race riots

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• SOURCE: History.com
  9/14/2021
  

  The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre: How Fearmongering Led to Violence

  The 1906 Atlanta Race Riots, a series of mob attacks on Black residents and their homes and businesses, originated in fears of black political and economic power that were stoked by the local press with fabricated, sensational stories of Black criminality. 

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• SOURCE: KXII TV
  5/24/2021
  

  Historians Seek Approval for Memorial to 1930 Sherman, TX Courthouse Riot

  Local historians and activists want the town of Sherman, TX to place a historical marker at the site of a riot in which a Black man was killed and the courthouse burned down. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  12/17/19
  

  Tulsa Sites May Hold Mass Graves From ‘Black Wall Street’ Massacre

  When white mobs obliterated a thriving black district nearly 100 years ago, as many as 300 people died. Researchers have found clues to where some of those bodies may be.

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• 10/6/19
  

  Evil in the Delta: Elaine, Arkansas, 1919

  by Michael K. Honey

  One hundred years ago, in the “Red Summer” of 1919, rampaging whites killed hundreds and perhaps thousands of African Americans in pogroms and race riots.

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• SOURCE: History Channel
  July 26, 2019
  

  Red Summer of 1919: How Black WWI Vets Fought Back Against Racist Mobs

  When dozens of brutal race riots erupted across the U.S. in the wake of World War I and the Great Migration, black veterans stepped up to defend their communities against white violence.

• SOURCE: The Root
  8-5-13
  

  Henry Louis Gates Jr.: What Was the Tulsa Race Riot?

  Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.In last week's column on the Colfax Massacre of 1873, I closed with a reference to Barack Obama's July 19 discussion of Trayvon Martin and the "set of experiences and a history that doesn't go away." Speaking from the White House as president and as a man from within that veil of "experiences," he explained, "There are very few African Americans who haven't had the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off. That happens often."