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A nation which does not know what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today. – Woodrow Wilson The Siege on South Peoria Street by N. Caroline Harney and James Charlton for the Chicago Reader. January 13, 2000 The race riots that exploded in Chicago after the war usually targeted blacks moving into white neighborhoods. But…
“The rich White folks inflamed the poor White folks, and told them that these Black people were taking over the city.” – Historian Larry Thomas Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 Following the Phoenix Election Riot, a white insurgent group overthrew the elected biracial fusionist government, including a white mayor, of the city of Wilmington, North Carolina. They…
We have waited two hundred and fifty years for liberty, and this is what it is when it comes. O Liberty, what crimes are committed in thy name! – Rev. Charles S. Morris The Rev. J. Allen Kirk gave this statement about the experience of November 10, 1898. It was a great sight to see…
More Crucial White History they didn’t teach you in school. The Phoenix election riot occurred on November 8, 1898, near Greenwood County, South Carolina, when a group of local white Democrats attempted to stop a Republican election official from taking the affidavits of African Americans who had been denied the ability to vote. The race-based riot was part of numerous…
According to lore, the sheriff asked, “Who are your leaders?” The response from the ferry was a shout from everyone aboard, declaring, “We are all leaders here.” The Everett Massacre (also known as Bloody Sunday) was an armed confrontation between local authorities and members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union, commonly called “Wobblies”. It took place in Everett,…
“To be a dog woman is not necessarily to be downtrodden; that has very little to do with it. In these pictures every woman’s a dog woman, not downtrodden, but powerful. To be bestial is good. It’s physical. Eating, snarling, all activities to do with sensation are positive. To picture a woman as a dog…
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin The Battle of Virden, also known as the Virden Mine Riot and Virden Massacre, was a labor union conflict and a racial conflict in central Illinois that occurred on October 12, 1898. After a United Mine Workers of America local struck…
A riot is the language of the unheard. – Martin Luther King, Jr. The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its users to forgo its nuanced, complex, midwifery properties for menace and subjugation. Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of…
Is he crazy? No one has ever told me my doodles are good, not that I flash them around or anything. Gen likes them, but she also thinks vampire romances are literature and sings along to ‘Islands in the Stream.’ Her tastes are dubious. She’s not a reliable source. – Jules Barnard Meet Mr. Doodle, the artist from…
Most labor historians today agree that craft unions created an aristocracy of skilled workers at the expense of the unskilled and semiskilled and, at the same time, retarded the further organization of American industry, thus, in the long run, adversely affecting all workers, skilled as well as unskilled. – Philip S. Foner The Steel Strike of…