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THE CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA RACE RIOT (1917)

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The 1917 Race Riot in Chester, Pennsylvania started July 24, 1917 and lasted until July 30, 1917.  It is thought-out rare from many of the added race riots of the World War I and interwar period cause skilled were no recriminations of lawman brutality, and city agents and lawman created strenuous exertions for fear that the hanging of blacks rather than aiding in or avoiding the intensity.  Chester’s person representing organization, Wesley S. McDowell, was ridiculed in news service for acting policeman rioters evenly and taken afterlife from whites the one cherished to “run the Negroes in a group municipality.”

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CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA RACE RIOT (1919)

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In the course of the riot, Charleston was a city of 80,000, plurality of whom were black. On the dusk of May 10, 1919, a hopeless fellow supposedly advertised Roscoe Coleman, a white Navy marine, off the footway. A white crowd of marines and citizens gave chase to officer of the law, the one had out to a nearby building. A scuffle occured place with bricks, containers, and rocks, as far as four shots were discharged into the air by a angry father to scatter the crowd. Rumors directly started to flow of a boater “ammunition by a Negro.”

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The Tampa Bay Race Riot was individual of dozens of race riots that happen in U.S. metropolises all along the spring and summertime of 1967. The riot accepted place 'tween June 11 and June 14, 1967 subsequently nineteen-period-traditional Martin Chambers, the one was a suspect in the stealing of a camcorder store in Tampa, was cancelled apiece Tampa lawman. Chambers was visualized running from the lawman familiar Nebraska and Harrison Streets and was chance in the back by Police Officer James Calvert. He later withered. Following the occurrence, a riot happened ahead Central Avenue.

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The first riot begun on September 2nd, 1969, in return to rumors of a white marshal thrashing a black boy. That night, nearly 300 furious Camden dwellers assembled outside of Cooper University Hospital place a rally started. A gunman before shot into the crowd, murder 15-old age-traditional Rose McDonald and deputy Rand Chandler. The killer was never labeled, and for the next period, the riot persisted, precipitating greater demolition in the then lowering redlined region of Camden.

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Strikes and episodes of racial violence escalated as the majority of black workers grew and began working alongside non-black workers in the town's brickyards. Several strikes broke out at many brickyards in the spring of 1899, as non-black workers protested the hiring of more blacks. A black laborer was shot on June 17th at Peck's brickyard in adjacent Haverstraw, prompting newspapers to report an uptick in crime and racial injustice, including the use of knives and razors.

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On May 28th, 1917, violence erupted shortly after a city council meeting was scheduled. Furious white workers filed formal complaints with the mayor of East St. Louis over black migration. Following the conclusion of the conference, word spread throughout the city of an unsuccessful robbery of a white man by an armed black man. As a result of the news, white mobs arose and rampaged through downtown, lynching any African Americans they came across. Trolleys and streetcars were also stopped, with black passengers being dragged out and beaten on the sidewalks and streets. The crowds eventually dispersed after Illinois Governor Frank O. Lowden called in the National Guard to put an end to the bloodshed.

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On April 8, 1967, African American students from Tennessee State University rioted along Jefferson Street, resulting in numerous injuries, arrests, and considerable property damage. More officers were dispatched to the location, where they were confronted by students hurling rocks at them and passing cars on Jefferson Street. On April 8, fourteen individuals were hurt by the end of the day, including an eighteen-year-old guy who was shot in the leg. The rioting continued the next day at Tennessee A&I University, where Molotov cocktails were thrown through the windows of a liquor store, a gas station, and a barbershop, among other businesses.

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On August 30, 1919, an intruder broke into the home of Bertie Lindsey, a twenty-seven-year-old white lady, and murdered her as she was sleeping in her bed, sparking the riot. The lone witness was Lindsey's twenty-one-year-old cousin, Ora Smyth, who raced next door to the residence of a municipal police officer shortly after the invader left their Knoxville home, snatching a pocketbook on his way out. Andy White, one of the officers investigating the crime site, blamed Maurice Mays right away.

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Lemuel Walters, a local black man, was assaulted by two white men in early June after they accused him of making sexual advances toward their sister, a white woman from Kilgore. Walters was arrested and taken to the Gregg County jail, but on June 17, a gang arrived at the jail, and the sheriff handed Walters over to the mob, who shot and killed him. The story was published in the Chicago Defender on July 10 and enraged local whites, who accused Jones for writing it despite his denial. Jones was threatened and beaten by the same men who beat Walters across the street from the Gregg County courthouse later that day.

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The commission provide various estimates varying from 75 to 300 dead. The bloodbath began in the course of the Memorial Day weekend afterwards 19-year-old Dick Rowland, a Black shoe shiner, was blamed of assaulting Sarah Page, the 17-year-old white elevator manager in the nearby Drexel Building. He was arrested.

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