February 23rd, 2012
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Booklet, 6-1/2” x 9-1/2,” 30pp., self covering, “The Atlanta Riot, Ray Stannard Baker.” A wet stamp on the cover indicates who is distributing this piece, “Committee of Twelve, For The Advancement of the Interests of the Negro Race, Cheyney, Pa.” the booklet tells the story and has several associated photographs. The Atlanta Riot of 1906 followed a race-baiting gubernatorial campaign and newspaper reports alleging an “epidemic of rape” that exacerbated white fears of black social and economic empowerment. On the evening of September 22, a white mob of 10,000 rampaged through the black business district. The violence soon spread to Brownsville, a middle-class black suburb. With the police and state militia aiding the mob, more than one thousand black residents fled the city. The riot lasted five nights, killing at least twenty-seven, injuring hundreds, and destroying black-owned property.
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