https://padlet.com/reide1/kt462dqs673v 1908-1938 en-us 2016-11-08 21:48:08 UTC 2023-01-20 23:49:20 UTC hello@padlet.com aleepettit222016 https://padlet.com/reide1/kt462dqs673v/wish/136744825 This video starts off by talking about the events and feelings that led up to the Longview Race Riot. The viewer should take note of all the things that led up to these riots and notice how African Americans did not just start them for no reason. The Red Scare is mentioned first. During this time, there was radical political agitation due to the Red Scare and fears of communism. Of course, African Americans were terrified. Whites were still trying to make them feel inferior, even after they had just fought for their country alongside whites. Negroes were given no respect for their service and were still treated badly. Whites were even trying to disenfranchise the blacks. Although all of this was happening to blacks, the viewer should notice how the whites try to make the blacks seem like they are the "bad guys". This is seen on the poster that reads "NEGROES PLAN TO KILL ALL WHITES". The whites were killing negroes for decades and little was said and brought to attention. Even then, lynchings continued with little repercussions to whites. Another point brought to attention in this video is the idea of democracy. The core values of democracy, liberty, equality, and justice, were not at all being acknowledged and were being thrown out the window in this time period. Negroes were not treated with liberty, equality, or justice. This not only hurt the blacks, but skewed the whites superiority belief and their own morals. The video explains the specific events leading up to the Longview Race Riot. It was quickly put to an end, but the effects, mentally and physically, on both races still lingered. ]]> 2016-11-10 14:53:45 UTC https://padlet.com/reide1/kt462dqs673v/wish/136744825 aleepettit222016 https://padlet.com/reide1/kt462dqs673v/wish/136771622 The summer of 1919 was known as the Red Summer due to the increase of race riots as well as other racial conflicts. This period occurred from May to October of 1919, with a staggering 25 major conflicts. While the riot in Longview, Texas was nowhere as destructive as race riots in cities like Chicago and Washington, D.C. (Longview was a rural town with a population of 5,700 people, 31 percent of which was black), it still caused a statewide panic, mobilizing the National Guard and putting the entirety of Gregg County under martial law until the groups involved were apprehended.
Notice the many factors that added to the final eruption from blacks in Longview. The tension started at the end of World War I, when black soldiers returned home riding on the pride they carried from fighting alongside whites. Of course, whites did not acknowledge them. This is seen previously in history after the 13th and 14th Amendments are passed and blacks are still treated inferiorly. Blacks were still on a high though, due to the increasing economic and social gains from the war. 
One field that took off for the black community was publication. This was happening around the time that the "New Negro" was forming and blacks started to want to embrace their culture. Notice how this plays heavily into the cause of this race riot. Newspapers and magazines made the circulation of African American news accessible across the country, inciting the incident that caused the rioting. When African Americans were treated unfairly, such as being lynched, the newspapers would publish this, raising anger and hatred towards the white controlled government and towns.
S.L. Jones was the schoolteacher who wrote the article, in response to the beating of another black man for allegedly having a romantic relationship with the white woman. Not only did this accusation go against the laws of interracial relationships, it was also shared nationwide. In the woman's brothers' eyes, this was scandalous, so they target Jones and beat him to “keep him in his place.” Dr. Calvin P. Davis coming to Jones’s aid only furthered the tension, making him a target for the violence. Both Davis and Jones were leaders in the black community, so the African Americans wanted to protect both men. This created the back-and-forth that eventually turned into the riot that shook Gregg County and got the Governor concerned enough to send the National Guard, which quelled the destruction.
What the article does not tell us is how the conflict ended. When Captain Hanson and his Texas Rangers caught both groups of white and black men, the white men were later released on $1000 bond, while the black men stayed in county jail before being moved to state jails at the expense of Gregg County. This was most likely for their safety until those investigating the situation could figure out what to do. In the end, however, neither group faced a trial. Historically speaking, this saved the small town from years of focus on trials for the groups. Additionally, the white men most likely would not face convictions for their violence, or at the very least would have gotten a slap on the wrists. Meanwhile, the black men would have faced heavy sentences, since the jury would most likely be all white in the Southern state. Essentially, the men in charge saved the black men from possible execution and prevented further tension within Longview.

]]> 2016-11-10 15:46:39 UTC https://padlet.com/reide1/kt462dqs673v/wish/136771622 dugan4 https://padlet.com/reide1/kt462dqs673v/wish/136911745 This article discusses the many controversies of the early twentieth century concerning the African American community not only in the south but as well as the Midwest. It analyzes the idea of racism and how the surrounding white communities reacted to it. You should also note the differences of a race riot and a lynching. Although both are very present in this period a lynching is when a white mob beats and kills an African American man or woman who disagrees with the whites way of life or is convicted of a crime. This difference is a key point made. Along with this it also expresses the progress of the Civil Rights Movement throughout this summer, known as the Red Summer. This progress was later looked upon as less favorable, the leaders began to push a non-violent approach rather than continue to heighten tensions between the African-American community and the white community. The reader should pay special attention to the effects World War I had on those returning black veterans. They used armed self-defense to protect themselves and their rights. The reader should note the emphasis on the idea of self-defense but as the times progress that idea begins to be dismissed. With this dismissal of self-defense, many critics in modern-day society begin to discredit this and express the reoccurring idea nonviolence as a form of protest rather than armed self-defense. Krugler shows how not only was armed self-defense a form of protest but also the use of press as well as the courts. The reader should not only pay attention to the idea of armed self-defense but they should also look at the ideas of the press and how it spread throughout the African American communities in the nation. With the publications of all black press being spread nationwide, Krugler begins to express that it was the means to ignite protest and race riots. The NAACP's newsletter spread the word of race riots, lynchings and other acts of violence amongst the black community. The reader should begin to see trends such as the small beginnings these started but soon grew in number as a result of African Americans rebelling. This trend is seen throughout the progress of the Civil Rights Movement. ]]> 2016-11-10 23:37:46 UTC https://padlet.com/reide1/kt462dqs673v/wish/136911745