• ComradeSharkfucker
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    16 days ago

    I took an african american history course last semester. This isn’t even half of it. Maybe not even a quarter. Hell its certain there are many we don’t even know about. Some of the cities on this map had far more than one.

  • @UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works
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    4016 days ago

    Ocoee 1920 - "The bloodiest election in modern American history”

    Was when a group a African-American land owners tried to vote, but a certain racist white group stopped them at the polls.

    In Ocoee the Klan began threatening the Black community three weeks before the 1920 election, claiming that “not a single Negro would be permitted to vote.” Moreover, the Florida Klan’s grand master sent a letter to two local Republican officials, threatening to retaliate if Black and white officials continued instructing local African Americans on how to cast ballots and pay poll taxes. “We shall always enjoy WHITE SUPREMACY in this country,” the letter read, “and he who interferes must face the consequences.”

    After some African American men still tried to vote, got turned away, then came back later to get the suppressors names like an Orlando judge advised them to do, the white people went full KKK and started killing up to 60 African-Americans and burning thier prominent buildings. The deceased had their bodies torn apart for ‘trophies’. The surviving African-Americans were forced out if they didnt leave on thier own will

    The one upside is 2 Klan members were killed during.

    Still absolutely vile though

    For more information

  • @PunnyName@lemmy.world
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston_church_shooting

    An anti-black mass shooting and hate crime occurred on June 17, 2015, in Charleston, South Carolina. Nine people were killed, and one was injured, during a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest black church in the Southern United States. Among the fatalities was the senior pastor, state senator Clementa C. Pinckney. All ten victims were African Americans. At the time, it was the deadliest mass shooting at a place of worship in U.S. history, until the Sutherland Springs church shooting in 2017.

  • @funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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    atlanta 1906

    following a KKK musical tour (not a joke) and lurid newspaper reports of black men raping white women, 15,000 white people marched through Five Points, Atlanta, killing every black person they could find and smashing up black owned businesses

    30 killed and 90 injured by official reports but some think it was way more.

  • Match!!
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    2115 days ago

    Philadelphia 1985, that’d be the MOVE bombing where the Philly police fucking airbombed a residential apartment block to kill a black liberation group (MOVE)

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    2115 days ago

    Tulsa race massacre of 1921 is/was a well-kept secret. It was horrific. I live in Tulsa and I’d bet 20% of the citizenry knows about it.

    • @mad_lentil@lemmy.ca
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      415 days ago

      It’s terrifying how effectively that particular massacre was covered up. Makes you wonder what else we’re missing.

  • @secretvaporeon@lemm.ee
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    Wilmington NC is the site of the only successful white supremacist coup de tat in the US where the mayor was forced to resign by mob and power handed to the supremacists.

  • @Little8Lost@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    The earliest on this graph is 2015 O.O
    Gonna look that up

    Edit: it was a white supremracist that targeted black people in a church, killed 9 and injured another

      • @lud@lemm.ee
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        Nah, there are absolutely some people that are worse than others.

        All racists are obviously horrible but this is on a whole other level.