Atlanta Race Riot

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The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 was a mass civil disturbance in Atlanta, Georgia, USA which began the evening of September 22nd and lasted until September 25th. At least 27 people died^[1] and over seventy were injured.

The riot was sparked by unsubstantiated rumours of black men attacking white women. In response, thousands of whites attacked and killed black men, women, and children in the downtown Atlanta area. The official death count was 12 blacks and two whites, but it has been claimed the real death toll was much higher^{[citation needed]} as Atlanta authorities did not want to further damage the reputation of the city. Walter Francis White, later executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People gave an eye-witness account of a mob beating a lame bootblack to death.

The riot was reported in newspapers around the world but has not been taught in schools in the United States, and those who died have not been officially commemorated.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] External links

• Defending Home and Hearth: Walter White Recalls the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot
• NPR: Atlanta Race Riot
• Atlanta Race Riot - The Coalition to Remember the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot
• Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 - Article in The New Georgia Encyclopedia
• Rage in the Gate City - The online home for the book on the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot by Rebecca Burns

[edit] References

• Bauerlein, Mark (2001). Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906. San Francisco: Encounter Books. ISBN 1-893554-54-6. 

• Burns, Rebecca (2006). Rage in the Gate City: The Story of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot. Emmis Books. ISBN 1-57860-268-8. 

• Godshalk, David Fort (2006). Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations. The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-5626-6. 
• Mixon, Gregory (2005). The Atlanta Riot: Race, Class, And Violence In A New South City. University Press of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-2787-X.