https://padlet.com/bloomrei000/99ooob6slh3fhvfo en-us 2023-01-23 15:36:46 UTC 2026-02-03 14:31:03 UTC hello@padlet.com bloomrei000 https://padlet.com/bloomrei000/99ooob6slh3fhvfo/wish/2453449610 On July 27, 1919, a 17-year-old African American boy named Eugene Williams drowned when he crossed the unofficial border between the city's "black" and "white" beaches. Some white men saw him cross the border and started throwing stones at him and drowned him. White cops refused to arrest the white men who had several eyewitnesses point at them. This caused mobs of black and white to surround the stockyard. A total of 28 dead, 500 more injured, and 1000 African American families left homeless.]]> 2023-01-23 15:50:12 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomrei000/99ooob6slh3fhvfo/wish/2453449610 bloomrei000 https://padlet.com/bloomrei000/99ooob6slh3fhvfo/wish/2453482100 A black man allegedly assaulted a white man's wife so the white man and hundreds of soldiers, sailors, and marines mob on Charles Malls, the black man. They try to break into his house, but his neighbors rally to defend him. The several hundred member police department refuses to intervene, so the next day, African Americans face brutal beatings. By that night, there were no reported casualties, but dozens were hospitalized. When the whites said that tomorrow will be worse than the previous 2 days, black Washingtonians requested official protection from the government, but they refused. This resulted in 4-38 deaths and over 100 injuries.]]> 2023-01-23 16:10:46 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomrei000/99ooob6slh3fhvfo/wish/2453482100 bloomrei000 https://padlet.com/bloomrei000/99ooob6slh3fhvfo/wish/2456269877 A black man charged with the murder of a white woman. The public got mad and broke in the jail in an attempt to hunt the black man, Maurice Mays. The white mob broke into hardware stores to arm themselves and then headed to the black section of town. The National Guard came to the scene and shooting broke out. The riot left hundreds wounded and seven dead. The riot prompted many African Americans to flee the city.]]> 2023-01-25 15:04:06 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomrei000/99ooob6slh3fhvfo/wish/2456269877 bloomrei000 https://padlet.com/bloomrei000/99ooob6slh3fhvfo/wish/2456292493 Racial tensions in the city were already high because recently, 2 prominent black leaders, Samuel L. Jones and Dr. Calvin P. Davis, had urged Black farmers to avoid local White cotton brokers and sell directly to buyers in Galveston. A newspaper made way to the city that talks about the death of a black man in Longview. The article reported that he and an unnamed woman from Kilgore, Texas were in love and would be married if they were in the north. Jones, the author of the article was found and beaten by the woman's brothers. The finding out about the beating had inflamed tempers of both races. One night, a group of about 15 angry white men went to Jones and when fired upon, they fired back. White men set fire to several black homes and a Black dance hall which they believed was used to store ammo.]]> 2023-01-25 15:17:13 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomrei000/99ooob6slh3fhvfo/wish/2456292493 bloomrei000 https://padlet.com/bloomrei000/99ooob6slh3fhvfo/wish/2456322138 A massacre which killed hundreds of African Americans and 5 whites. It was a shooting incident that occurred at a meeting which escalated into mob violence. Tensions grew from the sharecroppers wanting increased payments on their crops from white plantation owners who dominated the area during the Jim Crow era. The aftermath of the massacre seemed to be a "hunt". " H. F. Smiddy, one of the white witnesses to the massacre, swore in an eye-witness account in 1921 that “several hundred of them… began to hunt negroes and shotting [sic] them as they came to them.”"]]> 2023-01-25 15:29:07 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomrei000/99ooob6slh3fhvfo/wish/2456322138 bloomrei000 https://padlet.com/bloomrei000/99ooob6slh3fhvfo/wish/2456332693 On Sunday, September 28, 1919, a white lynch mob formed after word spread that a white woman, Agnes Loebeck, accused a Black man, Will Brown, of raping her. A group of youths gathered in south Omaha and started to march on the courthouse. The crowd was between 5,000 and 15,000. People started shooting at the courthouse with the weapons they stole from nearby stores. 30 minutes later and they set fire to the building. The army arrived at the scene but was too late to save Will Brown.]]> 2023-01-25 15:35:35 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomrei000/99ooob6slh3fhvfo/wish/2456332693 bloomrei000 https://padlet.com/bloomrei000/99ooob6slh3fhvfo/wish/2456351530 After the drowning of the boy in Lake Michigan, several mob fights occurred. Violence increased after each incident. In the aftermath of the riot, some wanted zoning in the city to formally segregate housing or implementing restrictions preventing African Americans to work side by side with whites.]]> 2023-01-25 15:46:46 UTC https://padlet.com/bloomrei000/99ooob6slh3fhvfo/wish/2456351530