Kentucky County: early exploration of and migration into; expansion of slavery into; slaves and slavery in the development of
Kentucky Derby: 1877 running; 1879 running; 1884 running; 1885 running; 1886 running; 1890 running; 1891 running; 1893 running; Dudley Allen and; Billy Donohue and; first running of; growing importance of in the 1880s
Kentucky General Assembly
Kentucky Handicap
Kentucky Horse Association
Kentucky Live Stock Record
Kentucky Oaks
Kentucky State Convention of Colored Baptists
Kenwood Stakes
King, Henry
Kinkead, George B.
Kinkeadtown
Kirkman Stakes
Knickerbocker Handicap
Knighten, Gracie
Ku Klux Klan
labor: capital versus; domestic; on horse farms; immigrant; owning one's; pro-white; racial tensions in the 1880s; slave; South's traditional; wages
Ladies Hall
Ladies Stakes
Lakeland, William “Billy,”
Land Act of 1779 (Virginia)
Landeman, W. H.
Langston, John Mercer
Latimer, Lewis Howard
Latonia Derby
Latonia Jockey Club: Murphy as an owner-trainer in 1894; Murphy's 1883 racing season; Murphy's 1884 racing season; Murphy's 1885 racing season; Murphy's 1890 racing season; Murphy's 1891 racing season; Murphy's 1893 racing season
Lawrence, J. G. K.
Lazareu, Michael
Leach, Patsy
leasing agreements
Lee, Isaac
Lee, Jerry
Lester, Julius
Lewis, Isaac
Lewis, Capt. Meriwether
Lewis, Oliver
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Lexington, KY: African American population; aurora borealis of 1870; biographical overview of Isaac's parents; black businesses and business leaders; black churches; black community in the 1870s; black community in the 1880s; black education during the Reconstruction era; black Freemasonry; black institutions during the Reconstruction era; black leadership; black residential areas; Cheapside market; Colored Fair Association; Democratic Party in; development of black racial destiny and the ideology of respectability; as a “distinctly Southern city,”; Exodusters and the Nicodemus Colony; hemp industry; John Wesley Hunt and; Isaac and Lucy move to; Isaac and Lucy's married life in; Isaac and Lucy's Third Street mansion; Isaac's childhood in; Isaac's death, funeral, and burial; Isaac's grave site controversy; Isaac's reburial at Man o' War Park and; Isaac's recuperation following the poisoning incident at Monmouth Park; Kentucky Association Race Course (see Kentucky Association Race Course); America Murphy's arrival and establishment in; America Murphy's decision to leave Camp Nelson for; America Murphy's purchase of property; America Murphy's residences, employment, and living arrangements; National Savings Bank and Trust Company; origins and evolution of horse racing and horse breeding in; prostitution in; rise of; settlement of; slavery in the development of; violence against black freedom
Lexington, battle of
Lexington and Ohio Railroad
Lexington Choral Club
Lexington Colored School Committee
Lexington Herald
Lexington Leader
Lexington School Committee
Lincoln, Abraham: antebellum views of in Kentucky; assassination of; authorization of the National Savings and Bank Trust Company; Emancipation Proclamation; “House Divided” speech; issue of slavery in the debates with Douglas; Twenty-Fifth Corps and; views of slavery during the Civil War
Lincoln Lodge Masons (Lexington)
Littlefield, C.
Littlefield, Fred
Live Stock Record
Lord Dunmore's War
Lorillard, George
Lorillard, Pierre
Lorillard Stakes
Lott, Eric
Loud, J. W.
Louisiana Native Guard
Louisiana Territory
Louisville, KY: black churches; black population and community in the Reconstruction era; Colored Education Convention; development of the horse racing industry and
Louisville Cup
Louisville Jockey Club: allows Eli Jordan to register Fleetwood's horses; founding of; Meta Hunt-Reynolds and; inaugural races of 1875; Murphy as an owner-trainer in 1894; Murphy's 1876 racing season; Murphy's 1877 racing season; Murphy's 1878 racing season; Murphy's 1879 racing season; Murphy's 1883 racing season; Murphy's 1884 racing season; Murphy's 1885 racing season; Murphy's 1886 racing season; Murphy's 1887 racing season; Murphy's 1890 racing season; Murphy's 1891 racing season; Murphy's 1893 racing season; notions of Southern identity and; pari-mutuel betting and. See also Kentucky Derby
Louisville Ladies Stakes
Loyalists, black
Luckett, William
lynchings
Lynn, Henry
Mack, Henry
Manhattan black community
Man o' War Park
Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad
marriage(s): African American sensibilities toward; American immigration policy and; between enslaved black women and white men; “jumped a broom” marriage custom; between slaves
Marrs, Elijah
Marrs, Henry
Marshall, Thomas F.
Maryland Association meeting
Masons. See Freemasonry
Maxwell, Cicero
Maxwell, John
McCabe, Frank
McClain, Si
McDaniels, David
McDowell, T. C.
McGavock, W. C.
McGrath, Henry Price
McGrath Stakes
McIntyre, D.
McKee, J. R.
McLaughlin, James (Jimmy): 1878 racing season; 1881 racing season; 1882 racing season; 1885 racing season; 1888 Brooklyn Cup race; 1891 racing season; William Daly and; retirement from racing; winning percentage
McLewee, F. C.
McLewee-Ehret-Allen confederation
M. E. Clark and Company
Megibben, J. K.
Megibben, T. J.
Melbourne Stud Stakes
Memphis Jockey Club
Merchants' Stakes
Messley, Annie L.
Metcalf, J.
milk punch
Miller, Joseph
Miller, Tipton
Milliken's Bend
minstrelsy
missionaries
Missouri Compromise of 1821
Missouri Supreme Court
Mitchell, Belle
Mitchell, Charles
Moet and Chandon Champagne Stakes
Monmouth Handicap
Monmouth Park: founding of; Murphy rides in the 1889 Lorillard Stakes; Murphy's 1885 racing season; Murphy's 1887 racing season; Murphy's 1890 racing season; Murphy's poisoning incident, aftermath and recovery
Monroe, James
Morgan, C. C.
Morgan, Henrietta Hunt
Morgan, John Hunt
Mormonism
Morris, Green B.
Morris, Horace
Morris Park
Morrissey, John
Morton, Henry
mulatto children: determination of racial status; sale and treatment as slaves; slavery in Kentucky and
mulatto women: in the slave population
Murphy, America: applies for Jerry Skillman's pension; apprentices Isaac to James Williams; arrival and establishment in Lexington; biographical overview; birth and raising of Isaac in the context of slavery; at Camp Nelson; daughter to Anne; death of daughter in Lexington; death of Jerry Skillman and; departure from Camp Nelson to Lexington; Freedmen's Bank and; life in Lexington's black community; purchase of property in Lexington; residences, employment, and living arrangements in Lexington; tuberculosis and the death of
Murphy, Green
Murphy, Isaac Burns: 1876 racing season; 1877 racing season; 1878 racing season;
1879 racing season; 1880 racing season; 1881 racing season; 1882 racing season; 1883 racing season; 1885 Chicago Tribune interview; 1885 racing season; 1886 racing season; 1887 racing season; 1888 racing season; 1889 racing season; 1890 racing season; 1891 racing season; 1892 racing season; 1893 racing season; 1894 racing season; 1895 racing season; accused of drinking in 1890; achievements and legacy of; advertises services as professional jockey in 1883; Dudley Allen and; apprenticed to the Williams and Owings stables; background, birth, and childhood in the context of slavery; birthday celebration in 1891; black empowerment and; black masculinity and; the black press and; Benjamin Bruce's 1888 defense of; Camp Nelson and; career challenges in 1893; changes surname from Burns to Murphy; changing race relations in the 1880s and; character, integrity, and reputation of; Chicago and; Chicago Horseman article in 1890; childhood in Lexington; compared to Fred Archer; Ed Corrigan and; criticisms of; death, funeral, and burial; description of the 1879 Travers Stakes; education of; fame and success; fee per mount; first professional race; Freemasonry and; as a gentleman jockey; grandparents; grave site controversy; as guardian of James Frazer; historical context and significance of; inducted into the National Museum of Racing's Hall of Fame; influence of Eli Jordan on; joins Fleetwood Stock Farm; judgment of a horse's pace; Kentucky's separate coach bill and; marriage to Lucy Carr; married life with Lucy; McLewee-Ehret-Allen confederation and; Monmouth Park poisoning incident, aftermath and recovery; move from Frankfort to Lexington; the Negro question and; as owner-trainer; as a paradigm and hero to African Americans; parents (see also Murphy, America; Skillman, Jerry); personal life away from the track; race-based attacks on the character and career of; racing colors; reburial at Man o' War Park; reception by Matt Byrnes in 1890; reception by the Chicago black community in 1886; reception for Anthony Hamilton in 1891; reflections on jockeying; relationship with J. W. Hunt-Reynolds; relationship with Meta Hunt-Reynolds; relationship with owners; response of white owners to; retirement from racing; salaries from E. J. Baldwin; stage production of The Derby Winner and; suspension from racing in 1878; tenth marriage anniversary; Third Street mansion in Lexington; training to be a jockey; trips to Baldwin's Santa Anita farm; as a tutor and mentor to other jockeys; weight issue and weight-loss routines; Ansel Williamson and; will of; winning percentages; the Wrightsons and
Murphy, J. C.
Murphy, Jeremiah
Murphy, Lucy Carr: 1886 trip to Baldwin's Santa Anita farm; background and upbringing in Frankfort; black womanhood and; Chicago Tribune's description of; Isaac first meets; Isaac's death, funeral, and burial; later years and death of; marriage to Isaac; married life with Isaac; middle-class etiquette and; move from Frankfort to Lexington; Order of the Eastern Stars and; photograph of; physical appearance; tenth marriage anniversary
Murray, John (Lord Dunmore)
Nashville, TN
Nashville Blood Horse Association Meeting
Nashville Jockey Club
National Afro-American League
National Jockey Club
National Museum of Racing's Hall of Fame
National Savings Bank and Trust Company
Native Americans: African American men acting in colonial defenses against; ecoterrorism employed against; the French and Indian War; westward expansion of colonial America and
Negro Fund
Negro spirituals
Nelson, William “Bull,”
neo-white movement of the 1880s
Netherland Stables
Newcomb, H. Victor
Newmarket (England)
New Orleans slave market
New South
New York Age
New York City: Brooklyn Heights black community; draft riots of 1863; Manhattan black community
New York Freeman
New York Jockey Club
Nicodemus Colony
night riders. See also Ku Klux Klan
Niles, W. J.
Ninety-Second Illinois Regiment
Noble, T. K.
Northrup, Solomon
North Star newspaper
Nursery Stakes
octoroons
Ogilvie, Will
Ohio Land Company of Virginia
Oldham, Samuel
Omnibus Stakes
115th Colored Infantry Regiment
114th Colored Infantry Regiment
116th Colored Infantry Regiment
Order of the Eastern Stars
Osborne, Fanny
Osborne, Susan
Overton, Monk
Owens, R. H.
Owings, Richard. See also Williams and Owings Farms
Page Act of 1875
Paine, Thomas
Painter, Nell Irvin
pari-mutuel betting
Parker, William
pass system
patriotism
Patterson, Col. Robert
Pegler-Gordon, Anna
Peirce, Charles S.
pensions
Pepper, James E.
Perkins, James “Soup,”
Perry, Abraham
Perry, Clara
Perry, George
Petersburg, battle of
Peterson, Carla L.
Pettit, B. F.
Phillips, J. H.
Phoenix Hotel Stakes
Phoenix Stables
Phoenix Stakes
photo finish
Pleasant Green Baptist Church (Lexington)
Plessy v. Ferguson
poisoning incident at Monmouth Park: as an attempt to kill Murphy; events of; gamblers and; investigation into; Murphy's illness and recovery; Murphy's suspension by the Executive Committee; press reports of and response to; reaction of whites to
polygamy
Porter and Jackson Undertakers
Prall, John A.
Pralltown
Preston, William
prostitution
Pulsifer, David
Purdy, John
Queen City Association meeting
Queen City Jockey Club
Quills, Harry
racing colors: of Murphy. See also Murphy, Isaac
racism: displacement and exclusion of black jockeys from American horse racing; formalization of segregation; immigrants and immigration policy of the 1880s; jockey clubs and; race relations in the 1870s; race relations in the 1880s; race relations in the 1890s
railroads: Anti-Separate Coach State Convention and the Joint Railroad Committee; Chesapeake and Ohio; constructing; Denver and Rio Grande; destruction during Civil War; farmers and poor whites; Lexington & Ohio; Marietta and Cincinnati 201; railroad companies; Santa Fe; Transcontinental Railroad; transportation
Reconstruction era: black freedom and; black institutions in Lexington; black leadership and community organization; black population and community in Louisville; development of black education; development of black racial destiny and the ideology of respectability in Lexington; end of; influence of freedmen on the horse industry; need of freedmen for direction and leadership; race relations during; role and development of the black church in Kentucky and Lexington; Thirteenth Amendment and; thwarted efforts of missionaries and teachers; violence against African Americans. See also freedmen
Redmond, Thomas “Texas Tom,”
Reed, Annette Gordon
Reed, Christopher Robert
regulators
Reiss, Steven
religion: black freedom and. See also black church
Remond, Charles Lenox
Remond, Sarah Parker
Republican Club
Republican Party
reversion concept
Revolutionary War
Reynolds, William Bell
Rice, George
Richards, Alexander Keene
Riggs, Louis
Ripple Stakes
Robinson, Ferdinand
Robinson, J. F.
Rodgers, J. W.
Rogers, John A. R.
“runaways,”
Run
kle, Benjamin
Runnymeade Stakes
Russell, Henry
Russell, William
Rye, G. M.
Sacks, Marcy
Saltville, battle of
Salvator Club
Samuel, Henry
Samuels, David
Sandford, John
Sanford Stakes
Santa Anita farm: Murphy's trips to. See also Baldwin, Elias Jackson “Lucky”
Saratoga Racing Association for the Improvement of the Breed
Saratoga Springs, NY: commercialization of horse racing and; Grand Union Pleasure Club; history of horse racing in; Murphy's 1877 racing season; Murphy's 1879 racing season; Murphy's 1883 racing season; Murphy's 1884 racing season; Murphy's 1885 racing season; Murphy's 1887 racing season; postbellum growth of the black population in
Saxton School
Scofield, Abisha
Scott, Dred
Scott, James H.
Scott, Robert
Scroggan brothers
Scroggins, Henry
Scroggins, Theodorcia
Scully, W. O.
Sears, J. S.
Second Continental Congress
Sedgwick, Thomas D.
segregation: following the 1876 presidential election; formalization of; Plessy v. Ferguson and
Select Stakes
Sellers, J. B.
“Selling Sweepstakes Race,”
“separate but equal” policy
separate coach bill (Kentucky)
Seward, William Henry
sexual abstinence
sexual relationships: African American sensibilities toward; between blacks and whites
sex work: jockey clubs and
Shauer, Charlie
Sheepshead Bay race track
Simms, Willie
Singleton, Benjamin “Pap,”
Skillman, Charles
Skillman, Jerry: biographical overview; at Camp Nelson; death of; enlistment and service during the Civil War; possibility of not being Murphy's father
Skillman, John Whitney
Slavery by Another Name (Blackmon)
slaves/slavery: abuse; auctions and markets; in the Bluegrass region; breeding in Kentucky; children; conscription of slaves; as the context of Murphy's background, birth, and childhood; control of black lives by the white elite; cotton industry and the domestic slave trade; discussed in the Continental Congresses; domestic; Emancipation Proclamation and; fugitive slave narratives; hemp industry and; “impressment” in the building of Camp Nelson; infanticide and; leasing agreements between owners; in Lord Dunmore's War; the origins of the Civil War and; pass system; preachers; proponents views of slaves; rebellions/uprisings; resistance against; role in the development of Kentucky; role in the development of Lexington; role in the development of the horse racing industry; role in westward exploration and expansion; sexual relationships between blacks and whites; significance of naming children; slaveholders' views of; slave hunters; slave marriages; spiritual freedom and;the U.S. Constitution and; value of slave children to slave owners; violence against slaves; westward expansion into Kentucky
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