race riots

Larry O'Dell, State Historian with the Oklahoma Historical Society, joins host Adam Camac to discuss key figures and events in the historical and cultural development of Oklahoma.  The show notes page for this episode can be found at placesandprofiles.com/3.

WHO IS GEORGE FLOYD? – SHAM PROTESTS, RIOTS, LOOTING, MAYHEM AND ANARCHY 
A seventh day of mass so called demonstrations actually riots, looting, arson, madness, mayhem and anarchy has put government officials, law enforcement officers and protesters at odds in cities across the United States after an African American man, was killed in police custody in Minneapolis by a Minneapolis police officer on Memorial Day.

The British Government looked around in 1919 and saw a growing menace in the Soviet Union, a land led by Lenin, a land of Bolsheviks intent on spreading the fire of revolution across the world. More importantly they believed that the most powerful unions in Britain had been infected by this new disease.
Prime Minister David Lloyd George called the bluff of the `Triple Alliance' of Coal, Transport and Rail. Making it clear to them that if there was a general strike the Government would collapse and the unions would have to run the country. Clearly he knew that although the rank and file union members might be militant their leaders were not.
The problem for Black people is that this meant that they could be used as a smokescreen to deflect bad times onto, and they were.

For African Americans, World War I highlighted the widening gap between U.S. rhetoric regarding "the war to make the world safe for democracy" and the reality of disenfranchised and exploited black farmers in the South or the poor and alienated residents of the Northern slums. 
Despite the bravery and sacrifice of soldiers like the Harlem Hellfighters the belief of intellectuals like W E B DuBois that participating in the war would lead to equality at home was soon shown to be flawed. As African Americans realized that President Wilson’s notion of “democracy” did not extend to them, they evolved a collective will to fight back against mob violence rather than turn the other cheek. 
The racism and violence experienced by black people led veterans in northern cities to create defence groups and even to place snipers on rooftops. After this there was no turning back to the days of sullen acceptance and violence that was never likely to lead to court action, let alone sentence for racists. 1919 saw a resurgence of the KKK and those like it but it also led to an undercurrent that may have led to the Black panther movement.

 Chapter 20:  The Red Summer of 1919.  Race Riots, Brutality and the deaths of Black People under attack by white mobs.  Across the United States in 1919 there was a brutal swathe of racial violence leading to hundreds of Black people being shot, lynched and burnt to death. 
The story is told by the The History Guy a superb American Youtube site that you should subscribe to. 

The credit for this work is with Waymark Productions. The Omaha race riot occurred in Omaha, Nebraska, September 28–29, 1919. The Race Riot resulted in the brutal lynching of Will Brown, a black worker; the death of two white rioters; the attempted hanging of Mayor Edward Parson Smith; the injuries of many Omaha Police Department officers as well as white and black civilians; and a public rampage by thousands of white rioters who set fire to the Douglas County Courthouse in downtown Omaha

Although our work relates directly to the Race Riots in Wales, these events had a world context. The Race related murder and brutality occurred across the United States and there the level of brutality was staggering to those of us in Britain. Nowhere suffered like Elaine County, the level of brutality was sanctioned, accepted even expected, hunting season was literally declared by white people and the prey was any black person they saw.
This story is told by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, narrated by the great actor Ossie Davis. This Part One.

This short story outlines, and names, what happened to the 15 Black men arrested by the Police during the race riots in Cardiff. It explains how they were treated by the Court, the fact that some of them actually received compensation, even one of the men sent to prison, and shows that despite the lies and deceits in the Press the men received reasonable fair treatment in the Court. 

This short story tells us who the perpetrators were that instigated and encouraged the riots in Cardiff. It identifies the 10 men arrested by the Police and found guilty in Swansea Court.  It shows us that these men were career criminals, not men who had lost their jobs because of Black men. A mob is an explosion but to continue that over a number of days requires the flames to be constantly fanned and these men were the constant spark.

This short story addresses the nature of the Race Riots in Liverpool in 1919. Created by Hatch TV in collaboration with Writing on the Wall and the Geography Department of Liverpool University the Narration is by Janiya Pickett.  The accompanying video can be seen on our You Tube site 1919 The Year of Revolt and Race Riot or on WOW's own site.
It uses the streets and the identities of the actual victims of the riot to walk us along the path of tragedy and destruction in June 1919 Liverpool.
We are grateful to WOW for allowing us to use their production.

This is a timeline of the events in the UK in 1919 that were precursors to a potential revolution. Striking soldiers, strikes, the creation of an independent Ireland, mutinies and white mobs attacking black and minority people across the UK. 
The British Government were afraid of a Bolshevik uprising in 1919 in the UK and it very nearly happened.

Choices made in the wake of the violence set a foundation for the racial inequality the city continues to grapple with.

Long-brewing racial tensions came to a head one hot summer day, when a black boy was drowned near a whites-only beach.