During the Race Riot, a mob of white residents murdered at least six Black Americans, burned Black homes and businesses and attacked hundreds of residents for no other reason than the color of their skin. In the aftermath of the riot, the NAACP was formed.
During the Race Riot, a mob of white residents murdered at least six Black Americans, burned Black homes and businesses and attacked hundreds of residents for no other reason than the color of their skin. In the aftermath of the riot, the NAACP was formed.
The aftermath of the 1908 Race Riot in Springfield gave rise to the formation of the NAACP.
Dr. Wesley Robinson-McNeese recalled a scene where he was swimming with some Air Force buddies in the waters off Biloxi Beach in Mississippi in the late 1960s.
A stranger pulled up in a pickup truck and, producing a shotgun and hurling epithets, promised that he was going to blow away McNeese, who is Black, if he didn t get out of the water. My friends said, Wes, you’re a soldier, you don’t have to do that, McNeese remembered. I said, He’s not aiming the shotgun at you guys. He’s aiming it at me.