1 10 5 https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/7/2252/maysonletter.png 653f7a49c5c719c8676b05c1a43208a3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource DeeDee Baldwin Assistant Professor, History Research Librarian <a href="mailto:dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu">dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Dry Grove Miss Sept 24 1875 The communcaton from the executive office came duly to hand I will state that I was in the city of Jackson Miss from the First until the tenth days of September On my return Home Sept 11th I found great excitement prevailing on account of the Clinton Troubles but no one in this immediate district had been molested I have authentic information that many white men from Copiah County were riding around in the district on Sunday Monday & Tuesday Sept 5 6 7 & 8 four men from here refuged to Jackson on account of alleged threats three of whom have returned home and one Jesse Downing is still in Jackson at work for Col Wm Y Walker every thing is quite here now but a general uneasiness prevails amongst the colored people and the Democrats are out spoken in the saying that they will carry the election at all hazards and also that it would be dangerous for such a man as F A Wolfe to attempt to speake here They also say that if we (the Republicans) hold another meeting or meetings here before the election that they will have men on the grounds to make our speakers tell the truth or [?] the stand I am free to confess that I would be powerless here to put down any political disturbance that might take place here for the reason that the whites (who are armed) would all be on one side and the blacks (who are unarmed) would all be on the other The fact is that now right here a colored man cannot buy powder & shot for love or money Respectfully Yours, <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/henry-mayson--hinds-county-">Henry Mayson</a> J. P. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Henry Mayson to Governor Ames Description An account of the resource Letter from Henry Mayson to Governor Ames about the Clinton massacre. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mayson, Henry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1875-09-24 Subject The topic of the resource <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/henry-mayson--hinds-county-">Mayson, Henry</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Document at the <a href="https://cwrgm.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi Project</a>. Original held at the Mississippi Department of Archives & History. clinton riot mayson https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/dd928c5598406438a3a24af1a76fdb65.jpg 12725f1b343e801dd95d5b53d6471ea5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource DeeDee Baldwin Assistant Professor, History Research Librarian <a href="mailto:dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu">dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu</a> Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Caldwell Historical Marker Description An account of the resource Historical marker for the <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/charles-caldwell--hinds-county">Charles Caldwell</a> assassination at the corner of Leake and Jefferson Streets in Clinton. Text: "<a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/charles-caldwell--hinds-county">Charles Caldwell</a>, Republican leader during Reconstruction, was assassinated outside Chilton's Store on the northeast corner of Leake and Jefferson Streets on December 30, 1875. <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/charles-caldwell--hinds-county">Caldwell</a>, a former slave, was a delegate to the 1868 State Constitutional Convention and in 1870 was elected to the state Senate. He organized the political rally that led to the Clinton Riot. A target of vigilantes, <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/charles-caldwell--hinds-county">Caldwell</a> was lured to the cellar of Chilton's store and killed in an ambush." Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Baldwin, DeeDee Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021-03-27 Subject The topic of the resource <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/charles-caldwell--hinds-county">Caldwell, Charles, -1875</a> caldwell clinton riot https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/488d2768c0557132eace60035dd623ba.PNG 945093df5c79da7fef08ff01640db14b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource DeeDee Baldwin Assistant Professor, History Research Librarian <a href="mailto:dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu">dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document AMES' NEGRO WARWICK During those melancholy days Hinds county had a negro sheriff named Harney, together with other negro scalawag and carpetbag officials, as well as negro members of the board of supervisors and negro constables. It also had a negro member of the state senate named <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/charles-caldwell--hinds-county">Charles Caldwell</a>, killed in Clinton after the riot. Caldwell was one of the most daring negroes of his day. He was a slayer of two white men. He was the dominant factor in the Republican party of Hinds county. He was the Warwick of the carpetbag administration of Adelbert Ames, and the dispenser of carpetbag patronage. There was a negro member of the legislature named <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/e--b--wilbourne--hinds-county-">Eugene Welborne</a>. After the revolution of 1875 the Welbournes nestled on the federal treasury in Washington, being given a place in the Interior Department, as was also the carpetbagger, A. T. Morgan, of Yazoo, who married a negro school teacher here in Jackson while a state senator. One of the first acts of Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar as Secretary of the Interior under the Cleveland administration was to incontinently dismiss Welbourne, Morgan and that ilk. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hinds County Gazette clipping Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hinds County Gazette Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1928-11-02 Subject The topic of the resource <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/e--b--wilbourne--hinds-county-">Welborne, Eugene Bonaparte</a>; <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/charles-caldwell--hinds-county">Caldwell, Charles, -1875</a>; Morgan, A. T. (Albert Talmon); Miscegenation caldwell clinton riot welborne https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/a39953e0b9cfc736e2b95ceb0958e37a.PNG f14294498f9cd8ee577003c319fc2d5e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource DeeDee Baldwin Assistant Professor, History Research Librarian <a href="mailto:dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu">dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document The ninth, and last charge, it will be seen from the evidence, is fraught with mystery. The witnesses all agree that there was a man at the Asylum, about the time of the Clinton riot, who appeared to be hiding. Gordon, the hack driver, testifies that as nearly as he can recollect, this mysterious personage was there in the Spring of the year. Every witness, except Gordon, further agree in the statement, that shortly after the riot a man was sent away from the Asylum, toward Canton, in the hack. Conway concluded that it was Charles Caldwell, Jr., for the reason that he heard one of the employees of the Asylum, whose name he could not recall, address a woman, who made her appearance shortly after the hack left, as Mrs. Caldwell. The hack driver says "that he knew both of the Caldwells and <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/e--b--wilbourne--hinds-county-">Eugene Welborne</a>, and that the man he carried to the railroad station, on the occasion referred to was neither of them. He does not know who it was." Dr. Compton voluntarily stated that it was Peter Crosby, the fugitive Sheriff of Warren county, and that he permitted him to meet his wife at the Asylum, because hw as afraid of encountering Gilmer. By reference to, James Hill's affidavit made before Chief Justice Simrall, which is filed with the evidence herein, it will be seen "that he requested Dr. Compton to permit <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/e--b--wilbourne--hinds-county-">Eugene Welborne</a> to remain at the Asylum until the excitement consequent upon the Clinton riot, had passed, but that Dr. Compton replied that the Asylum was a public institution, and under the circumstances he did not think it proper for Welborne to come there." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clarion-Ledger clipping Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Clarion-Ledger Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1878-02-13 Subject The topic of the resource <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/e--b--wilbourne--hinds-county-">Welborne, Eugene Bonaparte</a> caldwell clinton riot welborne https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/6a02a555e1d9e0595d5f2e379a4cf4ca.PNG 47d8f6702607d74a23da47b188c1b45e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource DeeDee Baldwin Assistant Professor, History Research Librarian <a href="mailto:dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu">dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/charles-caldwell--hinds-county">Charles Caldwell</a>, colored, and late Senator from Hinds county, and his brother, both very bad men and leading spirits in the late Clinton riot, and the head and center of all the devilment that has been perpetrated in that section of country for several years past, got on a big spree in Clinton last Friday and vented their wrath in abusive oaths upon the peaceably disposed white citizens of Clinton. Not content with this, they drew their revolvers and made threats against the whites. Who fired first, is not positively known, however, a general firing of pistols ensued, resulting in the killing of the two <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/charles-caldwell--hinds-county">Caldwell</a>s (a happy relief to the community,) and the serious wounding of a Dr. Banks, who will probably lose a leg. As a grand finale, and appropriate winding up of Senator <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/charles-caldwell--hinds-county">Caldwell</a>'s earthly career, Rev. <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/james-aaron-moore--lauderdale-">J. Aaron Moore</a>, the Meridian murderer and incendiary, preached the funeral sermon. Could a more suitable man have performed the task? Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Canton Mail clipping Subject The topic of the resource <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/charles-caldwell--hinds-county">Caldwell, Charles, -1875</a>; <a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/james-aaron-moore--lauderdale-">Moore, J. Aaron (James Aaron), -1904</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Canton Mail Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1876-01-08 caldwell clinton riot ja moore violence