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Zinn Education Project
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"Pull a standard U.S. history textbook off the shelf and you’re unlikely to find more than a paragraph on the 1919 riots; what you do find downplays both racism and Black resistance, while distorting facts in a dangerous 'both sides' framing." Read more ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-o...

zinnedproject.orgRemembering Red Summer — Which Textbooks Seem Eager to ForgetBy Ursula Wolfe-Rocca Confronting a national epidemic of white mob violence, 1919 was a time when Black people defended themselves, fought back, and demanded full citizenship in thousands of acts of c...
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

I think today's liberals in the US are used to a social environment where pogroms are rare and don't realize the role armed self defense plays in that state of affairs www.history.com/articles/red...

history.comRed Summer of 1919: How Black WWI Vets Fought Back Against Racist Mobs | HISTORYWhen dozens of brutal race riots erupted across the U.S. in the wake of World War I and the Great Migration, black ve...

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Zinn Education Project
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"The primary cause of the Houston riot was the habitual brutality of the white police officers of Houston in their treatment of colored people." — The Crisis Magazine, November 1917 Read more ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bl...

zinnedproject.orgDec. 11, 1917: Black Soldiers Executed for Houston Riot“The primary cause of the Houston riot was the habitual brutality of the white police officers of Houston in their treatment of colored people.” —The Crisis magazine.
moreacomment.bsky.social
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What suddenly strikes as a fascinating parallel is the formation of the Haganah at exactly the same time, in exactly the same context - a group victimized by pogroms, finding a core of self-defense based on WWI vets. Wonder if the parallel was noted already.