In October 1889, tensions between Marshal Domingus and the Farmers Alliance leader George Stinger boiled over into the “Dothan Riot.”
The Domingus name is well known in Dothan.
In 1888, Dothan mayor A.C. Crawford appointed 19-year-old J.L. “Tobe” Domingus as town marshal to keep the peace and help control Farmer’s Alliance members who established their own cotton gin that competed with merchants’ and bankers’ commerce. In October 1889, tensions between Marshal Domingus and the Alliance leader…
The ACL Extra East train on the siding at Grimes, a few miles east of the accident. (Wiregrass Archives)
The year 1963 was historically important in and around Alabama. It opened with the gubernatorial inauguration of George Wallace. That spring, civil rights marches erupted in Birmingham, including Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and the Children’s March. In May, to welcome Attorney General Bobby Kennedy, Governor Wallace raised the Confederate battle flag over the state…
Class SE-42-H before Napier Field HQ building, 1942. (TROY photo/Wiregrass Archives)
During World War 2, the skies over Great Britain were filled with too many German airplanes, and the weather was too inclement, for pilot-cadets to train safely. So they trained in colonies like India and South Africa, but they also trained in the US from June 1941 to March 1943.
AT-6 trainers on Napier Field. (TROY…
Rising Waters is a multi-player game focused on the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and the Jim Crow south.
Troy University history professor Dr. Scout Blum has merged game playing and academics with her newest creation, a board game called Rising Waters, which aims to give students a better understanding of one of the most destructive disasters in US history and the themes of racism and perseverance.
Rising Waters is a multi-player board game centered around…
