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  New Georgia Encyclopedia: Atlanta Race Riot of 1906
During the Atlanta race riot that occurred September 22-24, 1906, white mobs killed dozens of fls, wounded scores of others, and inflicted considerable property damage.
Such conditions caused concern among elite whites, who feared the social intermingling of the races, and led to an expansion of Jim Crow segregation, particularly in the separation of white and fl neighborhoods and separate seating areas for public transportation.
The riot contributed to the passage of statewide prohibition and fl suffrage restriction by 1908.
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3033   (1552 words)

  
  Tulsa Race Riot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tulsa Race Riot, also known as the 1921 Race Riot, the Tulsa Race War, or the Greenwood Riot, was a large-scale civil disorder confined mainly to the racially segregated Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, USA in 1921.
During the 16 hours of rioting, over 800 people were admitted to local hospitals with injuries, an estimated 10,000 were left homeless, 35 city blocks composed of 1,256 residences were destroyed by fire, and $1.8 million (nearly $17 million after adjustment for inflation) in property damage.
The Tulsa Race Riot occurred in the racially and politically tense atmosphere of northeastern Oklahoma, some of which was a growing hotbed of anti-fl sentiment and Ku Klux Klan activity at that time.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tulsa_Race_Riot   (3321 words)

  
 Race riot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A race riot or racial riot is an outbreak of violent civil unrest in which race is a key factor.
Such riots often reflect anger among racial minority groups that are regarded as socio-economically deprived, and often such anger is directed at law enforcement agencies who are perceived to unfairly target these racial groups.
Racial profiling, police brutality, institutional racism, urban renewal, and racial identity politics are often cited as causes of these riots, although many have argued that these riots tend not to follow any sort of political logic but rather represent spontaneous violent outbursts.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Race_riot   (229 words)

  
 Jazz Age Chicago -- Chicago Race Riot of 1919
The riot began on July 27, after an African-American youth named Eugene Williams, while swimming with friends in Lake Michigan near 29th Street, strayed into an area informally reserved for the exclusive use of white bathers.
Photograph: "Chicago race riot, five policemen and one soldier with rifle standing on street corner," 1919 [Library of Congress]
Source: Chicago Commission on Race Relations, The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1922), pgs.
chicago.urban-history.org /scrapbks/raceriot/raceriot.htm   (897 words)

  
 Race riot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A race riot is any riot which occurs due to animosity or tensions between or among members of different races.
Riots also can be sparked by an isolated incident, particularly if it is perceived to be one of a serise of abuses or injustices that have occurred over time without redress.
A number of riots occurred in the United States during the 20th century, including the Atlanta Riots (1906), the Omaha and Chicago Riots (1919), the Tulsa Riots (1921), two riots in Detroit (1943 and 1967), as well as riots in Watts (1965), Newark (1967), York (1969), and Los Angeles (1992).
www.eaststlouis.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Race_riot   (187 words)

  
 Freedmen's Bureau Report of the 1866 Memphis, Tennessee Riot
The remote cause of the riot as it appears to us is a bitterness of feeling which has always existed between the low whites and fls, both of whom have long advanced rival claims for superiority, both being as degraded as human beings can possibly be.
General Runkle was waited upon every hour in the day during the riot, by colored men who begged of him protection for themselves and families, and he, an officer of the Army detailed as Agent of the Freedmen's Bureau was suffered the humiliation of acknowledging his utter inability to protect them in any respect.
From the present disturbed condition of the freedmen in the districts where the riot occurred it is impossible to determine the exact number of Negroes killed and wounded.
freedmensbureau.com /tennessee/outrages/memphisriot.htm   (2042 words)

  
 Tulsa Race Riot Of 1921 -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Alfred L Brophy, Reconstructing the dreamland: the Tulsa race riot of 1921: race, reparations and reconciliation...
Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation...
Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and.
tulsa.fabcc.com /index.php?k=Tulsa-Race-Riot-of-1921   (1403 words)

  
 The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
The year 1919 was particularly noted for the large number of riots in the urban areas of the North where returning white veterans of WWI competed with Southern Blacks for jobs during the post-war depression.
However, the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 was perhaps the costliest incident of racial violence in American history.
In 1997, The Tulsa Race Riot Commission was formed to investigate the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.
www.mc.cc.md.us /Departments/hpolscrv/VdeLaOliva.html   (775 words)

  
 Race Riots
Aspiring African American professionals seeking to obtain improved housing beyond the increasingly overcrowded South Side ghetto, whether in private residences or in the new public housing developments constructed by the Chicago Housing Authority, were frequently greeted by attempted arsons, bombings, and angry white mobs often numbering into the thousands.
The 1951 Cicero riot, in particular, lasting several nights and involving roughly two to five thousand white protesters, attracted worldwide condemnation.
Since the mid-1960s, the nature of race riots in Chicago (as elsewhere) has significantly shifted.
www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/1032.html   (591 words)

  
 tulsa race riot 1
To understand the riot, one cannot begin with the first shot that was fired, nor even with the seemingly insignificant chain of events that led to the first signs of real trouble.
Race relations was not the only major societal issue that weighed heavily on the minds of many Tulsans during the months that led up to the riot.
In the year preceding the riot, two Tulsa police officers had been killed on duty, while less than six weeks before the riot, Tulsa police officers were involved in a spectacular shoot-out with armed bandits at an east side rooming house.
www.ipoaa.com /tulsa_race_riot_story1.htm   (11771 words)

  
 Race Riot
The saddest part of the sorry tale is that this carnage is the result of one mountain bike race.
But before you start packing the car for next weekend's race, in fact before you head off to ride anywhere that's not your own local patch, pause for a moment and think about those trails that are dearer to you than any others.
But fire roads are boring, wars happen and anyone with an ounce of mud in their blood can't resist the golden singletrack carrot when it dangles in front of their muddy noses.
www.bikereader.com /contributors/Hopkins/raceriot.html   (890 words)

  
 tulsa race riot
The end result, "The Tulsa Race Riot," was, all told, an exceptional piece of work, Gill worked diligently to uncover the causes of the riot, and to trace its path of violence and destruction, by scouring old newspaper and magazine articles, Red Cross records, and government documents.
Riot survivors, participants, and observers, to be certain, still told stories of their experiences to family and friends.
A young girl at the time of the riot, Avery had been haunted by her memories of the smoke and flames rising up over the African American district, and by the two trucks carrying the bodies of riot victims that had passed in front of her home on East 8th Street.
www.ipoaa.com /tulsa_race_riot_overview.htm   (7702 words)

  
 CPL Chicago 1919 Race Riots
By this time rioting had already erupted there precipitated by vocal and physical demonstrations against a group of fls who wanted to use the beach in defiance of its tacit designation as a "white" beach.
The rioting escalated when a white police officer refused to arrest the white man, by now identified as the perpetrator of the separate incident near 26th Street.
Coroner's Report of 1919 are followed by his recommendations to deal with the festering social and economic conditions that were the underlying factors of the riots.
www.chipublib.org /004chicago/disasters/riots_race.html   (381 words)

  
 The summer of ’43 (Metro Times Detroit)
The 1943 race riot is not as well remembered as the city’s 1967 tumult, perhaps because it doesn’t fit smoothly with the mythology we’ve created about our past.
Detroit’s race riot was not the nation’s sole urban conflict of 1943, but it was the largest and last.
Nazi-controlled Vichy radio asserted that the riot was symptomatic of “the internal disorganization of a country torn by social injustice, race hatreds, regional disputes, the violence of an irritated proletariat, and the gangsterism of capitalistic police.”
www.metrotimes.com /editorial/story.asp?id=5041   (4225 words)

  
 NNN Poll #6 * What is the best solution for racial problems?
Two Whites Charged in 1969 Pennsylvania Black Race Riot Slaying Pennsylvania National Guradsmen and State Police maintained a tight vigil around York, Pa., early the night of July 22,1969 after the city was wracked by six days of sporadic sniper fire.
1966 Hough and Glenville Racial Riots It is customary to attribute the Hough riot to the fact that on Monday night July 18, 1966, a Hough bar owner refused to serve a fl patron and the dispute set off the riot.
Race riot at the University of Mississippi in 1962
www.newnation.org /NNN-poll.html   (1633 words)

  
 The Tulsa Reparations Coalition
The city of Tulsa, Oklahoma is haunted by a past that remains unresolved - The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.
TRC was organized on April 7, 2001 in response to the Race Riot Report and its sound reparations recommendations.
U.S. Senior District Judge James Ellison then dismissed the Tulsa race riot lawsuit citing statute of limitations.
www.tulsareparations.org   (625 words)

  
 The Detroit Riots of 1967: Events
The Detroit Riot of 1967 began when police vice squad officers executed a raid on an after hours drinking club or “blind pig” in a predominantly fl neighborhoods located at Twelfth Street and Clairmount Avenue.
The origins of urban unrest in Detroit were rooted in a multitude of political, economic, and social factors including police abuse, lack of affordable housing, urban renewal projects, economic inequality, fl militancy, and rapid demographic change.
The 21,376 persons per square mile in the area in 1960 were almost double the city’s average” (Fine 1989:4) This neighborhood would serve as the epicenter of the 1967 riot.
www.67riots.rutgers.edu /d_index.htm   (1567 words)

  
 CNN - Tulsa panel seeks truth from 1921 race riot - August 3, 1999
The Tulsa Race Riot Commission, formed two years ago to determine exactly what happened, will consider next week the controversial issue of what, if any, reparations should be paid to the known survivors of the riot, a group of less than 100 that includes Smith, now 92, and Booker, 86.
Another riot survivor, Ruth Avery, who was 7 at the time, gives an account matched by others who told of bombs dropped from small airplanes passing overhead.
The Tulsa commission is scheduled to release its final report on the riot in January.
www.cnn.com /US/9908/03/tulsa.riots.probe   (878 words)

  
 Race Riot
A race riot is any riot which occurs due to real or perceived inequality or oppression between members of different...
The panel, the Tulsa Race Riot Commission, was created by the state legislature in 1997 to investigate violence that...
In the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, police flew airplanes and dropped nitroglycerin and dynamite on 600...
www.the-gsba.org /race-riot.html   (512 words)

  
 Washington Race Riot of 1919
The Washington riot was one of more than 20 that took place that summer.
Sociologist Arthur Waskow, who interviewed riot survivors in the 1960s, said the experience gave them a new self-respect and "a readiness to face white society as equals.
The Washington riot demonstrated that neither the silent mass of 'alley Negroes' nor the articulate leaders of the Negro community could be counted on to knuckle under."
www.blackwallstreet.freeservers.com /washington_race_riot_of_1919.htm   (1423 words)

  
 Democracy Betrayed | Centennial of Racial Violence in Wilmington: Historians Say It Was No "Riot"
Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy, a collection of essays on the tragedy edited by David S. Cecelski and Timothy B. Tyson with a foreword by John Hope Franklin, marks the centennial of the Wilmington race riot.
The editors comment that they hesitated to refer to the racial violence in Wilmington as a "riot" in the subtitle of the book, but they reluctantly settled on the term "race riot" to ensure that it would be understood.
The "riot" on November 10, 1898 proved to be the culmination of this movement and the most notorious episode of the campaign.
www.ibiblio.org /uncpress/features/cecelski/pressrel.html   (900 words)

  
 Atlanta 1906: A Race Riot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
But in the fall of 1906, the city was convulsed by a deadly race riot - one of the worst of the Jim Crow era.
This is the story of how Atlanta descended into four days of mob violence - an event that stymied race relations for the next fifty years.
Atlanta 1906: A Race Riot is an online companion to the PBS series The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, which premieres on WPBA Thursday, October 3 at 9 p.m.
www.bookmarkmedia.com /Atlanta1906/site   (108 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: LONGVIEW RACE RIOT OF 1919
The Longview Race Riot occurred during the Red Summer, as May to October of 1919 has been called.
Racial tension was especially high immediately before the riot because two locally prominent fl leaders, Samuel L. Jones and Dr. Calvin P. Davis, had urged fl farmers to avoid local white cotton brokers and sell directly to buyers in Galveston.
William Tuttle, "Violence in a `Heathen' Land: the Longview Race Riot of 1919," Phylon 33 (1972).
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/LL/jcl2.html   (789 words)

  
 Tulsa Race Riot of 1921   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Let me just start by saying here that there is no doubt that on 31 May -1 June 1921, a race riot took place in Tulsa that left an unknown number of people dead, and many more than even the highest estimates of those killed homeless, humiliated and horribly in debt.
"The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921" by I. Marc Carlson (1989)
The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 by I.
www.personal.utulsa.edu /~marc-carlson/riot/raceriot.html   (444 words)

  
 Tulsa City-County Library - Collections & Services - African-American Resource Center - Tulsa Race Riot - ...
Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.
Hower, Robert N. Race Riot and the American Red Cross: Angels of Mercy.
Race Riot 1921: Events of the Tulsa Disaster.
www.tulsalibrary.org /aarc/Riot/bibliography.htm   (308 words)

  
 The 1943 Detroit race riots
Blacks who believed they were heading to a promised land found a northern bigotry every bit as pervasive and virulent as what they thought they had left behind in the deep south.
Although the Sojourner Truth riots resulted in no fatalities, the trouble was a warning of what was to come.
Mayor Jeffries praised the police and said he was "rapidly losing my patience with those Negro leaders who insist that their people do not and will not trust policemen." The mayor asked the Rev. White to search for 200 qualified Negroes to join the police force.
info.detnews.com /history/story/index.cfm?id=185&category=events   (2265 words)

  
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An indirect cause of the riot was the "agitation among the negroes of the social equality."
One might think that the riot was the indirect cause of the loss; the fire was set during the riot, in an attempt to end it.
It wanted to show that the riot was the result of fl Tulsans and that the destruction was the result of a rioting by mobs, not action coordinated by Tulsa officials.
www.law.ua.edu /staff/bio/abrophy/redfearncomm.html   (1920 words)

  
 Tulsa Historical Society | Learn
In the wake of the violence, 35 city blocks lay in charred ruins, over 800 people were treated for injuries and estimated reports of deaths began at 36*.
* Recently, the Tulsa Race Riot Commission released a report indicating that historians now believe close to 300 people died in the riot.
Researchers are encouraged to call for an appointment to view the materials, which have been utilized by scholars and researchers, authors, and media from around the world.
www.tulsahistory.org /learn/riot.htm   (343 words)

  
 Race Riot & Marches
When Blacks where rioting in the US cities of New Orleans, Los Angles, and Toledo they had no regard for property, and either stole or damaged everything they touched.
Since the Toledo, Ohio Riots, Paris has erupted into a week straight of race rioting which western media is doing little to cover.
This speech of pure genocide of the white race, and hate that is unmatched by anyone else.
finalsolution88.com /raceriots.htm   (694 words)

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