Black Community Research Paper

T.P. Scott wrote in "Negro City Directory": "Early African American business leaders in Tulsa patterned the development of Tulsa’s thriving Greenwood district after the successful African American entrepreneurial activity in Durham, North

He was then arrested for shooting Homer Nida. When Belton was in the courthouse, thousand of white citizens of Tulsa waited outside for Belton so that justice could be server for the kill of Homer Nida. When Belton came out of the courthouse onlookers cheered as his captors shouted, “We got him boys. We’ve got him.” Belton was then taken to the Jenks road were he then was lynched by the white mob.

Have you faced racial persecution due to the color of your skin? The time was 1900’s and this was the nightmare that Ida B. Wells-Barnett wrote of in Mob Rule in New Orleans. This is the true account of Robert Charles as he fights for his life to escape the hands of a lynching mob. This impassion story collaborates with the witness of this terrifying event that Wells describes. Wells uses her literary skills to shed light on racial discrimination, media bias, and her personal crusade for justice to portray this heart wrenching reality of the violent lynching during the 19th century.

When the judge, Bernard Kamins, who was Caucasian declared three of the four (also white) officers not guilty the public saw his decision very racist. The riots began in the evening after the judgment, and grew over the next two days, but they would continue for several days. Angry Los Angels residents went out to the streets to show their fury. “These people are angry and they have every right to be!” said a man to the news cameras during the destruction. Authorities failed miserably to control the people. As time went by the madness did not decrease but enlarged.

The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 was the culmination of racial tensions both endemic in American society as a whole in the period, and certain tensions peculiar to Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1921, Greenwood and its African American population became the outlet for these often violent tensions seething among Tulsa’s white population. The following paper seeks to shed some further understanding on what motivated and pushed the whites of Tulsa, Oklahoma to such a violent, extreme reaction during the riot.

In the case of lynching, discourses emerge from heated debates about the meaning of the practice; these debates change over the long history of lynching in America. At different times in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the term “lynching” has implied rather different historical acts amongst the community. It has also been used to specify acts that indicated a wide range of distinct motives, strategies, technologies and meanings, as well as a politically encumbered term. For many African Americans who grew up in the South in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the threat of lynching was mundane. Photographs and postcards illustrating the popular image of an angry white mob hanging a black man does not give the full historic

However insignificant the number of lynching against whites, the significance, as Brundage suggests, lies, “…not in their tiny number, but rather in the way in which they both exposed and molded whites’ attitudes toward mob violence.” (101) While the number of whites compared to blacks lynched was severely uneven it shows that race did not deter a mob from lynching. At this point in time it would be seen that the cause of mob violence from race relations to generalizations about court laws and the white mobs feeling their lack of

There were four young girls by the names of Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley were killed and fourteen others were injured. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at three of the girls’ funeral. The fourth girl’s family requested to have a separate funeral. There were over 8,000 people at both of the funerals. During this time blacks were being arrested for disorderly conduct. They were drinking alcohol, loitering, and being obnoxious. They were even trying to harm whites as they passed

Ossian Sweet was an African American doctor that bought a house in a white neighborhood in Detroit. At the time, neighborhoods in Detroit were unofficially segregated. After Dr. Sweet bought the house, he was warned by neighbors that trouble would come and a block club formed to keep him out. Dr. Sweet expected trouble in his first night at the residence, and thus he enlisted the help of family and friends to protect themselves; he also warned the police, knowing they would not help to keep him safe. In his first night, a crowd formed, 11 police officers were present and there was no violence. However on the second night the crowd was allegedly aggressive and Dr. Sweet feared that the crowd would burn the house along with everyone inside, and as a result someone inside the house shot and killed a member of the crowd while also injuring another. The police immediately rushed inside the house and arrested all occupants. After their arrest, the police wanted to charge them with 1st degree murder, but before the trial, the NAACP heard of the case and wanted to provide legal assistance to protect their rights, out of fear that lynching might spread to the northern part of the U.S. During the first trial the temper of the crowd that had formed outside of Dr. Sweet’s house was heavily debated. One of the strong points for the defense was that the prosecutors could not identify who killed the member of the crowd. The jury could not reach a verdict and thus there was a retrial. In

Upon Clarence’s murder, the entire group of Native American friends was taken to the police station for questioning. During their time at the police station, the white officers degraded them and made them feel less than human. They were made to strip down to their boxer shorts and were treated poorly because they were Native American. Fortunately for

The morning after this happened, 30,000 German Jewish men were arrested for the "crime" of being Jewish and sent to concentration camps. Some Jewish women were also arrested and sent to local jails. “Businesses owned by Jews were not allowed to reopen unless they were managed by non-Jews. Curfews were placed on Jews,

About 8 million people were arrested, tried and sentenced to concentration camps or

were forced to live in the ghettoes, in horrible conditions. On average there was approximately 13 people to a room. The starvation of the Jew's in

The concentration camps established by the British were segregated into black and white camps to prevent the blacks and whites from living in the same areas. The camp administrators wasted supplies instead of giving appropriate provisions to the inmates and assaulted blacks, specifically, to assert their rule. Any blacks suspected of being associated with the British army were brutally beaten or shot. African resistance to this violence was seen from massed attacks against the British, as seen during the Holkrantz conflict in 1901, or individual acts of desertion, the poisoning of wells, and the maiming of Boer cattle. As a result of these camps, nearly 50,000 Boers were murdered, with an estimated 20,000 black casualties

The police force in particular, played a very big part in punishing African Americans in the aftermath of the storm. On Thursday, September 1 Patricia Thompson and her family were on the street across from the convention center. There were cops screaming racial slurs at them and pointing guns at people. “I look down at my five-year-old granddaughter, Baili McPherson, and the light from one of the guns was actually on her forehead(Thompson page 142). This happened because Patricia Thompson stood up and tried to use the bathroom in the convention center, she was appalled at the fact that they were pointing a gun at a five-year-old. The police saw that she was black and they thought she was doing something bad. They blamed her so they pointed a gun at her granddaughter. The police did this on more than one occasion, they pointed their guns at this group of innocent people twice. The first time that the police raised their guns at Patricia Thompson was on