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  1. A Clipping About Remarks at Chanelle Pickett's Candlelight Vigil

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Humphries, Marilyn
    Date: Jan. 1996
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, Gender transgression, Hate crimes, LGBTQ+ memorials, LGBTQ+ siblings, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Trans women
    Subject: Chanelle Pickett, Gabrielle Pickett, Nancy Nangeroni
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  2. A Clipping About Rita Hester's Murder and Other Boston Violence

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Panepento, Peter, Goldstein, Debra
    Date: Dec. 29, 1998
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ memorials, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Trans women
    Subject: Rita Hester
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  3. A Collection of Clippings Featuring Marlow Monique Dickson

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Black transgender people, Dancers, LGBTQ+ theater, QTPOC, Trans women
    Subject: Marlow La Fantastique, Marlow Monique Dickson
    Description: A collection of clippings featuring Marlow Monique Dickson. The clippings include different advertisements for her shows.
  4. A Colored Man Who Successfully Passed as a Woman for 27 Years

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The Milan Exchange
    Date: Jul. 20, 1876
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, BIPOC, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Trans women, Transgender disabled people
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: A clipping from The Milan Exchange about Frances Thompson's life, following her death in 1876.
  5. A Mask Lifted

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 11, 1876
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, BIPOC, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Trans women, Transgender disabled people, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault.
  6. Arrest of a Notorious Character

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
    Date: Jul. 12, 1876
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, BIPOC, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Passing (Gender), Trans women, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item depicts potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault.
  7. By Telegraph

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 10, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black people, Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ death notices, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Trans women
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: A clipping from the Puget Sound Weekly Argus announcing the death of Frances Thompson.
  8. Chanelle Pickett Murder Trial Postponed

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Boyce, Ed
    Date: Mar. 9, 1997
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Trans women, Trials (Murder)
    Subject: Chanelle Pickett
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  9. Changing Perceptions About Hate Crimes

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Apr. 13, 1999
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, Hate crimes, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Trans women
    Subject: Fenway Community Health Center, Matthew Shepard, Rita Hester
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  10. Dorchester Man Found Murdered

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 13, 1998
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, Murder--Investigation, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Trans women
    Subject: Monique Thomas
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  11. Dorian Corey Is Dead

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 31, 1993
    Topics: Black LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, Drag, Female impersonators, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ death notices, Trans women
    Subject: Dorian Corey, Paris Is Burning, Sally's Hideaway, Sally's II
    Description: A clipping from the New York Times about the death of Dorian Corey, a Black trans woman.
  12. Eliza Pinkston

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 30, 1876
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, BIPOC, Black people, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Trans women, Transgender disabled people, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Eliza Pinkston, Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault and physical violence.
  13. Evening Star

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 19, 1876
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, BIPOC, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Passing (Gender), Trans women, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault.
  14. Facts and Fancies

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Public Ledger
    Date: Nov. 11, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ death notices, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Trans women
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: A clipping from the Public Ledger mentioning Frances Thompson's death.
  15. Frances Thompson

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 29, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Passing (Gender), Trans women, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault.
  16. Frances Thompson

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 14, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Passing (Gender), Trans women, Transfemininity
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: An article in the Memphis Daily Appeal summarizing an interview with Frances Thompson.
  17. Frances Thompson Dead

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Public Ledger
    Date: Nov. 3, 1876
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, BIPOC, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Trans women, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Barbour Lewis, Ku Klux Klan
    Description: Content Warning: This item depicts potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault.
  18. Francis Thomas

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1876
    Topics: Black transgender people, Chain gangs, Police harassment, Trans women, Transgender victims of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson, Lucy Smith
    Description: Subtitle: The Vile and Villainous Negro, Who, for Twenty-Seven Years, Has Passed Himself off as a Woman-His Arrest. Article in The Daily Gazette about Frances Thompson's arrest that also details he...
  19. From Man to Woman- Part I

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Newton, Delisa
    Date: Apr. 1966
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Gender affirming surgery, Trans women, Transfeminine people, Transgender community
    Subject: Delisa Newton
    Description: An article written by Delisa Newton in which she discusses having gender affirming surgery, transitioning, and finally living as her true self.
  20. From Man to Woman- Part II

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Newton, Delisa
    Date: May 1966
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Gender affirming surgery, Trans women, Transfeminine people, Transgender community
    Subject: Delisa Newton
    Description: An article written by Delisa Newton in which she discusses having gender affirming surgery, transitioning, and finally living as her true self.
  21. Grist From the Outrage Mill

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 28, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black people, Black transgender people, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Trans women, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault.
  22. Hanging with a Queen

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: LeWine, Sarah
    Date: Dec. 1, 1995
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, Drag community, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ people, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Trans women
    Subject: Chanelle Pickett, Vaunessa Vale
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  23. Hard on the Stalwarts

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The Memphis Daily Appeal
    Date: May 21, 1880
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, BIPOC, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Night riding (Racial violence), Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Trans women, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault and racial violence.
  24. Hate Crime Reports on the Rise

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Witkowski, Tom
    Date: Apr. 13, 1999
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, Hate crimes, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Trans women
    Subject: Anti Violence Project, Fenway Community Health Center, George A. Stallings, Monique Thomas, Rita Hester
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  25. Judge Imposes Maximum Sentence in Pickett Case

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: King, Loren
    Date: May 22, 1997 to May 28, 1997
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ siblings, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Trans women, Trials (Murder)--Massachusetts
    Subject: Adrienne Lynch, Chanelle Pickett, Combat Zone (Location), Gabrielle Pickett, Nancy Nangeroni, Playland Cafe, Robert A. Barton, Violence Recovery Program, William C. Palmer
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  26. Ku-Klux Outrages

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 20, 1876
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, BIPOC, Black people, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Passing (Gender), Trans women, Transgender disabled people, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault and violence.
  27. Ledger Lines

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 1, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Trans women, Transgender disabled people
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: A clipping from the newspaper The Public Ledger about Frances Thompson.
  28. Ledger Lines [1]

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 18, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Trans women, Transgender disabled people
    Description: An article in the Public Ledger that mentions Frances Thompson.
  29. Ledger Lines [2]

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 14, 1876
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, BIPOC, Black transgender people, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Trans women, Transgender disabled people
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to ableist language.
  30. Ledger Lines [3]

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 13, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Trans women
    Subject: Frances Thompson, Lucy Smith
    Description: Published in the newspaper The Public Ledger.
  31. Ledger Lines [4]

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 17, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Passing (Gender), Trans women
    Description: Content warning: this item contains racist language.
  32. Ledger Lines [5]

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Public Ledger
    Date: Feb. 16, 1878
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, BIPOC, Black people, Black transgender people, Crossdressing, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Trans women
    Subject: Frances Thompson, Jenny Smith
    Description: A clipping from Public Ledger about Jenny Smith, who was arrested and fined for wearing female apparel, and compared to Frances Thompson.
  33. Ledger Lines [6]

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 9, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Trans women, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault.
  34. Local Paragraphs

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 2, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black people, Black transgender people, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Trans women
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: A clipping from the Memphis Daily Appeal mentioning Frances Thompson.
  35. Local Paragraphs [1]

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 4, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black people, Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ death notices, Trans women
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: A clipping from the Memphis Daily Appeal announcing the death of Frances Thompson.
  36. Local Paragraphs [2]

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 18, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Trans women
    Description: An article in the Memphis Daily Appeal that mentions the arrest of Frances Thompson.
  37. Major W. J. Sykes

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 19, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Trans women, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: An article in the Memphis Daily Appeal discussing voting rights that mentions Frances Thompson.
  38. Marlow Brings Antiques to Sutherland

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Antique dealers, Black transgender people, Dancers, LGBTQ+ theater, QTPOC, Trans women
    Subject: Josephine Baker, Larry Steele Revue, Marlow La Fantastique, Marlow Monique Dickson
    Description: A clipping about Marlow Monique Dickson and her career as a dancer and performer.
  39. Memphis Appeal

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The Memphis Daily Appeal
    Date: Dec. 1, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Trans women, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Eliza Pinkston, Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item depicts potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault.
  40. Memphis Appeal

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 18, 1870
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Trans women
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Clipping published in the Memphis Daily Appeal
  41. Miscellaneous

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 21, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ death notices, Trans women
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: An article that mentions the passing of Frances Thompson.
  42. More Medical Discoveries

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 2, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black people, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Trans women, Transgender disabled people, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault.
  43. On WNET and Nationwide, the Rainbow Flags are Flying

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Gates, Anita
    Date: Aug. 24, 1994
    Topics: Bisexuality, Black transgender people, Drag queens, Homosexuality, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ choruses, LGBTQ+ demonstrations, LGBTQ+ people of color, Trans women
    Subject: A Day in the Life of Lady Chablis, Angels in America, Bob Dole, George C. Wolfe, Ian Mckellen, Katherine Linton, Lady Chablis, Liza Minnelli, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Melissa Etheridge, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Pat Buchanan, PBS, Rent, The Doll, The Grand Empress
    Description: New York Times article featuring mention of "A Day in the life of Lady Chablis", a segment hosted by PBS about Lady Chablis, a Black trans woman performer.
  44. Photographs of Marlow Monique Dickson in a Magazine

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Black transgender people, QTPOC, Trans women
    Subject: Marlow Monique Dickson
    Description: A page of a magazine featuring a series of photographs of Marlow Monique Dickson, including a handwritten correction adding the "w" to the printed text where Marlow's name is misspelled.
  45. Photographs of Marlow Monique Dickson Posing on a Bed

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Black transgender people, QTPOC, Trans women
    Subject: Marlow Monique Dickson
    Description: A page from a magazine featuring black and white photographs of Marlow Monique Dickson posing on a bed. "Marlow" is written in colored ink across the top and bottom of the page and a "w" was added ...
  46. Police Take Murder Mystery to the Television Screen

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Goldstein, Debra
    Date: Feb. 16, 1999
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Trans women
    Subject: Brenda Wynne, Diana Hester, Kathleen Hester, Rita Hester, Silhouette Lounge
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  47. "Preppy" Allegedly Kills Date in Drag

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Johnson, Jason B., Talbot, David
    Date: Nov. 21, 1995
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, Murder--Investigation, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Trans women
    Subject: Chanelle Pickett, Combat Zone (Location), Playland Cafe, William C. Palmer
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  48. Preppy Wanted Dates in Drag, Cops Say

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Flynn, Sean, Johnson, Jason B.
    Date: Nov. 23, 1995
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ siblings, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Trans women
    Subject: Adrienne Lynch, Chanelle Pickett, Combat Zone (Location), Gabrielle Pickett, Playland Cafe, William C. Palmer
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  49. Public Ledger

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 26, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Trans women
    Subject: Eliza Pinkston, Frances Thompson
    Description: Clipping from the newspaper The Public Ledger. A judge compares the court cases of Frances Thompson and Eliza Pinkston.
  50. Radical Theft, Lying, Deceit and Trickery

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 2, 1877
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Trans women, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item depicts potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault.
  51. 'Rita' Murder Mystery Still Unsolved

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Goldstein, Debra
    Date: Dec. 15, 1998
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ memorials, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Trans women
    Subject: Boston Herald, Brenda Wynne, Darrell Hester, Eartha Hester, Jacque's, Nancy Nangeroni, Rita Hester
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  52. Schools For Training Liars

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 5, 1884
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, BIPOC, Black people, Black transgender people, Trans women, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item depicts potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault and the use of transphobic language.
  53. Singular Case

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 21, 1878
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, BIPOC, Black transgender people, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Passing (Gender), Trans women, Transfemininity, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item depicts potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault.
  54. Slain Man's Car is Found by Police

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 15, 1998
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, Murder--Investigation, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Trans women
    Subject: Monique Thomas
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  55. Southern Items

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 16, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ death notices, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Trans women
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Clipping from the newspaper The Lake County Star that mentions Frances Thompson
  56. Stabbing Victim a Mystery to Many

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Vasquez, Daniel
    Date: Dec. 1998
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Trans women
    Subject: Rita Hester
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  57. Suspect Arrested, Faces Extradition

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The Associated Press
    Date: Sep. 23, 1998
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, Murder--Investigation, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Trans women
    Subject: George A. Stallings, Monique Thomas
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  58. Tennessee News

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The Memphis Daily Appeal
    Date: Jan. 19, 1877
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, BIPOC, Black people, Black transgender people, Crossdressing, Trans women
    Subject: Frances Thompson, Sally Walker
    Description: An article in The Memphis Daily Appeal mentioning the arrest of Sally Walker on the basis of wearing female clothes. The clipping compares the case of Sally Walker to that of Frances Thompson.
  59. The "Cock and Bull" - Story of Eliza Pinkston

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 9, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Trans women, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Eliza Pinkston, Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault.
  60. The Congressional Committee and the Memphis Riots

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The Plymouth Weekly Democrat
    Date: Aug. 16, 1866
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Trans women, Transgender disabled people
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: An article initially published in The Memphis Daily Avalanche on the Congressional Committee created for the 1866 Memphis Riots. The clipping identifies and briefly discusses Frances Thompson as on...
  61. The "Crutchy" Club

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 22, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black people, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Trans women, Transgender disabled people, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault.
  62. The Memphis Massacre

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 28, 1866
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Police harassment, Trans women, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson, Lucy Hunt, Lucy Smith
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to racist language and sexual assault.
  63. The Memphis Riots

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 21, 1866
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Trans women, Transgender disabled people, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault.
  64. The Sentinel

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 19, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Chain gangs, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Trans women, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault.
  65. The Southern Outrages Incredible Radical Stories

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 19, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black people, Black transgender people, Trans women, Transgender disabled people
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault.
  66. The Spirit of Democracy

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The Spirit of Democracy
    Date: Dec. 26, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black people, Black transgender people, Trans women, Witnesses
    Subject: Eliza Pinkston, Frances Thompson
    Description: An article from the The Spirit of Democracy discussing the testimony of Eliza Pinkston in relation to the New Orleans race riots. Frances Thompson is also mentioned.
  67. The Vodoo Profession

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 19, 1873
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Trans women, Transgender disabled people, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson, Voodoo
    Description: An article in the Public Ledger that talks about the case of the State vs. Frances Thompson involving Voodoo.
  68. Thompson

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The Memphis Daily Appeal
    Date: Jul. 13, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Police harassment, Trans women, Transgender disabled people, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: American Civil War, Frances Thompson, Lucy Smith
    Description: Content Warning: This item depicts potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault.
  69. Thompson's Joke

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 12, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Trans women, Transgender survivors of rape
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault.
  70. Trans Killing Fields

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 1996
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Trans men, Trans women
    Subject: Brandon Teena, Chanelle Pickett, Deborah Forte, Gabrielle Pickett, Quincy Taylor, Tyra Hunter
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  71. Transgender Man killed in Hub

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Giordano, Scott A.
    Date: Dec. 3, 1998
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Trans women
    Subject: Rita Hester
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  72. Transsexual's Killing Seen As Wakeup Call

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Neff, Susan E.
    Date: Jul. 1996
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, Hate crimes, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Trans women
    Subject: Chanelle Pickett, Combat Zone (Location), Gabrielle Pickett, Nancy Nangeroni, Playland Cafe, William C. Palmer
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  73. Transvestite Murder Trial Underway

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Update
    Date: Apr. 23, 1997
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Trans women, Trials (Murder)
    Subject: Chanelle Pickett
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  74. Troy Herald

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 8, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black people, Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ death notices, Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866, Trans women, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault.
  75. Weekly Intelligencer

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 9, 1876
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Trans women, Transgender survivors of rape
    Subject: Frances Thompson
    Description: An article in the Weekly Intelligencer that mentions the Frances Thompson case.