On March 10, 1865, Confederate soldiers hanged Amy Spain, a young Black woman, from a sycamore tree on the courthouse lawn in Darlington, South Carolina. Accused of “treason and conduct unbecoming a slave,” Amy was sentenced to death by a military tribunal and killed just weeks before the end ...
"After living with his father on a boat (large, looked almost like a cruise ship), my father went to work as a quartermaster on a boat that looked like the Delta Queen for several years and saved up for law school. He had a great knowledge of history and literature as a result of what we ...
Dr . Charles E. Stuart was born Novem- ber 24 , 1900 in Santa Paula , California , graduated in 1924 from the University of Southern California Dental School and since 1925 has worked closely with Dr . McCollum on research projects in the Dr. Stuart was a ...
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/martha-sawyer-illustration-genre-painting-60-c-9d941f5be5 https://illustrationart.blogspot.com/2008/09/martha-sawyers-1902-1988.html It was this newspaperclip, which led me to find the poster. I suppose they met in New York, where the family lived ...