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Let's take a look back at history -- Houston riots of 1917
Posted on 8/28/14 at 9:07 am
Posted on 8/28/14 at 9:07 am
I had no idea this happened. Pretty interesting if you're into history as I am
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On August 23, 1917, a riot erupted in Houston. Near noon, two policemen arrested a black soldier for interfering with their arrest of a black woman in the Fourth Ward.
Early in the afternoon, when Cpl. Charles Baltimore, one of the twelve black military policemen with the battalion, inquired about the soldier's arrest, words were exchanged and the policeman hit Baltimore over the head. The MPs fled. The police fired at Baltimore three times, chased him into an unoccupied house, and took him to police headquarters.
Though he was soon released, a rumor quickly reached Camp Logan that he had been shot and killed. A group of soldiers decided to march on the police station in the Fourth Ward and secure his release. If the police could assault a model soldier like Baltimore, they reasoned, none of them was safe from abuse. Maj. Kneeland S. Snow, battalion commander, initially discounted the news of impending trouble.
Around 8 P.M. Sgt. Vida Henry of I Company confirmed the rumors, and Kneeland ordered the first sergeants to collect all rifles and search the camp for loose ammunition. During this process, a soldier suddenly screamed that a white mob was approaching the camp. Black soldiers rushed into the supply tents, grabbed rifles, and began firing wildly in the direction of supposed mob.
The white officers found it impossible to restore order. Sergeant Henry led over 100 armed soldiers toward downtown Houston by way of Brunner Avenue and San Felipe Street and into the Fourth Ward. In their two-hour march on the city, the mutinous blacks killed fifteen whites, including four policemen, and seriously wounded twelve others, one of whom, a policeman, subsequently died. Four black soldiers also died. Two were accidentally shot by their own men, one in camp and the other on San Felipe Street.
After they had killed Capt. Joseph Mattes of the Illinois National Guard, obviously mistaking him for a policeman, the blacks began quarreling over a course of action. After two hours, Henry advised the men to slip back into camp in the darkness—and shot himself in the head.
Posted on 8/28/14 at 9:14 am to droman225
yep - Camp Logan was where Memorial Park is now.
Posted on 8/28/14 at 9:16 am to droman225
Yea I dont feel like getting banned so will keep thoughts to self.
Posted on 8/28/14 at 9:21 am to droman225
If. You want to educate yourself, you can find tons of stories from our country's past that show how fcking pathetic people can be.
It's why I always get a chuckle when people complain about how bad our society and country is these days.
We are far better now than we have ever been.
It's why I always get a chuckle when people complain about how bad our society and country is these days.
We are far better now than we have ever been.
Posted on 8/28/14 at 9:22 am to GREENHEAD22
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Yea I dont feel like getting banned so will keep thoughts to self.
This happened in 1917, not 2014. You don't think blacks had a right to be miserable back then?
Posted on 8/28/14 at 9:26 am to droman225
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next morning, August 24, civil authorities imposed a curfew in Houston. On the twenty-fifth, the army hustled the Third Battalion aboard a train to Columbus, New Mexico. There, seven black mutineers agreed to testify against the others in exchange for clemency. Between November 1, 1917, and March 26, 1918, the army held three separate courts-martial in the chapel at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. The military tribunals indicted 118 enlisted men of I Company for participating in the mutiny and riot, and found 110 guilty. It was wartime, and the sentences were harsh. Nineteen mutinous soldiers were hanged and sixty-three received life sentences in federal prison. One was judged incompetent to stand trial. Two white officers faced courts-martial, but they were released. No white civilians were brought to trial. The Houston Riot of 1917 was one of the saddest chapters in the history of American race relations. It vividly illustrated the problems that the nation struggled with on the home front during wartime.
So they started a riot over a soldier who was detained and released?
I had never heard this, it's crazy. Texas history has some interesting skirmishes.
Posted on 8/28/14 at 9:28 am to droman225
There were also race riots in Chicago in 1919 that seemed fairly avoidable.
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They were separated by a line unseen and a law unwritten: The 29th Street beach was for whites, the 25th Street beach for blacks. An invisible boundary stretched from the sand into Lake Michigan, parting the races like Moses' staff parted the Red Sea. On this stifling hot summer Sunday, Eugene Williams, a black teenager, drifted south of that line while swimming with friends. Whites picked up rocks and let fly. Some accounts say Williams was hit on the head and went under. Others say he became tired and was too afraid to come ashore. Either way, he drowned, touching off the deadliest episode of racial violence in Chicago history.
For five days it raged, mostly on the South Side. White mobs attacked isolated blacks. Blacks attacked isolated whites. John Mills, a black Stockyards worker, was riding home when a mob stopped his streetcar and beat him to death. Casmero Lazeroni, a white peddler, was pulled from his horse-drawn wagon and stabbed to death. Thirty-eight people died--23 blacks and 15 whites. By the time the National Guard and a rainstorm brought the riots to an end, more than 500 people had been injured, wounded blacks outnumbering whites by a ratio of about 2-1
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