Kalyn McCallNov 16, 20205 minA Murder, A Mob, and Mose Gibson: Death in the Time of Jim Crow - Part 6: The ExecutionOrange County wanted and needed to avoid a lynching. In many ways, the case of Mose Gibson mirrored that of Francisco Torres. Torres was ...
Kalyn McCallNov 16, 20206 minA Murder, A Mob, and Mose Gibson: Death in the Time of Jim Crow - Part 5: The ConcernsWith Gibson's confession, Orange County authorities assured the locals that they had their man. Soon, the county was flooded with inquiri...
Kalyn McCallNov 16, 202012 minA Murder, A Mob, and Mose Gibson: Death in the time of Jim Crow - Part 4: The ConfessionAfter his arrest, Gibson gave a confession to Sheriff Jackson of Orange County. Despite the inconsistencies in his statement, the confess...
Kalyn McCallOct 27, 20204 minA Murder, A Mob, and Mose Gibson: Death in the time of Jim Crow - Part 3: The Capture and The EscapeFullerton wanted justice. The white man story does not seem to have been followed up. After testing the flashlight found at the scene, Or...
Kalyn McCallOct 27, 20202 minA Murder, A Mob, and Mose Gibson: Death in the time of Jim Crow - Part 2: The SuspectsWho killed Roy Trapp? Who committed the "Satanic midnight" murders? Mirroring the Torres case, at first, it was believed that the perpetr...
Kalyn McCallOct 26, 20202 minA Murder, A Mob, and Mose Gibson: Death in the time of Jim Crow - Part 1: The CrimeJuly 15, 1920 Shortly after midnight, chaos ensued at the home of wealthy Fullerton rancher Roy G. Trapp. At the time, Roy's ranch sat on...
Kalyn McCallJun 19, 20205 minUncle Walt Embraces Aunt JemimaWalt Disney believed in Thomas Jefferson’s empire of liberty, and like Jefferson, normalized the institution of slavery in that vision. ...
Kalyn McCallJun 19, 20203 minFrom Funtown to Main Street, USA: Recreation and SegregationWhy does this matter? What do representations of black Americans have to do with Disneyland? Having spent most of his youth in Missouri, ...
Kalyn McCallJun 19, 20206 min1893 World's Fair: The Birth of a Nation, an Industry, and Aunt JemimaThe 1893 World’s Fair symbolized the United States’ ascendancy among the great powers of the world by celebrating its achievements, showc...
Kalyn McCallJun 19, 20202 minCelebrating Black Excellence: Charles Clifford "Cliff" BerkleyWhen local newspapers mentioned black Americans, it was typically in regard to crime, the “negro problem,” or some news of a lynching or ...
Kalyn McCallJun 19, 20205 minRailroads, Hoboes, and Jim Crow: Black VagrancyIn the late nineteenth century and early years of the twentieth, Southern California experienced an expansion of transcontinental, inters...
Kalyn McCallJun 19, 20202 minWoman's Work and Jim CrowOrange County has never had a substantial black population, but black people have always been a part of Orange County. Though they did no...
Kalyn McCallJun 19, 20203 minSocial Networks in Early Orange CountyFor some reason, from the winter of 1892 to the spring of 1897, local papers dedicated several news cycles to covering the alleged debauc...
Kalyn McCallJun 19, 20202 minThe Professor is In: Dr. John H.T. Dean of AnaheimWith the migration of white southerners to the Southland in the wake of the Civil War, more black Americans arrived in Orange County, som...
Kalyn McCallJun 19, 20202 minWelcome to the OCThe story of Orange County is typically seen as a story of post-war suburbanization. After World War II, new migrants - many veterans who...
Kalyn McCallJun 4, 20202 min"Red" Rogers: Anaheim PioneerWhereas narratives of Los Angeles emphasize the continual presence of people of African descent in its history - from Spanish settlement ...
