Massacres Denied Part IV: Killing the Vote

Most BlackAfrican Americans are familiar with the statement, “people died for your right to vote,” yet they don’t really know how true the words are. This year’s rapt attention on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has awakened America to its sordid past, but there are hundreds of well-documented massacres of Black/African Americans throughout this nation’s history. In this fourth and final part in their series Massacres Denied, Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square, her niece, relate stories of massacres committed because people simply tried to exercise their right to vote. Want more, take our course Systemic Racism: See it, Say it, Confront it at www.whyaretheysoangry.com and find us anywhere at www.podpage.com.whyaretheysoangry

Citations

“A Very Abbreviated History of the Destruction of Black Neighborhoods,” Gabrielle Bruney, Esquire, May 30, 2020, https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a32719786/george-floyd-protests-riots-black-comminity-destruction-history/?fbclid=IwAR07n6A4UKPIlh-K2MTkNr1pB6blIe3aMNBwt0uew_MDrVRV2bLVHyMt-ss

“Burned from the land: How 60 years of racial violence shaped America,” Channon Hodge, Breeanna Hare, Tami Luhby, Elias Goodstein, Priya Krishnakumar, Nadia Lancy, Toby Lyles, Amy Roberts and Clint Alwahab, CNN, May 30, 2021.

Camilla, GA: Political Rally and Massacre — BLACK and Education

Civil Unrest in Camilla, Georgia, 1868, Letters, Affidavits, Reports., Proceedings, Newspaper Clippings, http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/camilla/toc.php

Fourteen states have enacted 22 new laws making it harder to vote

Texas Senate Passes One of the Nation’s Strictest Voting Bills

Voting Laws Roundup: May 2021