1906 Atlanta race massacre
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Violent attacks by armed mobs of White Americans against Black Americans in Atlanta, Georgia, began after newspapers, on the evening of September 22, 1906, published several unsubstantiated and luridl
Front page of French newspaper Le Petit Journal on Oct. 7, 1906, featuring an illustration of the Atlanta race riot
Le Petit Journal 7 Oct 1906
The nadir of American race relations is a historical period defined by historian Rayford Logan as the worst time for race relations in the United States after the Civil War ended slavery. It overlappe
1906 Atlanta race massacre
…1906 Atlanta race massacre Part of the Nadir of American race relations Front page of French newspaper Le Petit Journal on Oct. 7, 1906, featuring an illustration of the Atlanta race riot Location Atlanta, Georgia Date…
Ku Klux Klan on parade in Springfield, Ohio, in 1923
"And Not This Man?", Harper's Weekly, August 5, 1865. Thomas Nast drew this cartoon; in 1865 he, like many Northerners, remembered Black people's military service and favored granting them voting rights.
"Colored Rule in a Reconstructed(?) State", Harper's Weekly, March 14, 1874. Nine years later, Nast's views on race had changed. He caricatured black legislators as aggressive buffoons.
A quote from Woodrow Wilson used in The Birth of a Nation