Transcript 1920’s Race Riots - Streetsboro City Schools

1920’s Race Riots
Chicago 1919
Part of the “Red Summer” (bloody) 25 Race Riots
Chicago one of the worst
13 days of violence
38 dead (23 blacks, 15 whites), 537 injured & 1,000 black
families homeless
Re-emergence of the KKK
African American success
The Great Migration
Inadequate housing
Lynching – no laws against it
Ability to fight for rights
Injustice & oppression
1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma
10,000 African American Residents
2nd Largest African American Community
Over 1,000 businesses and homes destroyed
50-300 people killed
No arrests
No justice
1921 Tulsa Race Riot
1923 Rosewood, Florida
White mob totally wiped out entire town
Survivors were shipped out on a train
1993 Florida became the first state to compensate the
survivors
1997 Movie
2004 Rosewood designed Heritage Site
Video: www.virtualrosewood.com
1993 Florida became the first state to compensate
survivors of race riots
1997 Movie
2004 Rosewood - Heritage Site
Video: www.virtualrosewood.com
2005 U.S. Congress formally apologized
Lack of Federal Government response
No anti-lynching laws
No justice for race riot victims