The Cherokee Disenfranchised – Today In Southern History
26 April 1906
On this date in 1906…
The U.S. Congress passed the Burke Act which dismantled the Cherokee government and granted the U.S. President the right to pick the Chief of the Cherokee Nation, regardless of who the Cherokee selected. Guess what happened next…
Other Years:
1607 – British colonists landed at Cape Henry, Virginia before later deciding on Jamestown as a better site for the colony.
1864 - Union Gen. Frederick Steele abandoned Camden, Arkansas beginning the disastrous retreat that led to the flooded Saline River at Jenkins’ Ferry
1865- Boston Corbett, a yankee cavalry sergeant, killed John Wilkes Booth at Garrett’s barn outside Port Royal, Virginia.
1865 – Confederate General Joseph E. Johnson surrendered the Army of Tennessee at Bennet Place outside Durham Station, North Carolina.
1887 - Huntsville Electric Co formed to sell electricity in Alabama
1907 - The Jamestown, Virginia Tercentenary Exposition opened
1913 - Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old worker at a Georgia pencil factory, was strangled; Leo Frank, the factory superintendent, was convicted of her murder and sentenced to death.
1996 - In Arkansas, several Civil War monuments were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in an effort to protect them, including the El Dorado Confederate Monument in Union County, the David O. Dodd Memorial in Little Rock, and the Memorial to Company A, Capital Guards which was later illegally removed by Little Rock Mayor frank scott, jr.
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