The Real "Black Wall Street" Killings: 300+ dead
It began on Memorial Day 1921, in downtown Tulsa, a boomtown flush with oil money, and by the time the three-day massacre was complete, a well-armed white mob, some of them deputized by the police department, had ruined Tulsa's prosperous black neighborhood Greenwood--"the black Wall Street"--had razed thirty-six square blocks, burned to the ground more than 3,000 homes and killed as many as 300 people, many of whom were buried in mass graves or simply dumped anonymously into the Arkansas River. By the end of the onslaught, Tulsa's thriving black community, which numbered some 15,000 people and was famous for its cultural and financial achievements, rivaling New York City as a national center of urban black life, was destroyed.
read the article here
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010820/1921tulsa
audio:democracynow.org
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/047211
Killing of the Lakota People: 300+ dead
It was the 29th day of the Moon of Popping Trees (December) in 1890. Peace was sleeping within the warm winter wind under the murderous eyes of Gatling and Hotchkiss guns, dug into the ridges surrounding the Lakota encampment.
Chief Spotted Elk ("Bigfoot" was the name soldiers gave him), flying the flag of truce within his encampment, was dying from pneumonia. His people were dying from fear of the white soldiers who had come to take revenge for the defeat of their unit, the 7th Cavalry, at Little Bighorn in The Moon When the Chokecherries are Ripe (June) in 1876. All the soldiers needed was the smallest excuse to begin the massacre.
A single shot, according to a reporter on the scene, was fired from the soldiers, and with that, the smallest excuse was manufactured. When the rain of ammunition ceased, over 300 Lakota people lay dead from gunfire, cannonfire, or manual butchering within the encampment and within adjacent ravines up to two miles away. The dead were Lakota men who had been disarmed before the weapons fire began, women, many with babes in arms or waiting to be born, and children The soldiers walked away from their crime against humanity and left the dead where they lay. That night, the sky cried snow and the warm winter wind of peace was supplanted by the cold winter wind of grief. For four days, the dead laid where they were, frozen into grotesque shapes of lifelessness. Finally, the soldiers came and loaded the dead like cordwood in wagons, and hauled their loads to hastily dug mass graves, where the dead were thrown in - the bodies of men, women, and children whose spirits walked the encampment and ravines, wailing. The mass graves were filled and the soldiers left. Twenty-seven Congressional Medals of Honor [sic] for "bravery" were awarded to the soldiers who participated in that heinous murder for their parts in fighting the allegedly hostile "war parties" attacking them that day.
http://www.dickshovel.com/WKa.html
http://www.indianz.com/News/2006/017305.asp
“Race Riots” (which should be understood as “lots of white people burning non-whites out of their homes”)
Elaine... Race Riot? Or A Black Massacre: 800+ dead
Black sharecroppers were holding a Party at the Hoop Spur Church in Elaine, Arkansas before dawn on October 1, 1919. Many of the African American sharecroppers had not been paid fair shares for the products they grew and wanted to join the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America and were also discussing filing a class action lawsuit against their landlords. Union members advocating for the union brought armed guards to protect the meeting. A white deputy sheriff and a railroad detective, both armed, arrived at the meeting place and a fight broke out. In the ensuing gunfire the deputy sheriff was wounded and the railroad worker was killed.
The violence expanded beyond the meeting place and fighting in the area lasted for three days. Word traveled to neighboring states through hyperventilated newspaper reports that an 'insurrection' was occurring, which brought additional armed men into the county from outside to support the white citizens.
Arkansas Governor Charles Hillman Brough received a request for help from area whites citing a 'Negro uprising'. Brough contacted the War Department and requested federal troops. After considerable delay, approximately 600 U.S. troops arrived and found the town in chaos. The troops made their way to the area of the Hoop Spur Church where they had an exchange of gunfire with black farmers in the woods. Over the next few days the troops disarmed both parties and arrested several hundred black residents.
During this time, several African American and white citizens were killed and more wounded. At least two and possibly many more were killed by federal troops. The exact numbers of dead amongst the African-Americans are unknown, but estimates are as high as 800.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Race_Riot
North Carolina Race Riot: Again it wasn't a riot, but an attack on Black progress
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5058737
more info on above:
http://www.mith.umd.edu/courses/amvirtual/wilmington/wilmington.html
1906 Atlanta Race Riot: 25 - 100+
http://www.workers.org/2006/us/atlanta-1005/
13. E. ST. LOUIS (race) RIOT: 100+
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/ne...6898098EFD0019E686256E04005BF0BC?OpenDocument
Rosewood
http://www.answers.com/topic/rosewood-florida
Black Holocaust Sites
Black Holocaust Society Site
http://www.blackwallstreet.freeservers.com/
Black Holocaust Museum
http://www.blackholocaustmuseum.org/
African-American Holocaust Site
http://www.maafa.org/
Without Sanctuary Lynching touring Exhitbit (graphic pix...must see the real America)
http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/main.html
It began on Memorial Day 1921, in downtown Tulsa, a boomtown flush with oil money, and by the time the three-day massacre was complete, a well-armed white mob, some of them deputized by the police department, had ruined Tulsa's prosperous black neighborhood Greenwood--"the black Wall Street"--had razed thirty-six square blocks, burned to the ground more than 3,000 homes and killed as many as 300 people, many of whom were buried in mass graves or simply dumped anonymously into the Arkansas River. By the end of the onslaught, Tulsa's thriving black community, which numbered some 15,000 people and was famous for its cultural and financial achievements, rivaling New York City as a national center of urban black life, was destroyed.
read the article here
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010820/1921tulsa
audio:democracynow.org
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/047211
Killing of the Lakota People: 300+ dead
It was the 29th day of the Moon of Popping Trees (December) in 1890. Peace was sleeping within the warm winter wind under the murderous eyes of Gatling and Hotchkiss guns, dug into the ridges surrounding the Lakota encampment.
Chief Spotted Elk ("Bigfoot" was the name soldiers gave him), flying the flag of truce within his encampment, was dying from pneumonia. His people were dying from fear of the white soldiers who had come to take revenge for the defeat of their unit, the 7th Cavalry, at Little Bighorn in The Moon When the Chokecherries are Ripe (June) in 1876. All the soldiers needed was the smallest excuse to begin the massacre.
A single shot, according to a reporter on the scene, was fired from the soldiers, and with that, the smallest excuse was manufactured. When the rain of ammunition ceased, over 300 Lakota people lay dead from gunfire, cannonfire, or manual butchering within the encampment and within adjacent ravines up to two miles away. The dead were Lakota men who had been disarmed before the weapons fire began, women, many with babes in arms or waiting to be born, and children The soldiers walked away from their crime against humanity and left the dead where they lay. That night, the sky cried snow and the warm winter wind of peace was supplanted by the cold winter wind of grief. For four days, the dead laid where they were, frozen into grotesque shapes of lifelessness. Finally, the soldiers came and loaded the dead like cordwood in wagons, and hauled their loads to hastily dug mass graves, where the dead were thrown in - the bodies of men, women, and children whose spirits walked the encampment and ravines, wailing. The mass graves were filled and the soldiers left. Twenty-seven Congressional Medals of Honor [sic] for "bravery" were awarded to the soldiers who participated in that heinous murder for their parts in fighting the allegedly hostile "war parties" attacking them that day.
http://www.dickshovel.com/WKa.html
http://www.indianz.com/News/2006/017305.asp
“Race Riots” (which should be understood as “lots of white people burning non-whites out of their homes”)
Elaine... Race Riot? Or A Black Massacre: 800+ dead
Black sharecroppers were holding a Party at the Hoop Spur Church in Elaine, Arkansas before dawn on October 1, 1919. Many of the African American sharecroppers had not been paid fair shares for the products they grew and wanted to join the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America and were also discussing filing a class action lawsuit against their landlords. Union members advocating for the union brought armed guards to protect the meeting. A white deputy sheriff and a railroad detective, both armed, arrived at the meeting place and a fight broke out. In the ensuing gunfire the deputy sheriff was wounded and the railroad worker was killed.
The violence expanded beyond the meeting place and fighting in the area lasted for three days. Word traveled to neighboring states through hyperventilated newspaper reports that an 'insurrection' was occurring, which brought additional armed men into the county from outside to support the white citizens.
Arkansas Governor Charles Hillman Brough received a request for help from area whites citing a 'Negro uprising'. Brough contacted the War Department and requested federal troops. After considerable delay, approximately 600 U.S. troops arrived and found the town in chaos. The troops made their way to the area of the Hoop Spur Church where they had an exchange of gunfire with black farmers in the woods. Over the next few days the troops disarmed both parties and arrested several hundred black residents.
During this time, several African American and white citizens were killed and more wounded. At least two and possibly many more were killed by federal troops. The exact numbers of dead amongst the African-Americans are unknown, but estimates are as high as 800.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Race_Riot
North Carolina Race Riot: Again it wasn't a riot, but an attack on Black progress
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5058737
more info on above:
http://www.mith.umd.edu/courses/amvirtual/wilmington/wilmington.html
1906 Atlanta Race Riot: 25 - 100+
http://www.workers.org/2006/us/atlanta-1005/
13. E. ST. LOUIS (race) RIOT: 100+
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/ne...6898098EFD0019E686256E04005BF0BC?OpenDocument
Rosewood
http://www.answers.com/topic/rosewood-florida
Black Holocaust Sites
Black Holocaust Society Site
http://www.blackwallstreet.freeservers.com/
Black Holocaust Museum
http://www.blackholocaustmuseum.org/
African-American Holocaust Site
http://www.maafa.org/
Without Sanctuary Lynching touring Exhitbit (graphic pix...must see the real America)
http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/main.html
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