Junius Street
Junius Street is named after Junius W. Peak who was a Confederate soldier. After the Civil War he was a deputy sheriff in Dallas and a member of the Ku Klux Klan. A short biography of him is online at the Texas State Historical Association Handbook https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fpe03.
To read about the horrible atrocities committed against the Freedmen of Texas by ex-Confederates and Klansmen you can go to this website.
http://freedmensbureau.com/texas/index.htm
I also have a Gaston Avenue and Junius Street bibliography which follows the Mapping
To read about the horrible atrocities committed against the Freedmen of Texas by ex-Confederates and Klansmen you can go to this website.
http://freedmensbureau.com/texas/index.htm
I also have a Gaston Avenue and Junius Street bibliography which follows the Mapping
Recommended Books
1. "Grass-Roots Reconstruction in Texas, 1865-1880," by Randolph B. Campbell, Louisiana State University Press, 1997. Very good history showing the campaign of violence against African Americans and white Unionists in Texas with a chapter on Dallas. Basically a murderous campaign of violence with the control of city government in the hands of white supremacists and Klansmen.
2. The United Daughters of the Confederacy and other early 20th century neo-Confederate groups considered the Ku Klux Klan the heroic effort of the ex-Confederate solider.
This book book by S.E.F. Rose resulted in her becoming the Historian General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and was recommend reading for members. It was also endorsed without opposition by both the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans. This is a link to an online readable version.
https://archive.org/stream/cu31924083530117#page/n7/mode/2up
You can also download it in any number of formats.
3. "Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, 1862," by Richard B. McCaslin, Louisiana State Univ. Press. In the mapping I have listed the 42 people murdered by secessionists in Gainesville, Texas. There is a continuity of violence from during the Civil War to the Ku Klux Klan and organized and unorganized violence against African Americans to lynching later in American history.
4. https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/ "Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror," 3rd edition. Published by the Equal Justice Initiative. As stated in discussing "Tainted Breeze" there is an ongoing history of terror against African Americans. Junius Peak represents one phase of this.
2. The United Daughters of the Confederacy and other early 20th century neo-Confederate groups considered the Ku Klux Klan the heroic effort of the ex-Confederate solider.
This book book by S.E.F. Rose resulted in her becoming the Historian General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and was recommend reading for members. It was also endorsed without opposition by both the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans. This is a link to an online readable version.
https://archive.org/stream/cu31924083530117#page/n7/mode/2up
You can also download it in any number of formats.
3. "Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, 1862," by Richard B. McCaslin, Louisiana State Univ. Press. In the mapping I have listed the 42 people murdered by secessionists in Gainesville, Texas. There is a continuity of violence from during the Civil War to the Ku Klux Klan and organized and unorganized violence against African Americans to lynching later in American history.
4. https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/ "Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror," 3rd edition. Published by the Equal Justice Initiative. As stated in discussing "Tainted Breeze" there is an ongoing history of terror against African Americans. Junius Peak represents one phase of this.
Mapping
The following PDF represents the mapping onto the addresses of Junius Street incidents of racial terror against African Americans. I hope to find a good listing of racial terror against Mexican Americans also.
I will be adding in more material as time goes on.
I will be adding in more material as time goes on.
Bibliography
I will be mailing this bibliography to the residents of Gaston Avenue and Junius Street.
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