99. George C. Wright, Life behind the Veil: Blacks in Louisville, Kentucky 1865–1930 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985), 63.
100. Ibid., 62.
101. “Kentucky's Negro Orators and the ‘Separate Coach,’” Indianapolis Freeman, February 13, 1892, 3.
102. Kentucky Leader, April 19, 1892.
103. “The Color Line in Kentucky,” Bridgeton Evening News, April 1, 1892, 2.
104. “A Day's Happenings,” Aberdeen Daily News, April 4, 1892, 3; “The General Assembly,” Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, May 24, 1892, 3; “Color Line in Kentucky,” 2.
105. Wichita Daily Eagle, May 25, 1892, 4.
106. “Sporting News,” Detroit Plaindealer, May 13, 1892, 1.
107. “Pessara Wins the Handicap,” Philadelphia Inquirer, May 31, 1892, 1.
108. “Sir Walter a Grand Colt,” New York Times, July 12, 1892, 3.
109. “Don Alonzo's Victory,” New York Herald-Tribune, July 24, 1892, 1.
110. “Racing Note,” New York Times, July 27, 1892, 3.
111. “A Futurity for Morello,” New York Times, August 28, 1892, 3.
112. “Horses and Their Owners,” New York Times, February 11, 1893, 6.
113. “Out at Churchill Downs,” Live Stock Record 37, no. 7 (February 18, 1893): 109.
114. “Jockeys Signed—Prominent Riders Who Have Made Contracts for the Year,” Times Picayune, February 26, 1893, 3.
115. “Local Turf News,” Live Stock Record 37, no. 12 (March 25, 1893): 207.
116. “Second Day—Track Sloppy, Weather Cloudy,” Live Stock Record 37, no. 18 (May 6, 1893): 322.
117. “Some Race Doings,” Cleveland Gazette, May 13, 1893, 1.
118. “The Kentucky Derby: The Nineteenth Renewal of that Classic Event,” Live Stock Record 37, no. 19 (May 13, 1893): 352.
119. “The Derby Today,” Idaho Statesman, May 10, 1893, 1.
120. “The Kentucky Derby,” Oregonian, May 10, 1893, 2.
121. “Lookout Wins: Thirty Thousand People See the Kentucky Derby Run,” Cleveland Plaindealer, May 11, 1893, 5.
122. “Latonia Jockey Club,” Live Stock Record 37, no. 22, (June 3, 1893): 403.
123. “Morello Had a Walkover: Mississippi Stakes at St. Louis Taken without Exertion,” Daily Inter-Ocean, June 16, 1893, 4.
124. “Light Card and Small Crowd: St. Louis Events Nearly Ruined by General Scratching,” Daily Inter-Ocean, June 21, 1893, 4.
125. “Aristides Dead,” Live Stock Record 37, no. 25 (June 24, 1893): 453.
126. “Great Day for Sports,” Evansville Courier and Press, June 25, 1893, 1.
127. Ibid.
128. “A Great Stake for Boundless,” New York Times, June 25, 1893, 3.
129. “Great Day for Sports,” Evansville Courier and Press, June 25, 1893, 1.
130. Leon Taylor, “Isaac Murphy, Winner of Fourteen American Derbies,” Abbott's Monthly, July 1932, 46.
131. Live Stock Record 38, no. 1 (July 1, 1893): 8.
132. Live Stock Record 38, no. 2 (July 8, 1893): 28.
133. Live Stock Record 38, no. 4 (July 22, 1893): 59.
134. The American Turf: An Historical Account of Racing in the United States, with Biographical Sketches of Turf Celebrities (New York: Historical Company, 1898), 356.
135. Live Stock Record 38, no. 7 (August 12, 1893): 105.
136. “Isaac Murphy May Ride No More,” Baltimore Sun, December 18, 1893, 7.
137. “Local Turf News,” Live Stock Record 38, no. 27 (December 30, 1893): 422.
138. “The National Jockey Club,” Live Stock Record 39, no. 2 (January 13, 1894): 23.
139. William H. P. Robertson, The History of Thoroughbred Racing in America (New York: Bonanza Books, 1964), 174–76.
140. “A New Starting Device,” Live Stock Record 39, no. 2 (January 13, 1894): 42.
141. “Isaac Murphy Will Ride Again,” Live Stock Record 39, no. 1 (January 6, 1894): 4.
142. Ibid.
143. “Registered Owners’ Colors,” Live Stock Record 39, no. 6 (February 10, 1894): 87.
144. “Local Turf News,” Live Stock Record 39, no. 9 (March 3, 1894): 134.
145. “Isaac Murphy Will Ride Again,” 4.
146. “Jockeys Granted Licenses,” Live Stock Record 39, no. 14 (April 7, 1894): 211.
147. “Horses in Training,” Live Stock Record 39, no. 15 (April 14, 1894): 227.
148. “Winning Stables at Lexington,” Live Stock Record 39, no. 20 (May 19, 1894): 306.
149. “Louisville Jockey Club,” Live Stock Record 39, no. 20 (May 19, 1894): 306.
150. “Louisville Jockey Club,” Live Stock Record 39, no. 21 (May 26, 1894): 322.
151. “Latonia Jockey Club,” Live Stock Record 39, no. 23 (June 9, 1894): 356.
152. “Latonia Jockey Club,” Live Stock Record 39, no. 24 (June 16, 1894): 373.
153. Willa Cather, “The Derby Winner,” Nebraska State Journal, October 5, 1894, 6.
154. Robyn R. Warhol, “Ain't I de One Everybody Come to See,” in Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture, ed. Henry Jenkins et al. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002), 665.
155. Spirit of the Times, December 1, 1894, 670.
156. “Horses and Their Owners,” New York Times, December 14, 1894, 7.
157. “She Wants Her Boy,” Morning Herald, March 15, 1895, 4.
158. Ibid.
159. “Soldiers against Tigers,” Kansas City Times, April 4, 1895, 5.
160. “New Memphis Jockey Club Races,” Thoroughbred Record, April 19, 1895, 253.
161. “Talk about Turf Affairs: Sims's Victory over English Jockeys,” New York Herald-Tribune, April 22, 1895, 3.
162. “The Lexington Meeting,” Thoroughbred Record, May 4, 1895, 285.
163. “Hornpipe's Handicap,” Dallas Morning News, May 16, 1895, 3.
164. “Hornpipe's Brooklyn Handicap: The Light Weighted Colt from the Keene's Stable Outfoots a Rare Field in the Big Race at Gravesend,” New York Herald, May 16, 1895, 4.
165. “Hornpipe Wins: The Great Gravesend Handicap Race Won by Hornpipe,” Grand Forks Herald, May 16, 1895, 1.
166. Ibid.
167. “Lazzarone Vindicated,” Thoroughbred Record, June 22, 1895, 392.
168. “To Be Investigated: Stewards of the Meeting Question the Owner and Trainer of Lazzarone,” New York Herald, June 16, 1895, 3.
169. “Racing at Lexington,” Thoroughbred Record, November 23, 1895, 243.
9. A Pageantry of Woe
1. “Isaac Murphy: Biographical Sketch of the Great Lexington Jockey,” Lexington Leader, March 20, 1889, 3.
2. Letter dated April 28, 1967, from Frank Borries to Amelia from the Keeneland Library, describing his interview with Mrs. Nancy (Nannie Atchison) Slade. This letter is in the Betty Borries Collection of Isaac Murphy materials, Center of Excellence for the Study of Kentucky African Americans, Kentucky State University.
3. “Noted Jockeys to Act as Pall Bearers at Isaac Murphy's Funeral, Kentucky Leader, February 14, 1896, 8.
Epilogue
1. See “In the Courts,” Morning Herald, March 10, 1896. Isaac Murphy's will stipulated that his outstanding bills be paid, including his funeral expenses. He named Lucy B. Murphy as his sole executor. His estate was valued at $30,000, which included the property in Lexington and in Chicago.
2. Ed Hotaling, The Great Black Jockeys: The Lives and Times of the Men Who Dominated America's First National Sport (Rocklin, CA: Forum Prima Publishing, 1999), 298.
3. “Hamilton Is All Right,” New York Times, August 1, 1896, 1.
4. Newspaper clipping from the Lexington Herald, June 26, 1955, in the Frank and Betty Borries Collection of Isaac Murphy material, Keeneland Library.
5. Joe Thomas, Lexington Herald, June 28, 1955.
6. See Frank Borries's notes, articles, and newspaper clippings in the Betty Borries Collection of Isaac Murphy materials, Kentucky State University.
Index
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abolitionists/abolitionism: black abolitionists' visions for “colored people” following the Emancipation Proclamation; in the Civil War era; colonization movement; in the early 1800s; impact of fugitive slave narratives on; response to the expulsion of black women and children from Camp Nelson
“abroad” marriages
abstinence
Adam (slave)
Adams, Henry
Adams, John
Adams, Samuel
Adams, Susie
African American children: conditions at Camp Nelson; education and (see black education); expulsion from Camp Nelson. See also slaves/slavery: children
African American fraternal organizations. See also Freemasonry
African American identity: development and social conditioning in slave children; race-based orientation of American identity and
African American men: acting in colonial defenses against Native Americans; in the development of the horse racing industry; evidence of capacity for citizenship; exclusion from professional baseball; “impressment” during the Civil War; as laborers in the horse industry; in Lord Dunmore's War; military service and (see black soldiers); Murphy and black masculinity; personal transformations at Camp Nelson; racial hostility against in the 1880s; role in westward exploration and expansion; sexual relationships with white women
African Americans: the Chester Arthur presidency and; competition and tension with immigrants; demonization of; in the development of the horse racing industry; early defense of their natural rights; exodus from Kentucky in the 1880s; “fictive” kinship names; First Continental Congress and; formalization of segregation and; hopes regarding the outcome of the Civil War; implications of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 being declared unconstitutional; “jumped a broom” marriage custom; opposition and resistance to slavery; participation in the American discourse on freedom, equality, and citizenship; population in Kentucky; the race-based orientation of American identity and; race relations in the 1870s; race relations in the 1880s; race relations in the 1890s; sensibilities toward sex and marriage; suffrage and; Thirteenth Amendment and; violence against. See also freedmen; slaves/slavery
African American women: black women's power; conditions at Camp Nelson; expulsion from Camp Nelson; infanticide and; issues of concern in the 1870s; Lucy Murphy and black womanhood; Order of the Eastern Stars and; as “outsiders within,”; power in the black community and; property ownership and; prostitution and; roles in the black community; sexual relationships with white men; white retaliation against the wives of black soldiers during the Civil War
African Baptist Church. See also First African Baptist Church
African Cemetery Number Two
Afro-American League of New York
“Aintree Calls” (Ogilvie)
Alexander, Robert Atchison
Allen, Alonzo
Allen, Dudley
Allen, F. D.
American Anti-Slavery Society
American colonies: African American men acting in defense against Native American attacks; African American men in westward exploration and expansion; African American participation in the discourse on freedom, equality, and citizenship; black soldiers; Continental Congresses; discussions of slavery; impact of westward expansion on Native Americans; origins and consequences of the French and Indian War; westward expansion and the extension of slavery; westward expansion into Kentucky County
American Colonization Society
American Derby: 1884 running; 1885 running; 1886 running; 1887 running; 1888 running; 1889 running; 1893 running
American identity: race-based orientation of; westward expansion and notions of a divine right
American Missionary Association (AMA)
Anderson, Charles
Anne (slave). See under Murphy, America
Anson, Adrian “Cap,”
anti-Semitism
Anti-Separate Coach State Convention
Arcaro, Eddie
Archer, Fred
Armstead, Myra
Army of the Department of the Tennessee
Army of the James
Army of the Ohio
Arthur, Chester A.
Association Course. See Kentucky Association Race Course
Atchison, Nannie
Atchison, William
Atkins, Col. Smith D.
aurora borealis of 1870
Autumn Stakes
Baldwin, Elias Jackson “Lucky”: 1884 American Derby and; horse breeding and; Murphy's 1879 racing season; Murphy's 1881 racing season; Murphy's 1885 racing season; Murphy's 1886 racing season; Murphy's 1887 racing season; Murphy's 1888 racing season; Murphy's trips to visit in Santa Anita; preparations for the 1887 racing season; salaries paid to Murphy
Barbee, George
Barnes, A. M.
Barnes, Pike
Barrow, David
baseball: exclusion of black athletes from
Bashford Manor
Bell, Morrison M.
bell ringers. See also Murphy, Green
Belmont, August
Bennett, P.
Bergan, Marty
Berry, T. M.
Beverwyck Stable
Bibb, Henry
Bibbs, Nathan
Bird, William “Bill,”
Birney, William
black church: education of black children and; in Kentucky
black education: Colored Education Convention in Louisville; Colored Men's State Educational Union and; development during the Reconstruction era; funding issues in Lexington; Kentucky's Negro Fund for; Murphy's education; role of the black church in; white resistance to and violence against
black empowerment: Murphy and
blackface minstrelsy
“Black Gotham,”
black horse trainers: racial stereotyping in 1890s. See also Cooper, Albert; Jordan, Eli
black jockeys: achievements and success by the 1890s; in attendance at Murphy's funeral; collusion against by white jockeys; displacement and exclusion from American horse racing; Tony Hamilton; historical significance of; key figures of the 1870s; Murphy as a mentor to; Murphy's formulation of a new black masculinity; racial stereotyping in the 1890s; racial tensions and hostility against; working relationship with white jockeys
black leadership: advocacy of sexual abstinence; calls for a “Colored Men's Convention,”; Colored Fair Association of Lexington; community organization and; development of black education and; development of black racial destiny and the ideology of respectability; Frederick Douglass's 1881 defense of African Americans; in Frankfort; in Lexington; in Louisville; white violence against black freedom and
Black Manhattan (Johnson)
black masculinity: Murphy and
Blackmon, Douglas A.
black press: on Murphy's running of the 1890 match race at Sheepshead Bay; portrayal of Murphy as a paradigm and hero. See also Fortune, Timothy Thomas
black soldiers: in colonial forces; “colored regiments” formed at Camp Nelson; education at Camp Nelson; government conspiracy to remove from Virginia; history of the Twenty-Fifth Corps; issues of military service during the Civil War; in Lord Dunmore's War; pensions; recruitment and enlistment at Camp Nelson; in the Revolutionary War; symbolic significance of military service; white retaliation against the wives of during the Civil War
black suffrage
Blanchett, Charles E.
Bloch, Stuart F.
Blue, Rolley
Bluegrass region: African American population; history of slavery in; origins and development of horse racing and horse breeding in; westward migration into
Bluegrass Stakes
Blue Ribbon Stakes
Boone, Daniel
Boone, James
Boonesborou
gh community
Borries, Betty
Borries, Frank
Boswell, John
“bottoms,” 119
Bowen, G. W.
Boyd, Douglas A.
Boyd, J. S.
Boyle, Jeremiah Tilford
Bradley, Joe
Brady, John R.
Brand, John
Braxton, Frederick
Breckinridge, John Cabell
Breckinridge Stakes
Brewster, J. E.
Brighton Beach Race Track
Britton, Henry Harrison
Britton, Julia Ann
Britton, Laura Marshall
Britton, Mary
Britton, Tom
Brookdale Handicap
Brooklyn Cup
Brooklyn Handicap
Brooklyn Heights black community
Brooklyn Jockey Club Handicap
Brooks, Dora
Brown, Ed
Brown, S. S.
Brown, William Wells
Bruce, Benjamin
Bruce, Philip
Bruce, William W.
Bruce's Addition
Buford, Abe
Bullock, Jason
Burbridge, Stephen
Burdett, Clarissa
Burdett, Elijah
Burns, America. See Murphy, America
Burns, Jerry. See Skillman, Jerry
Burnside, Ambrose
Bush, John
Butler, Mathew
Butler, Thomas
Byrnes, Matt
Calumet Stakes
Campbell, Alexander
Campbell, Letitia
Camp Nelson: “colored regiments” formed at; conditions for black women and children; death of Jerry Skillman; expulsion of black women and children from; John Fee and the education of black soldiers; flood of African American men into; America Murphy and children leave for Lexington; naming of; origins and building of; personal transformation of African American men; Reconstruction-era violence against black men; recruitment and enlistment of African American men; troops sent to the Twenty-Fifth Corps; white loyalist refugees from Tennessee; Simon Williams and
Cardozo, Francis L.
Carr, Adam
Carr, Lucy. See Murphy, Lucy Carr
Carter, Daniel
Cassatt, A. J.
Cather, Willa
Chamberlain, John
Chambers, Dick
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