This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... n WHY RACE RIOT8? A PERSPECTIVE of recent American -**- history reveals armed conflicts between white men and black, like beacon fires, serving as illuminants and as warnings. The summer and early fall of 1919 especially were distinguished by outbreaks) which seemed to many a portent of race war to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... n WHY RACE RIOT8? A PERSPECTIVE of recent American -**- history reveals armed conflicts between white men and black, like beacon fires, serving as illuminants and as warnings. The summer and early fall of 1919 especially were distinguished by outbreaks) which seemed to many a portent of race war to come. In June bloody conflict raged in Longview, Texas, bursts of fire spat from houses in which colored men defended themselves from a white mob--only to have the houses later burned to the ground. In the same month the national capital became for three days the stamping-ground of rioters who were massed and did their will in the streets about the government buildings. The Negro residence district was made a zone which white men entered at their peril. Chicago, Knoxville, Omaha, Charleston, Elaine--the roster of names is monotonously long; the casualty lists startling. Each disaster in which hate found a vent and more hate was born came upon all the country, except the community which suffered, as a strange and terrible phenomenon--so terrible a commentary on our civilization as to be forgotten almost as soon as it was past. Vaguely, it was attributed to Negro criminality, the quick spread of a brawl, or to "race hatred." Southern editors jibed at Northern cities, and the North became aware of a "national problem." Awareness of that problem was intensified not so much by reason of the persons who died or were maimed as by the hatred displayed. It overran civil government and released primitive impulses in acts more bestial than the best or worst of savagery. Cynics as to democratic processes remark by way of comment that in the cycle of history the crowd that howled down the streets of Rome under the late emperors is akin to...
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