Add to ORKGThe Red Summer of 1919 may very well be the bloodiest season in the history of American lynching and racial rioting. There were an estimated 41 race riots and lynchings that rocked the country from New York to San Francisco. Omaha was at the heart of these melees boasting its third illegal lynching since 1891, and culminating in the murder of Will Brown on September 28th. The callous executions across the United States were validated to various excuses including; stealing pigs, sitting on a porch too long, not using proper pronouns when addressing Whites, and thievery. By far, the most common theme was the exploitation and violation of White women. Omaha was no exception to this rule. On the evening of the 27th, rumors had been floating aro...
On January 20, 1942, black oil mill worker Cleo Wright assaulted a white woman in her home and nearl...
This photograph shows armed soldiers standing guard outside the Fayette County Court House, Washingt...
Nearly 5,000 black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960. Over forty years later, Sherrilyn I...
In 1919, a white mob stormed into an Omaha courthouse looking for a Black man named Will Brown whom ...
One of Omaha’s riots occurred September 28–29, 1919. The riot was by white people: it was not a race...
Was the American West really violent? This question has been debated by historians for decades. Homi...
“The most remarkable scene ever enacted in the heart of a great city was witnessed in Topeka last ni...
Accounts of lynching in the United States have primarily focused on violence against African America...
According to records maintained by the NAACP, between 1882 and 1968 there were 4,743 documented case...
In 1904, a lynch mob of more than 1000 white people burned Luther Holbert, a black Mississippi share...
In an article entitled “The Last Lynching in Athens,” published in the Flagpole on Sept. 10, 1997, I...
The “Red Summer of 1919” marked the nadir of interracial violence that characterized urban America d...
On May 15, 1916, in Waco, Texas, Jesse Washington was tortured to death before a mob estimated to be...
Following an overview of the study in Chapter One, the second and third chapters include accounts of...
During the summer of 1936, Helen Clevenger, an honor student at New York University, accompanied her...
On January 20, 1942, black oil mill worker Cleo Wright assaulted a white woman in her home and nearl...
This photograph shows armed soldiers standing guard outside the Fayette County Court House, Washingt...
Nearly 5,000 black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960. Over forty years later, Sherrilyn I...
In 1919, a white mob stormed into an Omaha courthouse looking for a Black man named Will Brown whom ...
One of Omaha’s riots occurred September 28–29, 1919. The riot was by white people: it was not a race...
Was the American West really violent? This question has been debated by historians for decades. Homi...
“The most remarkable scene ever enacted in the heart of a great city was witnessed in Topeka last ni...
Accounts of lynching in the United States have primarily focused on violence against African America...
According to records maintained by the NAACP, between 1882 and 1968 there were 4,743 documented case...
In 1904, a lynch mob of more than 1000 white people burned Luther Holbert, a black Mississippi share...
In an article entitled “The Last Lynching in Athens,” published in the Flagpole on Sept. 10, 1997, I...
The “Red Summer of 1919” marked the nadir of interracial violence that characterized urban America d...
On May 15, 1916, in Waco, Texas, Jesse Washington was tortured to death before a mob estimated to be...
Following an overview of the study in Chapter One, the second and third chapters include accounts of...
During the summer of 1936, Helen Clevenger, an honor student at New York University, accompanied her...
On January 20, 1942, black oil mill worker Cleo Wright assaulted a white woman in her home and nearl...
This photograph shows armed soldiers standing guard outside the Fayette County Court House, Washingt...
Nearly 5,000 black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960. Over forty years later, Sherrilyn I...