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In the fury's wake, white supremacists overthrew the city government, expelling black and white officeholders, and instituted restrictions to prevent blacks from voting. In Atlanta in 1906, newspaper accounts alleging attacks by black men on white women provoked an outburst of shooting and killing that left twelve blacks dead and seventy injured.
A White gang looking for Black people during the Chicago race riot of 1919. Throughout this period, racial tensions exploded, most violently in Chicago, and lynchings—mob-directed hangings, usually racially motivated—increased dramatically in the 1920s. Urban riots—Whites attacking Blacks—became a northern and western problem. [51]
Racial segregation in basketball lasted until 1950 when the NBA became racially integrated. [69] White tenants seeking to prevent Blacks from moving into the housing project erected this sign. Detroit, 1942. Many U.S. states banned interracial marriage, with Maryland passing the first anti-miscegenation law in 1691. [70]
Black children raised in highly segregated communities of color make $4,000 less per year than Black children raised in white neighborhoods, and $1,000 less than those raised in integrated ...
In 1940, Benjamin O. Davis Sr. became the first Black person to achieve the rank of brigadier general in the US Army. His son, Benjamin O. Davis Jr., later commanded the famed Tuskegee Airmen. In ...
Areas with housing segregation had worse health outcomes for both whites and Blacks. [63] Residential segregation accounts for a substantial share of the Black-white gap in birth weight. [64] Segregation reduced upward economic mobility. [65] White communities are more likely to have strict land use regulations (and whites are more likely to ...
Segregation lowered homeownership rates for both blacks and whites [20] and boosted crime rates. [21] Areas with housing segregation had worse health outcomes for both whites and blacks. [22] Residential segregation accounts for a substantial share of the black-white gap in birth weight. [23] Segregation reduced upward economic mobility. [24]
The Black Codes, sometimes called the Black Laws, were laws which governed the conduct of African Americans (both free and freedmen).In 1832, James Kent wrote that "in most of the United States, there is a distinction in respect to political privileges, between free white persons and free colored persons of African blood; and in no part of the country do the latter, in point of fact ...