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Giving Voice to Silenced Memories — Alison Smith, The Lawrence Juice
Napoleon Crews is a trial lawyer with a love of writing and a passion for history and a high impact biography that includes having been a cowboy, a rodeo team roper, a private investigator, a martial artist, and a bodyguard. He came to Kansas by way of being hired to help the Kickapoo Tribe establish their casino back in the day.
hope,” says Crews. One of Crews’ later books, based on actual events, recounts the story of 14-yearold Margaret “Sis” Vinegar and the lynching of three Black men following the murder of a white man in 1882. The nuts and bolts of the It’s his work as an author, though, that in every article. story are a middle-aged white man was inspired and informed projects that are now “My research started me off and took me having intercourse with a child and ended up strengthening our community. At this point down the road to Sam Jeans. He was a good dead. Two young Black men and the girl’s he has written twelve books and dramatic officer, and he was trusted by the white father were taken into custody. In the middle plays. people in town, trusted by all the people. of the night an organized mob stormed the In 2004, Crews’ Fireside Novel Volume 1, That’s really unusual for that time in history jail; the officers did their best to “protect city Number 1, The Man Who Tamed Lawrence that this man could rise to the level of town property” while the mob dragged the Black came out and his protagonist Sam Jeans was marshal, and they trusted him back in that men to the river bridge and threw them over. established as a quick-witted, dukes up, day.” The mob fended off other citizens who tried good-looking, all around upstanding and Crews says he “tried to imagine what it to intercede. Bitter divisions ripped the fabric compassionate guy who suddenly finds was like for Sam on a day to day, night to of our community. The girl was tried for himself on the Lawrence Police force. The night basis. That’s the way I like to write.” prostitution and sent to prison where she racial tension is raw and Jeans’ appointment In the late 1990’s, when Crews was contracted consumption and died. And then to the police department as the first Black getting started, primary source research was there was a long silence. officer is presented in as much a matter-ofpainstaking. Crews spent a lot of time at It’s shocking and jarring and bewildering fact way as it was in real life. libraries and museums reading old that this happened here. Appointing nearly lifelong Lawrence newspapers on microfilm, chasing one date at Lawrence has this larger than life, resident Samuel Jeans to the police force in a time, one lead at a time. Extracting inspirational persona imbued with noble 1893 was, in real life, a bit jarring for some in information was a long laborious process. triumph over adversity and of “outsiders” the community if the newspaper accounts are The idea behind his Fireside Novels was to doing heinous things to the community, yet it to be believed. At that time Lawrence was in introduce information in a historical fiction endures. An angry mob storming the jail and the enviable position of having multiple format. He wanted to keep the stories short hanging men over the side of the bridge at newspapers along with several unbridled enough to read in a sitting or two, with a fast- just doesn’t match. And yet it happened. The writers who could have died and come back paced plot-line and relatable characters. newspapers at the time couldn’t get enough as social media bullies for all their lack of Crews decided to produce the stories in of talking about it; details stretched to grace. In real life Jeans was ultimately quite installments. distortion. At the time there was lots of the media darling and week after week he’s “I wanted to get the information across but vitriol and finger pointing, hand-wringing, mentioned as resolving one crisis after in a way that didn’t burden you and that victim blaming, heated discussions backed by another, from breaking up fist fights and didn’t sugar coat it. Just comes right out and fists. A white man who spoke out against the gives you the message and you lynching was tarred and feathered. can go on with your life,” And then the next year, it nearly happened explained Crews. again. The 1883 incident involved a poor The characters are Black man and a wealthy young white girl compelling and there is instead of a wealthy white man with a poor something riveting about a story young Black girl. No one died but only set in your hometown. There’s because a contingency of mostly Black men an uncomfortable juxtaposition formed a ring around the jail so the mob that you’re reading a story set in could not break through. the past but happening right There is no making sense of these things. where you live. The plot-lines They are terrifying and disorienting. These feel like something you could are the kinds of things that require read in a paper tomorrow concentration and a willingness to experience morning. a range of unpleasant emotions. Among his historical fiction Crews understands. “There so much titles are “Eldridge House division. On one side, ‘We don’t want to hear Disappearances” featuring the about that,’ and on the other side people are Eldridge Hotel ghost, “Secret of screaming ‘We want to hear about that. It’s a The KU Catacombs” with a story that needs to be told.’” Two of the six Napoleon Crews’ Fireside Novels are mystery set in the KU steam Painful though it may be, to not know shown. Photo by Dave Sloan tunnels (that’s a thing!), and these stories would be even worse because dispatching rabid dogs to tracking thieves and “Last Lynching On Mount Oread” exploring there would be a blind spot, a gap in our counterfeiters. By 1895 he had proven so how racism touches the entire breadth of collective memory. It would be easy to say indispensable that he was unanimously society. elected by the City Commission to be our “People are going to read these and that Correction: In the last issue we City Marshal … and by then the newspapers will impact them in different ways, some misspelled Pantaleon Florez’s name. had stopped putting “colored” after his name good and some bad but mostly good, I would We apologize for that. We also want to
“That’s about someone else”, or “I’m not responsible, I wasn’t there”, “there’s nothing to be done about it now”. These all ultimately miss the mark. This is a collective memory, a community memory and the burden of remembering what happened is everyone’s to carry. Crews concludes, “Historical things and the way people were treated in the past are just as important today because it shows us the highway we come down. It helps us on this highway to see where we want to go in the future by looking back at the things that have happened. I also want it known that a lot of the accomplishments made by Black people couldn’t have been made without white people so it’s not all bad. It’s just people. We’re all just people.” (Editor’s Note: An exhibit about the lynchings called “Confronting the Past” opens there February 25th at Watkins Museum of History. It includes soil ceremonially collected in the fall of 2021 to honor each of the four Black community members who ultimately died as a result of mob rule. The story of Sis Vinegar and the lynchings is being made into a film called Then Three Were Taken. Executive Producer Barbara Higgins Dover says she used Crews’book as inspiration for the film. Many people have been involved in the production of the film which was shot where events actually took place on the banks of the Kaw. She says the film is expected to be out this June. After 138 years the grave site of the three victims of the lynching have been located in Oak Hill Cemetery. Douglas County Community Remembrance Project is also working towards getting an Equal Justice Initiative historical marker to permanently memorialize the lynching and these men this July. And lastly and rather ironically, this February 23rd marks the 118th anniversary of City Marshal Jeans’death. He was 46 when he died of consumption. His 86-year-old mother Jane Jeans lived with him at the time and she died of consumption four months later. They are also buried in a quiet corner of Oak Hill Cemetery. Napoleon Crews’books can be found at the Raven Bookstore, online at napoleoncrews.net, and the Lawrence Public Library.)
mention that he established and runs Maseualkualli Farms.
Confronting the Past: The Douglas County Community Remembrance Project
In 1882, a violent mob took George Robertson, Isaac King, and Pete Vinegar, arrested under accusations of murdering a white man, from the Douglas County jailhouse and hanged them. Thirteen-year-old Margaret “Sis” Vinegar, the survivor of an assault that prompted Robertson, King, and Pete Vinegar’s defense, was also arrested, and sent to Leavenworth penitentiary where she later died of illness. For years, the story of their deaths remained a quiet burden on the community, remembered among the Black citizens of Lawrence but largely forgotten in the telling of the city’s history. This February, the Watkins will partner with the Community Remembrance Project to create an exhibit on the 1882 lynching and remembrance efforts.
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Lawrence Women’s Network varies 11:45am-1pm
Lawrence Humane Society Adoptable Cats Popup Wild Man Vintage
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Resident Fellow Speaker Series: Suzanne Tanner KU Hall Center for the Humanities In-Person and Online
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“Fast Friday” Legislative Update (LWV) via Zoom Meeting ID: 850 8119 4355 Passcode: 100954 4pm
The Ethics of Antiracism with Eddie Glaude Kansas Union, KU Campus
10pm
Saturday Love with DJ Cruz Replay Lounge 10pm
Sunday, February 27
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Lawrence Restaurant Week
Multicultural Storytime LPL Online Event 3:30-4pm
LPR Adult Sunday Men’s Basketball Sports Pavilion Lawrence 6pm
KU Choirs: Chamber Choir & Treble Choir Swarthout Recital Hall 6pm
LPR Adult Volleyball Sunday Co-Ed Power Blue Sports Pavilion Lawrence #1B 6pm
LPR Adult Volleyball Sunday Co-Ed Power Red Sports Pavilion Lawrence#1A 6pm
4th Sunday Feature Kaw Valley Public House 7-10pm
Stargazing @ Astronomy Associates of Lawrence Monthly Club Meeting Baker University Wetlands 7-9pm
Double Deuce Podcast Drop 10pm
Monday, February 28
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JAAA Caregivers Support Group West Side Presbyterian Church
Various Restaurants 9am-11:30pm
The African American Church Dr. Shawn Leigh Alexander, Prof & Chair of African & African-American Studies and Director of the Langston Hughes Center Trinity Lutheran Church
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Lawrence Douglas County Housing Authority Board Monthly Meeting Edgewood Homes or Babcock Place 5:30pm Newborn Safety Online LMH via Zoom 6-7:30pm
10:30am AA Meeting
Lawrence Humane Society Adoptable Cats Popup Wild Man Vintage
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1st Annual Lawrence First Baptist Church Lawrence Wedding Expo 7:15-8:15am 5-9pm Venue 1235 Ad Astra Half Marathon 12-3pm Final Friday - New Works by Training Marty Olson and Maria Martin Drum Circle varies Meditation Cider Gallery 8-9:30am Unity of Lawrence 5-9pm 1:30-2:30pm Lawrence Restaurant Week Luck Plays On Charity Auction | Various Restaurants St Patrick’s Day Committee Mobile Blood Drive 9am-11:30pm Maceli’s Banquet Hall & Bishop Seabury Catering & Online Academy 5-10pm Lawrence Humane Society 2-6pm Adoptable Cats Popup SMART Recovery Groups Bleeding Kansas Wild Man Vintage Program Series 2022 LPL Online Event 5pm 12-6pm "Kansas Day" Faces of Garage Door Gallery Pool Tourney | St. Patrick's Day the Free State House 2111 Tennessee St Parade Committee 319 Elmore Lecompton 6-10pm Empire Bar & Billiards 2-3pm 12-3pm KU Wind Ensemble EMS (Extemporaneous Music Society) / Barthelman / Rock of Ages (Ozzy Cast) | The Lied Center of Graham Duo West Middle School Players Kansas Replay Lounge 2:30-4pm West Middle School 6pm
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Adult Children of Alcoholics Support Group First United Methodist Church - Lawrence 7-8:30pm
Lawrence St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee Meeting Murf’s Grille
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Student Recital Series: Luke Helker, Percussion Swarthout Recital Hall KU Jazz Combos 130 Murphy Hall
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Jayhawk Audubon Society - "Ferruginous Hawk nesting in western Kansas." via Zoom
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Faculty Recital Series: Forrest Pierce, composition Swarthout Recital Hall 7:30-9pm
Tuesday, March 1
• ASIATIC FLEET MEMORIAL DAY • INTERNATIONAL PANCAKE DAY • MARDI GRAS • NATIONAL DADGUM THAT'S GOOD DAY • NATIONAL FRUIT COMPOTE DAY • NATIONAL HORSE PROTECTION DAY • NATIONAL PEANUT BUTTER LOVER'S DAY • NATIONAL PIG DAY • NATIONAL SPORTSMANSHIP DAY • NATIONAL WEDDING PLANNING DAY • PEACE CORPS DAY • PLAN A SOLO VACATION DAY • PĄCZKI DAY • REFIRED NOT RETIRED DAY • SELF-INJURY AWARENESS DAY • SHARE A SMILE DAY • WORLD COMPLIMENT DAY Library Storytime LPL on Facebook
The Polish Wieniawski Philharmonic Orchestra Lied Center of Kansas 7:30pm
Wednesday, March 2
• ASH WEDNESDAY • INTERNATIONAL RESCUE CAT DAY • NATIONAL BANANA CREAM PIE DAY • OLD STUFF DAY • READ ACROSS AMERICA DAY • STOP BAD SERVICE DAY • WORLD TEEN MENTAL WELLNESS DAY Growing Lawrence Monthly Meeting Douglas County Extension Office 7-8am Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) Meeting Virtual 8:30am
Good Morning Indian Country Lawrence Arts Center Livestream
4-6pm
Spring Student Seminars - KU Dept Pharmacy and Toxicology Malott Hall, KU Campus USD 497 Boundary Advisory Committee Meeting / Livestream 110 McDonald Dr. 4-5:30pm
Kids’ Action Club LPL Online Event 4-5pm
Giants of the Senate: Peter Fenn, staff of Sen. Frank Church (D-ID) The Dole Institute of Politics 4pm
SMART Recovery Groups LPL Online & In-Person 5-6:30pm
Dr. Robert Mowry - Collected Stones: The Essence of the Chinese Landscape Spencer Museum of Art 5:15pm
The Value of English: Conversations with Alumni KU Department of English via Zoom 6-7pm
County Commission Board Meeting Douglas County Courthouse 6pm
9-10:30am
1 Million Cups Lawrence LPL Auditorium 9-10am Warm Hugs Quilting for the Lawrence Community Senior Resource Center for Douglas County
LPR Adult Volleyball Wednesday Co-Ed Power DH Blue Sports Pavilion Lawrence #1B 6pm
LPR Adult Volleyball Wednesday Co-Ed Power DH Red Sports Pavilion Lawrence #1A 6pm
10am-Noon
Parents As Teachers (PAT) Playgroup Kennedy Early Childhood Center 10-11am
Just Food Cruising Cupboard Stop Baldwin Library 10:30-11am
Small World Lawrence ESL Classes For International Women First Presbyterian Church
Afternoon Art Traditions Area, Kansas Union, Level 4
4-5:30pm 7:30pm
A Conversation on Race, Part V The Dole Institute of Politics
2-5pm
KU Jayhawks Baseball vs. Missouri State Hoglund Park 3pm
7pm
7:30-9pm
6:30-10:30pm
Teen Zone Expanded Lawrence Public Library
10:30-11:30am
KU Jayhawks Women’s Basketball vs. Texas Allen Fieldhouse 7pm
KU Tuba/Euphonium Consort & Brass Chamber Ensembles Swarthout Recital Hall 7:30-9pm
Books & Babies LPL via Facebook Live 10:30-11am
Pride Night w/ DJ ChanceRomance Replay Lounge
1-2:30pm
Bid Openings City Commission Room, City Hall 2-3pm MPO Technical Advisory Committee City Hall Riverfront, Ad Astra Room 2:30-3:30pm Community Resource Clinic Lawrence Public Library 3-5pm
Games for Teens LPL Online via Discord 4-6pm
Jackbox Games Lawrence Public Library
Scan the Code 4-6pm
Lawrence Cocktails Meetup Varies + Virtual 4:30-7:30pm
Brody Buster Archibowls 5:30-9pm
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Service Industry Night Replay Lounge 5-Close
USD 497 Equity Advisory Council Meeting Online 5-6:30pm
Lawrence City Commission Meeting City Commission Room, City Hall 5:45-7:45pm
LRP Adult Basketball Tuesday Men’s Sports Pavilion Lawrence The Wonder Years The Granada
6pm
6pm