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"In a series of street battles waged for twenty-four hours…by more than five thousand white and colored men…scores were seriously injured in the most terrific and bitter race riot that has ever taken place in this city."
White violence and Black protests during the 1918 flu have a lesson for today Adella Bond fired her revolver outside her window into the South Philadelphia air, hoping to attract police as a mob of Irish American people gathered around her home to tell her she wasn’t welcome. Bond, a Black woman who was a municipal court probation officer, knew that racial conflicts unfolded in neighborhoods that had once belonged to only White people but were beginning to house Black people as they migrated from the South to the North during the Great Migration, said Kenneth Finkel, a professor in the depa...