Racial Tensions

By: Josh,Zekori,Caleb,Reggie

Racial Tension

• In the 1920’s racial tension had a huge effect on African Americans and how they were treated way differently then whites.

• Definition of Racial Tension- Racial tension is an animosity or dislike between two or more racial groups.

Marcus Garvey

• In 1916, Marcus Garvey had a Universal Negro Improvement Association. Garvey’s organization helped Africans have self –respect for other Africans and it helped establish other black owned businesses. Garvey also preached racial equality at time many openly embraced the inferiority of racial minorities.

KU KLUX KLANThe KKK was first founded in 1866. Then later came into the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The kkk was a horrible group they had a hate rage for African- Americans which included bombings of black schools and churches and violence against black and white activists in the South. And at least 10 percent of the black legislators that where elected during the 1867-1868 constitutional conventions became victims of violence during the Reconstruction, including seven who were killed. Another key group where the White Republicans who where known as the carpetbaggers and scalawags, which interfered whit bombings of black schools and churches

Rosewood massacre• A racially motivated attack on African Americans and

neighborhood committed by a white mob in Florida January 1-7, 1923. At least six African Americans and two whites were killed in the ensuing violence. Florida had an especially high number of lynchings in the years before the massacre; the great majority of victims were black males. Among these was what was known in the white community as the Perry race riot in December 1922, in which a black man was burned at the stake.

Detroit race riots• The Detroit race riot broke out in Detroit, Michigan, in June

1943, and lasted for three days before Federal troops regained control. The rioting between blacks and whites began on Belle Isle on June 20, 1943, and continued until June 22, killing 34, wounding 433, and destroying property valued at $2 million.

• Detroit, like many places in the United States, has a very long history of racial discrimination. By the 1920s the city had become a stronghold of the Ku Klux Klan and the Black Legion, organizations committed to white supremacy.

Sources

• www.apstudynotes.org/us-history/topics/social-tensions/

• www1.assumption.edu/ahc/raceriots/