"scores of african americans were brutaLized & suffered great injustices"

[sniffa]

yep, onLy scores.

MR. McCLELLAN: This was a terrible, dark chapter in our own nation's history, and scores of African Americans and their families were brutalized and suffered great injustices.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/06/20050613-3.html


WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate apologized Monday for never having outlawed lynching, which between 1880 and 1960 took the lives of more than 4,700 people, most of them blacks.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/krwashbureau/20050613/ts_krwashbureau/_bc_lynching_wa_1


4700 - and that doesn't even incLude the scores of african americans who were brutaLized and/or suffered great injustices, but not necessariLy Lynched.

[POAS]

1. Not to mention the

untold thousands that "enjoyed" the hospitality of their slavemasters whips and chains for the previous 3 or 4 hundred years in Merka.

[sniffa]

3. hey poas

:hi:

hey, if not for that, they wouLdn't be enjoying this wonderfuL country.

[CatWoman]

11. and what of the thousands who died on the Middle Passage

an estimated 30 - 35 Million died

http://www.bjmjr.com/ttdancy/aa_soldier.htm

[Igel]

15. I think you mean "Middle Passage." n/t

[CatWoman]

19. grr

I hate doing that!!

Thanks!!

:hi:

[Kraklen]

2. The Tulsa massacre

is believed to have resulted in the deaths of some 2,000 African Americans in one night alone.

It included the first instance of aerial bombardment of a civilian population.

[POAS]

5. Got a link to historical reference to this?

I've never heard of it and want to learn more.

[sniffa]

8. aLso

the community in fLorida - it'LL come to me.

[KG]

13. that would be Rosewood

[Brewman_Jax]

14. Rosewood, FL

was almost wiped from the map by a white mob. There was a movie by the same name released in 1997.

[Kraklen]

10. Sure...

There's this...

http://www.tulsareparations.org/TRR.htm

Although they've got a different fatality estimate than what I've heard reported on PBS.

More, a CNN article, upper estimate: 3,000 dead.

http://www.cnn.com/US/9908/03/tulsa.riots.probe/

[CatWoman]

16. The Black Wall Street and Rosewood

http://www.informationman.com/blkwallst.htm

http://www.displaysforschools.com/rosewood.html

[Kraklen]

17. Thanks.

I wonder how many more there were that we'll never hear about.

[CatWoman]

18. .....

Elaine, Ark: http://www.nathanielturner.com/boodintheireyes.htm

Confederate "Heritage" Month - April 22: Racial massacres during the war

http://journals.aol.com/bmiller224/OldHickorysWeblog/entries/2941

http://www.afrigeneas.com/forum-military/index.cgi?noframes;read=930

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3644/is_200401/ai_n9349320

Riots & Massacres in the Jim Crow South

http://www.nathanielturner.com/jimcrowriots.htm

The Massacres of History

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/History/Massacres_History.html

The Carrolltown Massacre

http://pages.towson.edu/oali/chronology_of_events_18861900.htm

The Horror of the East St. Louis Massacre

http://www.exodusnews.com/HISTORY/History010.htm

[fujiyama]

27. Don't forget

the New York City Civil War draft riots, where large numbers of African Americans were targetted.

[Lars39]

22. Here's some info....absolutely horrible!

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/416.html

[bobbieinok]

28. amazon discussion of one book with links to others

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618108130/103-5716463-6946207?v=glance

Ellsworth's and Hannibal Johnson's books are well thought of

[bobbieinok]

29. link to nearly 100 photographs

http://www.lib.utulsa.edu/speccoll/tulsa_race_riot.htm

[bobbieinok]

30. link to essay by Scott Ellsworth, the first to write a scholarly book abou

about the riot.....in the 50s, I think

he discusses here the Tulsa economy, the KKK, the succesful black business in Tulsa, the attitude of black vets of WWI, etc

Dr John Hope Franklin, a retired history prof at Duke, is a member of a black family affected ty the Tulsa Race Riot

[HawkerHurricane]

6. I'm being nit picky on you...

But London was bombed by the Germans in 1915.

http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Lighter_than_air/zeppelin/LTA8.htm

[Kraklen]

12. You're right.

That is nitpicky.

OK, OK, first use of heavier than air aircraft.

[HawkerHurricane]

24. And worse...

On May 23, 1917, a fleet of 21 Gothas appeared over the English coastal town of Folkestone. On the deadliest day of bombing yet, 95 people were killed, and England began to panic. At noon on June 13, another Gotha fleet dropped bombs onto London. For the next month, the daily raids on the capital city met with little opposition from the Royal Air Force, angering the population of London. Production levels within the city dropped. Citizens felt that their government was incapable of protecting them. They demanded that the military protect them and stop the bombs. They felt exposed and helpless, just as German military strategists had hoped they would.

http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Air_Power/WWI_Bombing/AP3.htm

It is probably the first bombing of a American city, and the first by American aircraft... which is the sort of double first that's not much of an honor.

[bobbieinok]

26. the highest crdible number I've seen is 300+

[silverweb]

4. "Scores" ???

Try generations... millions....

:banghead:

[POAS]

7. Scores, generations, millions

It's old news now
Nothing to see here move along.

[WearyOne]

9. and they still are

[applegrove]

20. Doesn't include the millions of AA who were scared into not voting or

demanding their rights because of the 'threat' of KKK terrorism.

[applegrove]

21. Doesn't include the millions of AA who were scared into not voting or

demanding their rights because of the 'threat' of KKK terrorism.

[Brewman_Jax]

23. Without Sanctuary

http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/

Photos and postcards of lynchings in the USA. The pictures show the depths of depravity and brutality. :(

Warning: the photos are graphic.

[ISUGRADIA]

25. score defined=20, McClellan=Idiot

[Karenina]

31. Kick!

:kick:

[moondust]

32. You apologize if you step on somebody's toes.

I'm not sure an apology is what is called for in this case.

[Solly Mack]

33. and they think they've accomplished something