbulence in the South was on the decline. There was nothing particularly unusual about any of the three episodes. The rape of black women by white men occurred with uncomfortable frequency in the Deep South. Allegations of rape or sexual assault by black men on white women frequently led to lynching: an execution without trial similar to the shooting of Willie Kirkland. As for Lacy Mitchell's murder, the death of a black man scheduled to testify against white defendants would not have surprised many people living in early twentieth-century Georgia.
The Georgia Historical. Quarterly Vol. LXXXVII, No. 1, Spring 2003
1 State o/Georgia'. Henry Price and C. V. Moore, Thomas County Superior Court (1930) , 156-65.
According to EJI - The National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror documents EJI’s multi-year investigation into lynching in twelve Southern states during the period between Reconstruction and World War II. EJI researchers documented 4075 racial terror lynching's of African Americans in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia between 1877 and 1950 – at least 800 more lynching's of black people in these states than previously reported in the most comprehensive work done on lynching to date.
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A glimpse at the North Carolina Transportation Museum
I found some old footage on my computer of a trip I made to the museum near the beginning of the year. I re edited it and here it is. there was a video clip of the 611 running but it became corrupted due to a bad memory card but here is the rest.
Music is Fade featuring Zak Waters by Adventure Club
Rockwood Mansion
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Maybe the most haunted historic home in all of Delaware, the Rockwood Mansion in Wilmington has a long history of paranormal activity.
Whitney Plantation museum confronts painful history of slavery
The first museum in America dedicated entirely to slavery opened a few months ago in Wallace, Louisiana. Michelle Miller visits the museum and found a surprising history, not only about the plantation, but her own family.
Greensboro Slavery to Civil Rights Tour/Queen City Tours and Travel/Sat.05.01.2010.PICT0247.AVI
Guest enjoying their plantation tour on Saturday May 1, 2010. More info @
Jarrell Plantation - Georgia State Historic Site
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Greenwood Plantation, Thomasville GA
Quality Inn & Suites Conference Center Thomasville - Thomasville Hotels, Georgia
Quality Inn & Suites Conference Center Thomasville 2 Stars Hotel in Thomasville, Georgia Within US Travel Directory The Quality Inn & Suites Conference Center is located just three miles from the Melhana Plantation.
This Thomasville hotel is minutes from area attractions like Pebble Hill Plantation, Genealogical Library, Lapham-Patterson House, Thomasville Rose Gardens and the Thomas County History Museum.
Florida A&M University and Florida State University are 64.
4 km from the hotel.
The Thomasville Municipal Airport is less than four miles away.
Thomasville is famous for its annual Rose Festival, held every pril.
There is a sports complex nearby and the hotel is only minutes from downtown historic homes.
Visitors will enjoy hunting, fishing and golfing in the beautiful country setting.
A variety of restaurants and cocktail lounges are located in the surrounding area.
Hotel amenities and features include: Free continental breakfast, Free local calls, Free newspaper, Free coffee and Exercise room.
Guests of this hotel will also enjoy the picnic area, seasonal outdoor pool and sundeck.
Business travelers will appreciate free high-speed Internet access and access to copy and fax services.
Two-room Suites with refrigerators and microwaves are available.
Handicap accessible and non-smoking rooms are also available.
Quality Inn & Suites Conference Center Thomasville - Thomasville Hotels, Georgia
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John Pelham (officer)
John Pelham was an artillery officer who served with the Confederate cavalry under J.E.B. Stuart during the American Civil War. Dubbed The Gallant Pelham for his military prowess and personal courage, Pelham revolutionized the usage of light artillery as a mobile arm of the cavalry.
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Tower Rededication - 3
The old clock in the R.R. Haynes Memorial Tower in Cliffside, NC was restored in the summer of 2010, then rededicated on Oct. 8. The ceremony included the unveiling of a bronze plaque honoring Mr. Haynes and a display of a 1942 map of the town. In this segment, emcee Phillip White introduces the clock man, Jim VanOrsdel, who over the years has twice restored the antique clock's intricate mechanism.
Chinqua Penn Plantation
Calvin and Lisa Phelps continue the legacy of Reidsville's magnificent homeplace.
Produced by Our State magazine and UNC-TV, with generous support from BB&T. Segment originally aired on 7/3/2008.
Finding Your Roots: The Official Companion to the PBS Series
Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is a the heart of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Finding Your Roots. Join us this evening as Gates discusses practical information for amateur genealogists just beginning archival research, and then details the tools of cutting-edge genomics and deep genealogical research that now allows us to learn more about our roots, looking further back in time than ever before. a book signing follows the program.
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By Any Other Name: An Exploration of Afro Amerindian Heritage [2017]
By Any Other Name is a film that discusses the often overlooked interactions between Africans and American Indians in the United States.
Follow filmmaker Steven D. Gayle as he discusses his own family history while in the process of examining the larger concepts of African and Native American history in the South, and the changing documentation methods surrounding racial classification in the United States.
WINNER - Best Feature Film - the Warsaw Avenue Film Festival - Cincinnati, OH
WINNER -'Inventos Award' at the 8th FistUp Film Festival, and was a
NOMINATED - Best Documentary - West Side Mountains Documentary Festival - Epirus, Greece .
By Any Other Name has been screen at SOAS University of London, Berkeley Public Library, Kennesaw State University, The Apex Museum, the McKissick Museum and the 20th Native American Film Festival of the Southeast.
Directed by Steven D. Gayle.
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Confederate States of America | Wikipedia audio article
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The Confederate States of America (CSA or C.S.), commonly referred to as the Confederacy and the South, was an unrecognized country in North America that existed from 1861 to 1865. The Confederacy was originally formed by seven secessionist slave-holding states—South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas—in the Lower South region of the United States, whose economy was heavily dependent upon agriculture, particularly cotton, and a plantation system that relied upon the labor of African-American slaves.Each state declared its secession from the United States, which became known as the Union during the ensuing civil war, following the November 1860 election of Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. presidency on a platform which opposed the expansion of slavery into the western territories. Before Lincoln took office in March, a new Confederate government was established in February 1861, which was considered illegal by the government of the United States. States volunteered militia units and the new government hastened to form its own Confederate States Army from scratch practically overnight. After the American Civil War began in April, four slave states of the Upper South—Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina—also declared their secession and joined the Confederacy. The Confederacy later accepted Missouri and Kentucky as members, although neither officially declared secession nor were they ever largely controlled by Confederate forces; Confederate shadow governments attempted to control the two states but were later exiled from them.
The government of the United States (the Union) rejected the claims of secession and considered the Confederacy illegally founded. The War began with the Confederate attack upon Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, a Union fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. No foreign government officially recognized the Confederacy as an independent country, although Great Britain and France granted it belligerent status, which allowed Confederate agents to contract with private concerns for arms and other supplies. In early 1865, after four years of heavy fighting which led to 620,000–850,000 military deaths, all the Confederate forces surrendered and the Confederacy vanished. The war lacked a formal end; nearly all Confederate forces had been forced into surrender or deliberately disbanded by the end of 1865, by which point the dwindling manpower and resources of the Confederacy were facing overwhelming odds. By 1865, Jefferson Davis lamented that the Confederacy had disappeared.