Atlanta's image challenged by facts of 1906 race massacre

[Judi Lynn]

By MICHAEL WARREN, Associated Press - 4h ago

ATLANTA (AP) — Everyone who moves through downtown Atlanta today passes places where innocent Black men and women were pulled from trolleys, shot in their workplaces, chased through the streets and beaten to death by a mob of 10,000 white men and boys.

But few have been taught about the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre, which shaped the city’s geography, economy, society and power structure in lasting ways. Much like the Red Summer of 1919 in the South and Northeast and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 in Oklahoma would years later, the white-on-Black violence in Atlanta shattered dreams of racial harmony and forced thousands from their homes.

A grassroots coalition is working to restore Atlanta's killings and their legacy to public memory. Historic markers and tours are planned for this September's anniversary. A one-act play will be performed simultaneously at group dinners across the city. Organizers are seeking 500 hosts, with the ambitious goal of seating 5,000 people to discuss the lasting effects.

These activists say the massacre doesn't fit comfortably in Atlanta's “cradle of the civil rights movement” narrative, but they insist on truth-telling as some politicians push to ignore the nation's history of racial violence.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/atlanta-s-image-challenged-by-1906-race-massacre/vi-AA10fr7P

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[RussBLib]

1. It's no wonder the GOP wants to suppress history

....especially the kind of history that makes white people look pretty bad.

I wonder if we will ever have a full accounting of the barbarities whites inflicted on blacks, before and after the Civil War?

As a white guy, it makes me sad, and a little angry, to discover this kind of stuff, but it does not make me hate white people.

[Martin68]

2. "Cradle of the Civil Rights movement?" LOL! More like the biggest target of the

Civil Rights movement because Georgia was one of the worst actors during the Jim Crow era and later.