Make no mistake...they were not "race riots", it was mass murder.
For people living in America in particular (especially those from other-than-white cultural and ethnic backgrounds), and billions living outside American shores, the term "Race Riots" conjures up a mob of people fighting against authority. When you hear the term "riot", you immediately visualize a group of lawless people, anarchists, being tolerated, and then reluctantly contained, by law enforcement.
Make no mistake, much like the character of Kaiser Soze in "The Usual Suspects", or the intrigues in "Now You See Me", in these race riots, this is a gross falsehood, a fallacy....a lie. It was genocide in each and every instance.
Ethnic cleansing has been defined as, "the mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society".
In these cases, documentation of which is gradually being scrubbed from the internet, school books, and public consciousness, large numbers of people of African origin were systematically killed, hung, lynched, burned alive, run out of town, castrated, butchered and attacked by mobs of white people in American history. Marco Williams also released an effective video, "Banished", on the topic, but unfortunately, he emphasizes that Sundown Towns are a Southern phenomenon. Actually, they were much more prevalent in the North.
These "Sundown Towns" existed all across America for over 100 years.
They still exist.
North, South, East, West.


 


They are called “Sundown Towns”, “Sunset Towns”, “Gray Towns”. The name comes from a hateful racist ultimatum, an ultimatum that stated in sign after sign, after sign, posted outside of all-white towns/suburbs/communities:
“N*gger, don’t let the sun go down on you in this town.”
“Whites Only Within the City Limits After Dark.”
Many times the message was point blank enforced with vicious brutal clarity:
Banished.
Leave.
Or Die.
And many black Americans did die.
In towns across America, many black people were murdered and the survivors were driven from their homes, property stolen. Towns with names like Greenwood, the “Black Wall Street” of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Towns like Rosewood, Florida. Towns like Wilmington, North Carolina, where America’s only known coup-d’etat occurred. Towns like Forsyth County, Georgia and in many of those in the list of 200 race riots listed below.
Sundown Towns still exist all across America in the 21st Century:


 


-Towns County, Georgia
-Deer Park, Washington
-Anna-Jonesboro, Illinois
-Vienna, Illinois
-Marion, Ohio
-Elwood, Indiana
-Owosso, Michigan
-Lamar, Missouri
-Vidor, Texas
-Berwyn, Illinois
-Cut and Shoot, Texas
-Ironwood, Michigan
Sundown suburbs:
-Levittown, Long Island, New York (now called Willingboro)
-Livonia, Michigan
-Parma, Ohio
-Cicero, Chicago, Illinois
-Darien, Connecticutt
-Naperville, Illinois
-Edina, Minnesota
In addition to six past Presidents of the U.S. being proud members of the KKK, many U.S. presidents also hailed from sundown towns:
-Theodore Roosevelt (Cove Neck, New York)
-William McKinley (Niles, Ohio)
-George W. Bush (Highland Park, Texas)
Besides presidents, famous Americans lived in Sundown Towns:
-Dale Carnegie (Maryville, Missouri)
-Woody Guthrie (Okemah, Oklahoma)
-Joe McCarthy (Appleton, Wisconsin)
-Emily Post (Tuxedo Park, New York)
Numerous inventions were created in Sundown Towns:
*Spam (Austin, Minnesota), Kentucky Fried Chicken (Corbin, Kentucky), *Krispy Kreme doughnuts (Effingham, Illinois) and *Tootsie Rolls (West Lawn, Chicago). Even “Tarzan” was created in a Sundown Town. Tarzan may have been born in “darkest Africa”, but his origins occurred in one Sundown Town (Oak Park, home of Edgar Rice Burroughs), and the proceeds from his very profitable novels and movies underwrote Burroughs’s creation of another sundown town (Tarzana, California).
“Is it true that ’Anna’ stands for ‘Ain’t No Niggers Allowed’?” I once asked at the convenience store in Anna, Illinois, where I stopped to buy coffee.
“Yes,” the store clerk replied. “That’s sad, isn’t it?” she added, distancing herself from the policy. And she went on to assure me, “That all happened a long time ago.” 
Sure.
“I understand racial exclusion is still going on?” I asked.
“Yes,” she replied, “That’s sad.”
The most amazing portion of this sickening portion of American history is that a majority of people still have no idea this ever happened despite the fact that tens of thousands of people who lost their lives, and the genocide and ethnic cleansing involved hundreds of American towns and cities.
How is it possible for a nation to develop such amnesia about its own history? Easy. It's all part of systematic white privilege. The privilege of "Affluenza"......the privilege of not facing the consequences of murder....the privilege of never having a negative stigma attached to your actions. That is why we, as a nation, can bomb others with impunity, and have the rest of the world swallow the lie that it is for one reason or another.
Well, we know why white people would want to conveniently forget the erasing of Black lives ever happened. We also know how it came about that history is being constantly scrubbed, revised and rewritten to omit such important aspects of our history. There are many books that document these events, of course not readily advertised. I recommend:
1. "100 Years of Lynching" by Ralph Ginzburg
2. "Sundown Towns:A Hidden Dimension of American Racism" by James W. Loewen
3. "Musarium: Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America" by Hilton Als and James Allen
4. "Like Judgment Day" by Michael D'Orso (New York: Putnam's, 1996)
5. "Black Hillbillies of the Arkansas Ozarks" by Gordon D. Morgan (Fayetteville: U of AR Dept. of Sociology, 1973 typescript)
6. "Black Ohio and the Color Line" by David Gerber, (Urbana: U of IL P, 1976)
7. "The Talk in Vandalia" by Joseph Lyford (Santa Barbara: Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1962), does mention that African Americans were not allowed in Southern Illinois, but given that his work was a report for the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, his treatment of their exclusion seems curiously understated.
8. "Race Riots and Black Exodus in the Missouri Ozarks, 1894-1905" by Patrick Huber (Harrison, AR: Ozark Cultural Celebration, 9/2002)
9. "Buried in the Bitter Waters" by Elliot Jaspin
Sundown towns were not just places, but a mentality (a way of thinking). This is a crucial aspect in understanding what sundown towns mean for race relations today. In the 1890s, this “sundown” mentality started as one of hateful racial segregation, but today the sundown town mentality has firmly solidified and cemented the aspect of economic segregation and inequality as well.
The truth is, African-Americans moved to northern cities and were confined to ghettos not because they chose to, but because they needed to in order to live normal lives. As such (something with which even Loewen agrees) the poverty and under-education among African-Americans, originally coded into law, was later a result of their deliberate exclusion from wealthier suburban areas and better school districts.
Mostly white and all-White neighborhoods, historically, have better schools, more safety and police involvement, and better infrastructure. African-Americans have been confined to inferior, urban areas and have had more limited opportunities. No matter what conservative Republican politicians like Paul Ryan and Donald Trump will have their “base” voters believe, the lack of economic security among “urban males” has little to do with their supposed lack of initiative, and everything to do with the sub-par opportunities they’ve been extended.
Despite our Fair Housing laws and standards, African-Americans are still dealt an inferior hand when it comes to housing (higher prices in some areas, or a set of “deed-restrictions” to bind residents).
Perhaps most interesting about the sundown mentality is that those towns provided a kind of pastoral retreat for racist whites. In the 1950s Detroit, for example, whites began to move to the suburbs in droves, and according to a New York Times article on the subject, they left because of a “desire for a little green space, new housing, better schools, and freedom from crime. Few of them acknowledged the racial motive behind white flight, that words like “freedom from crime” were code for moving away from Blacks.
Indeed, one could go further and say that the desire for fresher air and greener space was a sublimated desire for racial purity. Sundown towns provide the racially pristine community that racist whites have craved, and they still do in the form of picture-perfect white picket fences and a driveway with a Golden Retriever jumping out to meet its owners.
It is important to further examine the urban myth created and perpetuated by the sundown town mentality. African-Americans, especially today, are associated with blighted urban landscapes and poverty. In fact, the attachment is so prevalent that African-Americans themselves are hard-pressed to overcome it. We have almost taken it for granted that Blacks and other minorities prefer to live in cities and crowded apartments rather than houses. We have, quoting the New York Times, “attributed the whiteness of the suburbs to black racial inferiority: blacks, they said, did not have the discipline to own homes.”
One deluded fallacy Republicans like trotting out is that "African-American people are mostly the ones on welfare and they use the system purely out of choice". Thus, we have created a phantom culture in our minds, one in which African-Americans choose to live and operate on the margins of society despite the “plenty of chances" that mainstream American society has offered them.” It should be added that this mentality applies not just to blacks, but to Latino’s as well. In reality Owsley County, Kentucky is 99.22% white, and 95% Republican and has the highest usage of food stamp (SNAP) benefits in the country.
Sundown towns give us a glimpse into a part of white America in the 19th and 20th century that was overtly racist. African-Americans were believed to be inferior because of their race and biology. Today, racism is prevalent but instead of labeling it “racism,” we talk about “gentrification” or “income gaps.” 
The idea of sundown towns has radically changed the way we look at race relations today and is making us aware of the fact that we have not yet arrived at an ideal and tolerant society.
In any event, the saddest thing to witness in contemporary American events is the stark ignorance most people display when they hear of this for the first time. Many refuse to think white people could ever be "that evil". Others stick to their carefully constructed false narrative paradigm, as it would upset their stereotypes that the system of institutionalized prejudice has set in place and reinforced. The Media does its part in two-facedly bolstering these stereotypes, the Justice system definitely maniacally fast-tracks it, and the Prison system gleefully engorges itself on the victimization of Blacks.
For one, if millions of immigrants- Chinese, Koreans, Russians, Scandinavians, Africans, Swiss, French, Japanese, Aussies, Polish, Canadians, Guatemalans, Brazilians, Italians and the millions of others, can be distracted and brainwashed into believing that Black people are predisposed to criminal activity, then murdering, marginalizing, fearing, scorning, imprisoning, brutalizing, framing, and profiling them, in the modern era becomes more easier and acceptable.
I will not wax poetic ad infinitum about these events. Suffice to say, this is a documentation of deadly incidents in over 200 American cities, each of which individually, took the lives of at least between 10 -10,000 people of color, and collectively, perhaps in the hundred thousand range. We will never know. Thousands simply perished or disappeared, never to be heard from again. Some were cut up and others, less fortunate, fed alive to crocodiles. It is astounding to imagine a people so vile, so heartless, so murderous, so hateful, that would try to eliminate large groups of other humans simply for th color of their skin...but here you have it. Just imagine how many more hundreds of towns were involved, how many more thousands were never documented, how many more innocents lost their lives.
This is your America, the land of the free and home of the brave. The greatest nation on the face of the planet. I wonder how many would be so proud of those monikers if they knew these stories......
I dare you....I challenge you.....I exhort you...I appeal to you.....I beg you....please do the research for yourself if you are truly interested in understanding how we all came to get to the race relations mess we find ourselves in today. Perhaps when your eyes are open to the injustices people of color have bene enduring for centuries in America (we are not even talking about the Slave Trade here), how many tens of thousands of lives have been lost because a group of people decided they wanted the property of these successful Black people who were determined to make something of themselves.
Please don't be dismissive and think, "well, what have they done for themselves lately". They have done plenty, but this is not about the successes of present-day people of African descent, but the murderous obstacles in the paths of those that came before (some of whom are very much still alive and bear the wounds), and why these same obstacles scream for us to proclaim......Black Lives Matter.






Race Riots of the 1800's
1824: October 18 Providence, R.I. Hardscrabble Riots
1829: June- August: Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati Riots of 1829
1831: Providence, R.I. Snow Town Riots
1834: July 7 New York City, N, Y Farren Riots
1834: August 12 Philadelphia, PA Flying Horse Riot
1836: April and July Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati riots of 1836
1841: September Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati riots of 1841
1855: Cincinnati, OH
1863: March 6 Detroit, MI Detroit Race Riot
1863: July 13-16. NYC City, NY New York City Draft Riots
1866: May 1-3 Memphis, Tennessee Memphis Riots of 1866
1866: June Charleston, SC
1866: July 30. New Orleans, LA New Orleans Riot of 1866
1867: Pulaski, Tennessee Pulaski Riot
1868: September 28 Opelousas, LA Opelousas Massacre
1868: September 19 Camilla, Georgia Camilla Riot of 1868
1870: Eutaw, Alabama Eutaw Riot of 1870
1870: June Alamance, N.C. Kirk-Holden War
1870: October 20 Laurens, SC Laurens County Riot
1871: March Meridian, MS Meridian Race Riot
1872: Louisiana
1873: April 13 Colfax, LA Colfax Massacre
1874: July 29 Vicksburg, MS Vicksburg Riot of 1874
1874: September 14 New Orleans, LA Liberty Place Riot
1874: August Coushatta, Louisiana Coushatta Massacre
1874: November 3 Eufaula, Alabama Election Riot of 1874
1875: September 1 Yazoo City, MS Yazoo City Race Riot of 1875
1875: September 4 Clinton, Mississippi The Clinton Riot
1876: July 4 Hamburg, SC Hamburg Massacre
1884: Cincinnati, Ohio
1891: October 18 Omaha, NE Omaha riot of
1898: October 12 Virden, IL Virden Massacre
1898: November Wilmington, NC Wilmington Insurrection of 1898
1898: February 22 Lake City, South Carolina Lake City Mob
1898: November 9-14 Greenwood County, S.C. Phoenix Election Riot
1899: April 23 Coweta, GA Lynching of Sam Hose
1899: September 19 Carterville, IL






Race Riots of the 1900's
1900: July 23- 27 New Orleans, LA Robert Charles Riots
1900: August 13- 17 New York City, NY New York City Race Riot
1901: August Pierce City, MO Pierce Riot
1903: April Joplin, MO
1903: July Boston, MA
1904: March Springfield, OH
1906: January Chattanooga, TN
1906: April 14 Springfield, MO
1906: April Greensburg, IN
1906: August 13-14 Brownsville, TX Brownsville Raid of 1906
1906: September 22-24 Atlanta, GA Atlanta Race Riot of 1906
1907: August 10 Onancock, VA Onancock Race Riot 1907
1908: August 14 Springfield, IL Springfield Race Riot of 1908
1910: July 4 Nationwide
1910: July Palestine, TX
1916: May 15 Waco, TX Jesse Washington
1917: May 28. July 2. St.Louis, MO East St. Louis Riot
1917: July 31-August 4 Chester, PA Chester Race Riot
1917: August 23. Houston, TX Houston Riots
1917: New York City, NY
1917: September 1 Lexington, KY Race Riot of 1917
1917: Chicago, IL
1917: Youngstown, Ohio
1918: May 16-23 Valdosta, GA
1918: July 26 Philadelphia, PA Race Riot of 1918
1918: August 18 Camp Merritt, NJ
1918: Dewey, Oklahoma 


Red Summer Riots of 1919
1919: July 19-23. Washington, D.C.
1919: September 25-28. Omaha, Nebraska
1919: May 10 Charleston, South Carolina
1919: May 25 Milan, Georgia
1919: July 10 Longview, Texas
1919: August 30 Knoxville, Tennessee
1919: August 21, September 16. New York City, New York
1919: August 27-28. Laurens County, Georgia
1919: October 1 Elaine, Arkansas
1919: June 13 New London, Connecticut
1919: July 3 Bisbee, Arizona
1919: April 13 Millen, Georgia
1919: July 7. July 31. Philadelphia, Penn
1919: July 15 Port Arthur, Texas
1919: July 21 Norfolk, Virginia
1919: Argo, Illinois
1919: July 31 Syracuse, New York
1919: Ocmulgee, Georgia
1919: Mid Aug/Sep. Baltimore, Maryland
1919: November 13-1. Wilmington, Delaware
1919: Waukegan, Illinois
1919: August 5 Lexington, Nebraska
1919: August 18 Mulberry, Florida
1919: July 27- August 3 Chicago, Illinois
1919: October 4-5 Gary Indiana.
1919: October 9 Donora, Pennsylvania
1919: October 10 Hubbard, Ohio
1919: October 30 Corbin, Kentucky
1919: November 22 Bogalusa, Louisiana.
1919: May 10 Sylvester, Georgia.
1919: May 29 Putnam, Georgia
1919: 31 May Monticello, Mississippi
1919: 13 June Memphis, Tennessee
1919: June 27 Macon, Mississippi.
1919: June 27 Annapolis, Maryland.
1919: July 5 Scranton, Pennsylvania
1919: July 6 Dublin, Georgia
1919: July 8 Coatesville, Pennsylvania
1919: July 9 Tuscaloosa, Alabama
1919: July 11 Baltimore, Maryland
1919: July 23 New Orleans, Louisiana
1919: July 23 Darby, Pennsylvania
1919: July 26 Hobson City, Alabama
1919: July 28 Newberry, South Carolina
1919: July 31 Bloomington, Illinois
1919: August 4 Hattiesburg, Mississippi
1919. August 6 Texarkana, Texas
1919: August 29 Ocgulmee, Georgia
1920: Chicago, Illinois
1921: May 30- June 1. Tulsa, OK Black Wall Street Massacre
1922. May 6, June 9 Kirven, Texas
1923: January 1. Rosewood, FL Rosewood Massacre
1930: October 12-15 Sainte Genevieve, MO
1931: March Scottsboro, AL
1935: March 19 Harlem, NY Harlem Riot of 1935
1943: May Mobile, AL
1943: June Los Angeles, CA Zoot Suit Riot
1943: June 15-16 Beaumont, TX Beaumont Race Riot
1943: June 20 Detroit, MI Detroit Race Riot
1943: August 1 Harlem, NY Harlem Riot of 1943
1949: August-September Peekskill, NY
1951: July 11-12 Cicero County, IL Cicero Race Riot
1958: Maxton, NC Battle of Hayes Pond
1959: February Pearl River County, MS
1960: April Biloxi Beach, MS
1962: October Oxford, MS Uni of Mississippi
1963: September 30. Oxford, MS Ole Miss Riot
1963: July 11 Cambridge, MD Cambridge riot of 1963 1963: May 13 Birmingham, AL Birmingham Bombings
1964: July Brooklyn, NY
1964: July 18 Harlem, NY Harlem Riot of 1964
1964: July 24-26 Rochester, NY Rochester Riot
1964: August Jersey City, NJ
1964: August Paterson, NJ
1964: August Elizabeth, NJ
1964: August Chicago, IL
1964: August 28 Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia 1964 race riot
1965: March 7 Selma, AL Bloody Sunday
1965: July Springfield, MA
1965: August 11-17 Los Angeles, CA Watts Riot
1966: July 18 Cleveland, Ohio Hough Riots
1966: July 4 Omaha, NE
1966: September Dayton, OH
1966: September San Francisco, CA Hunter's Point
1967: June Atlanta, GA
1967: June 6 Boston, MA
1967: June 11 Tampa, FL Tampa Riot
1967: May 22 Houston, TX Texas Southern University Riot 1967: July 22 Detroit, MI Detroit Riot
1967: June 26- July 1 Buffalo, NY Buffalo Riot
1967: July 30 Milwaukee, WI Milwaukee Riot
1967: July 21 Minneapolis, MN Minneapolis North Side Riots
1967: July 12-17 Newark, NJ Newark Riots
1967: July 16 Plainfield, NJ Plainfield Riot
1967: July 24 Cambridge, MD Second Cambridge Race Riot
1967: June 11-16 Cincinnati, OH Avondale Riot
1967: July Newark, NJ
1967: July Detroit, MI
1967: Birmingham, AL
1967: Chicago, IL
1967: New Britain, CT
1967 Rochester, NY
1968: February 8 Orangeburg, SC Orangeburg massacre
1968: April Nationwide riots Assassination of MLK 1969: June 24 Omaha, Nebraska
1969: Camden, NJ
1969: July 17 York, PA York Race Riot
1969: June 28 New York City, NY Stonewall Riots
1970: May 11 Augusta, GA  1970: May 5 Jackson, MS Jackson State killings
1970: July 4 Ashbury Park, NJ Ashbury Park Riots
1970: July New Bedford, MA
1971: Camden, NJ Camden Riots
1972-1977: Pensacola, FL Escambia High School Riots
1975-76: Boston, MA Anti-Busing Riots
1980: May 18 Miami, Florida Miami Riots
1980: July 24 Chattanooga, TN Chattanooga Riot
1984: August 8 Lawrence, MA Lawrence Race Riot
1986: December Howard Beach, NY
1987: February 20 Tampa, FL Tampa Riots
1989: February 1 Tampa, FL Tampa Riots
1989: August Bensonhurst, NY
1991: August 19 Brooklyn, NY Crown Heights riot
1992: April 29 Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles Riots
1996: October 24-26 Petersburg, FA St. Petersburg Riots
1998: June Jasper, TX Lynching
2001: Cincinnati, OH Police Riots









 




























 





 

 




 





















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