Hundreds of African Americans from rural Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina moved to Muncie in the 1890s as a result. Historians Hurley Goodall and Elizabeth Campbell wrote in 2004 ...

“In the 1890s, according to his daughter Eva ... Wynne said he especially enjoys “doing research on African American subjects as I am breaking new ground every day in this area.

She was born in Atlanta, Texas, one county over from Paris, Texas, where whites lynched at least nine Black men between 1890 and 1920. African Americans were barred from voting through literacy ...

some states enacted a grandfather clause in the early 1890s. The clause waived literacy tests and additional requirements for men whose descendants could vote before 1867, and African American men ...