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African American History, Events

Revisit: THE CINCINNATI RIOT

The Cincinnati Riot was four days of civil disorder in response to the shooting death of nineteen-year-old Timothy Thomas by Cincinnati Police Patrolman Stephen Roach.  Officer Roach was attempting to arrest Thomas for traffic citations. The riot mostly occurred in the Over the Rhine neighborhood near downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, between April 9 and April 13, 2001. The riot was the largest urban disturbance in the United States since the 1992 Rodney King Riots and caused an estimated $3.6 million in damage to 120 businesses and public buildings. Continue reading Revisit: THE CINCINNATI RIOT

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Revisit: MARION, INDIANA LYNCHING

On August 7, 1930, a mob of ten to fifteen thousand whites abducted three young black men from the jail in Marion, Indiana, lynching Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith. Sixteen-year-old James Cameron narrowly survived after being beaten by the mob. Lawrence Beitler’s photograph of the two victims’ hanging bodies is regarded as one of the most iconic images of an American lynching. Continue reading Revisit: MARION, INDIANA LYNCHING

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Revisit: NASHVILLE STREETCAR BOYCOTT

The 1896 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson made segregationist laws permissible anywhere in the United States as long as railroads, streetcars, and other public conveyances provided equal accommodations for blacks and whites. The decision, which served as the constitutional underpinning for the nation’s Jim Crow system, was resisted by black civil rights leaders across the United States. One example of resistance emerged in Nashville, Tennessee. Continue reading Revisit: NASHVILLE STREETCAR BOYCOTT

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