Category: Racial Violence
Inside The Little-Known History Of America’s Sundown Towns — Which Banned Black People After Dark
By Bernadette Giacomazzo | Checked By Jaclyn AnglisPublished September 21, 2021 For much of the 20th century, thousands of all-white American towns forbade Black people [more…]
How Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” Shocked Listeners With Its Brutal Confrontation of Racism
BY KENNETH PARTRIDGE OCTOBER 6, 2021 According to recent findings by the Equal Justice Initiative, nearly 4000 Black individuals were lynched by white Southerners in the United States [more…]
The Story Of The 1919 Elaine Race Massacre That You Didn’t Learn In School
By Genevieve Carlton | Checked By Jaclyn AnglisPublished December 30, 2021 In 1919, Black sharecroppers in Arkansas tried to organize for better wages — until a white mob and [more…]
‘Black skin was a death warrant’: how the East St Louis race massacre was an omen for racial violence to come
Four years before the Tulsa race massacre, white mobs firebombed homes and decimated a Black community in Illinoisby Bayeté Ross Smith. Essay by Susan Smith Richardson The racial violence in East St Louis, [more…]