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“napoleon crews”

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  • Eldridge House Disappearances

    by Napoleon Crews ...
    The Eldridge House Hotel in Lawrence, Kansas is an icon of the Free State struggle with the Quantrill and the Missouri Border Raiders. The hotel has survived destruction by fire, dynamite blasts, hauntings, and more, and has kept its reputation as a meeting place for Lawrence's elite. Secrets abound among those with intimate knowledge of the hotel's secret passages and ghostly sightings. This tale ... Read more

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  • Vinegar Gang Lynching - Sis Vinegar's Story (Based On True Events)

    by Napoleon Crews ...
    On June 2, 1882 at about 9:30 p.m., David Bausman met death at the Kaw River while engaging in sexual intercourse with 14 year-old Sis Vinegar. Bausman was set upon by George Robinson, Sis' boyfriend, and his friend Isaac King. On June 10, 1882 at about 1:00 a.m., a mob broke into the Douglas County Jail, removed Robinson, King, and Pete Vinegar, Sis' father, and dragged them to the Kaw River ... Read more

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  • Secret of The KU Catacombs

    by Napoleon Crews ...
    For the last 140 years, the tunnels have been called the catacombs by the students and faculty. Designed to carry steam-heat, electric lines, and water from one campus building to another, they were found to carry much more. The investigative skills of Sam Jeans, Lawrence, Kansas' real-life Negro assistant police chief, are also featured in this tale. ... Read more

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  • Last Lynching On Mount Oread

    by Napoleon Crews ...
    In 1890 Lawrence, Kansas, Negroes suffered widespread discrimination and segregation. Even the University of Kansas, built on Mount Oread, considered them incapable of learning more than rudimentary subjects such as the days of the week, months of the year, and they were required to sit in the back of the classroom. One Negro student overcame impossible odds and became the first black man to be ... Read more

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  • The Kaw Valley Scandal

    by Napoleon Crews ...
    In early Lawrence's up-and-coming years, its prominent citizenry banned together in many ways that were calculated to put the city on firm ground and solidify their own wealth and position. Not all of their efforts landed them on the right side of the law. In addition to controlling the commercial aspects of their investments into the community, it was crucial that they control the courts. This ... Read more

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  • Rearing Young Langston In Lawrence

    by Napoleon Crews ...
    Langston Hughes was one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. He was known as the poet laureate of black life and culture. His boyhood years, from 1903 to 1915, were lived in Lawrence, Kansas. Langston credits his Lawrence upbringing with having deeply influenced his writings. In 2004, his boyhood home in Lawrence was named a national poetry landmark by the Academy of American ... Read more

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  • John Brown Sparked The Civil War In Kansas

    by Napoleon Crews ...
    This novel tells the tale of John Brown from the time that he made the decision to come to Kansas, through the Battle of Black Jack, which was considered by many to be the first regular battle of the American Civil War, and then on to the siege at Harpers Ferry, where Negroes fought alongside Brown for their freedom. Finally the story takes the reader inside the courtroom at John Brown's trial and ... Read more

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  • The Emancipation Of Nate Bynum

    by Napoleon Crews ...
    As the Civil War drew to a close, one young slave is catapulted into the journey of a lifetime.The death and destruction of the American Civil War did not reach many of the isolated southern plantations until the South had already been knocked to its knees. Overnight, slaves and slaveholders, alike, were catapulted into a new and traumatic existence. For the slaveholders it meant an end to their ... Read more

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  • The Man Who Tamed Lawrence

    by Napoleon Crews ...
    In 1890, up and coming, Lawrence, Kansas, Negroes suffered widespread discrimination and segregation. In spite of these challenges, The real Sam Jeans, a Negro, was recruited for the Lawrence Police Department, and later rose to the position of assistant chief of police. The only words written about Sam and his great accomplishments were that he was fearless in danger, showed good police judgment, ... Read more

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