By 1943 the number of blacks in Detroit had doubled since 1933 to 200,000 and racial tensions in the city grew accordingly. To protest unfair conditions, some blacks began a "bumping campaign" -- walking into whites on the streets and bumping th
As they beat and clawed at our line, they poured out a torrent of obscene words and slogans. "We'll finish Hitler's job! Give us Robeson! We'll string that big nigger up!"
Alex Manly, editor of the Wilmington Daily Record, charged that, "poor white men are careless in the matter of protecting their women," and that, "our experience among poor white people in the country teaches us that women of that race are
Seventy-five years after the fact and six decades after his death, a black Tulsa businessman has been cleared of wrongdoing in connection with one of the deadliest race riots in American history.
A black suspect, questioned in an attempted sexual assault on a white woman, had been released by the Metropolitan Police. The woman was the wife of a Navy man. So the booze-fueled mutterings about revenge flowed quickly among hundreds of men in uniform,
The Longview Race Riot occurred during the Red Summer, as May to October of 1919 has been called. It was the second of twenty-five major racial conflicts that occurred throughout the United States during these months.
On November 10 hundreds of white supremacists armed with rifles and artillery invaded black neighborhoods in Wilmington, North Carolina, destroying property, burning buildings, and attacking residents. Citizens from all social strata participated in the a
