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Loses Nickel, kills five and himself, Kokomo Daily Tribune (June 27, 1916) (p. 3) Negro loses Nickel; kills four, The Pioneer Express (June 30, 1916) Negro loses Nickel; kills four, Cut Bank Pioneer Press (June 30, 1916) Six die in quarrel; result of crap game, Arkansas Democrat (June 26, 1916) v. t.

Jesse Washington was a seventeen-year-old African American farmhand who was lynched in the county seat of Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916, in what became a well-known example of racist lynching. Washington was convicted of raping and murdering Lucy Fryer, the wife of his white employer in rural Robinson, Texas.

Murder of Willie Brewster. Murder of Jonathan Daniels. The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United States.

Anniston: 1909–1910 21 Lyric Theatre: August 6, 1976: Anniston: c. 1918 NRHP 22 Mallory-Scarborough-Prather House July 5, 1983: Choccolocco vicinity 1840s 23 Parker Memorial Baptist Church: September 24, 1981: Anniston: c. 1888 NRHP 24 Patillo House September 7, 1984: Oxford: c. 1864 25 Oxford Historic District March 29, 2018: Oxford: 1875 ...

Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard (March 4, 1908 – May 1, 1976) was an American civil rights leader, fraternal organization leader, entrepreneur and surgeon. Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard is one of several prominent Black physicians of the Civil Rights Movement whose legacy is profoundly overlooked and forgotten.

Tyrus Raymond Cobb (December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961), nicknamed " the Georgia Peach ", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) center fielder. He was born in rural Narrows, Georgia. Cobb spent 22 seasons with the Detroit Tigers, the last six as the team's player-manager, and finished his career with the Philadelphia Athletics.