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Like Adams, he was charged with first- and second-degree murder, first- and second-degree attempted murder and related charges. Harrell will be extradited to Prince George’s County from Prince ...
- From The Plantation to The Political Arena
- Felton’s Arrival on The National Stage
- Abolition and Suffrage
- Felton’s Views on Lynching
- The First Woman Senator
Born Rebecca Latimer near Decatur, Georgia, in 1835, Felton grew up on a 725-acre plantation replete with colonial-style white columns. Her family was wealthy and enslaved numerous people. At age 18, she married William Harrell Felton, a doctor who had just served a term in the Georgia legislature. They moved to a plantation outside Cartersville, w...
The catalyst for Felton’s fame was a speech she delivered about the problems of poor farm women on August 11, 1897. While discussing white men’s failures to protect white women in front of the Georgia Agricultural Society, Felton mentioned the previous week’s lynchings of three Black men accused of rape. At the time, the racist stereotype that Afri...
While Felton promoted lynching to reel in Southern white men, Northern white suffragists were making their own political calculations to reel in Southern white women like Felton. In the early 19th century, the suffrage movement had been entwined with abolitionism. But the alliance splintered after the Civil War, when the 15th Amendmentextended voti...
Between 1882 and 1930, an explosion of racial violence unfolded across the American South, with more than 450 Black people lynched in Georgia alone. Victims included Sam Hose, whose lynching Felton personally sanctioned in 1899. Before Hose was taken captive, tortured and burned alive near Atlanta, Felton told the Atlanta Constitution that he “may ...
In 1919, Congress passed the 19th Amendment, prohibiting voting rights from being denied “on account of sex.” Georgia refused to ratify the amendment, but it became law anyway in August 1920, when Tennessee became the 36th state to vote in its favor. Georgia was among a small number of states that barred women from voting in the 1920 election, as t...
William Harrell Felton (June 19, 1823 – September 24, 1909) was an American politician, army surgeon, and Methodist minister. Felton was elected to three terms of office to the United States House of Representatives as an Independent Democrat , where he served as a sharp critic of commercial and financial interests and the return to the gold ...
Jan 19, 2020 · I consider Rebecca Latimer Felton (b. 1835) to be one of these powerful women. Felton became the oldest freshman senator - and first female senator - at eighty-seven years old in 1922. In this article I analyze the political career of Rebecca Felton—a patriotic and successful, yet highly controversial legislator in the Progressive Era.
2 days ago · Thu, May 30, 2024, 4:04 PM EDT · 1 min read. PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Md. - A second suspect has been arrested for a fatal shooting at a car meetup in Prince George’s County that left one man ...
3 days ago · PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD —The Prince George’s County Police Department’s Homicide Unit has charged 21-year-old Caimon Harrell of Woodbridge, Virginia, as a second suspect in a fatal shooting at a car meet. The incident, which resulted in the death of 26-year-old John Phipps of Waldorf, occurred on May 19, 2024, around 1:45 am.
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Jan 10, 2022 · The next year, she married William Harrell Felton, a wealthy doctor 12 years her senior. Advertisement Felton opposed secession, though her husband volunteered as a Confederate military doctor.
