1898 race riot now confirmed as white supremacist conspiracy

[hmm]

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/19/ap/national/mainD8EJDIS00.shtml">www.cbsnews.com/stories/2...IS00.shtml</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Report Calls 1898 N.C. Riot an Insurrection<br><br>WILMINGTON, N.C., Dec. 19, 2005<br>(AP) Violence in 1898 that resulted in the only known forceful overthrow of a city government in U.S. history has historically been called a race riot but actually was an insurrection that white supremacists had planned for months, a state commission concludes.<br><br>The violence in Wilmington, which resulted in the deaths of an unknown number of black people, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>"was part of a statewide effort to put white supremacist Democrats in office and stem the political advances of black citizens,"</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> the 1898 Wilmington Riot Commission concludes in a draft report.<br><br>Afterward, white supremacists in state office passed laws that disfranchised blacks until the civil rights movement and Voting Rights Act of the 1960s.<br><br>"Essentially, it crippled a segment of our population that hasn't recovered in 107 years," said Harper Peterson, a commission member and former mayor of Wilmington. "It's a major event that went unnoticed."<br><br>At the time of the violence, black men in North Carolina had been able to vote for some three decades as part of Reconstruction following the Civil War, said Jeffrey Crow, deputy secretary of the state Office of Archives and History, which researched the report.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>interesting bit of history revised... <p></p><i></i>

[marykmusic]

There were so many race riots, so much death and destruction... it's not like this is a recent phenomenon. Tulsa, for example... in 1921. It was the oil capitol of the world at the time, and there are still a couple of very old survivors.<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.blackwallstreet.freeservers.com/" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The history of the United States has produced much in the way of race riots, from the New York City riots of 1862 to the Los Angeles riots of 1991, this country has experienced much civil unrest between blacks and whites. The year 1919 was particularly noted for the large number of riots in the urban areas of the North where returning white veterans of WWI competed with Southern Blacks for jobs during the post-war depression. Again, in 1923, a racial confrontation erupted in Rosewood, Fl. There eight blacks and two whites died during the destruction of the Black community of Rosewood. However, the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 was perhaps the costliest incident of racial violence in American history. At the same time, it is perhaps the most marginalized, being almost forgotten until this decade. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> From <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.mc.cc.md.us/Departments/hpolscrv/VdeLaOliva.html" target="top">this website.</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>The song "Strange Fruit" was performed (to the squirming chagrin of club owners and others in charge) by Billie Holliday:<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The standard, written by Café Society regular Lewis Allen and forever tied to Holiday, is an anguished reprisal of the intense racism still persistent in the South. Though Holiday initially expressed doubts about adding such a bald, uncompromising song to her repertoire, she pulled it off thanks largely to her powers of nuance and subtlety. "Strange Fruit" soon became the highlight of her performances. Though John Hammond refused to record it (not for its politics but for its overly pungent imagery), he allowed Holiday a bit of leverage to record for Commodore, the label owned by jazz record-store owner Milt Gabler. Once released, "Strange Fruit" was banned by many radio outlets, though the growing jukebox industry (and the inclusion of the excellent "Fine and Mellow" on the flip) made it a rather large, though controversial, hit. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> From <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.mp3.com/billie-holiday/artists/42214/biography.html" target="top">this website.</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>I grew up in the deep South. I understand, and stood up against racist bullies from a very early age. --MaryK <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=marykmusic>marykmusic</A> at: 12/20/05 2:57 pm<br></i>