#Springfield Race Riot

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Carlee Bronkema at WAND:

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - President Joe Biden announced his plans to formally designate the site of the 1908 Springfield Race Riot as a national monument using his authority through the Antiquities Act.  The monument will be located at the uncovered site of the race riot. This announcement comes after several actions by community members and organizations to push for national recognition of the site. 

[...] The monument will have national impacts as well, as it is the first time the site of a lynching has been memorialized, according to Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13). She says it's important that we recognize the bad parts of our history. 

[...] During the 1908 Springfield Race Riot, a mob of white residents attacked Springfield’s Black community, burning down homes and businesses and attacking hundreds of residents. Following the riot, the NAACP was formed. During an excavation as part of the Springfield Rail Improvements project, foundations and artifacts from homes destroyed during the riot were uncovered. An agreement with community members was reached in 2018 to excavate the remains and designate the uncovered site a memorial. Budzinski was the lead of the bipartisan 1908 Race Riot National Monument Act with Congressman Darin LaHood. Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth lead companion legislation in the U.S. Senate. In December of 2023, Budzinski sent a letter to President Biden asking him to use his authority under the Antiquities Act to designate the site as a national monument. 

The Biden Administration has made the site of the 1908 Springfield Race Riot in Springfield, Illinois a national monument, 116 years after the anti-Black race riot occurred.

The Springfield Race Riot spawned the creation of the NAACP.

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I am so fucking pissed right now.

It wasn’t enough that deranged old man known as Donald Trump repeated Laura Loomer’s (one of her MAGA cultists who even MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE called out. Let that sink it) fucked up lies about Haitian Immigrants eating animals (the officials came out and said it was bullshit) but JD Vance repeated them and as a result the schools in Springfield Ohio have been evacuated, the government has been shut down and two of their hospitals have been shut down due to BOMB THREATS.

All this because Trump’s pathetic, washed up, Epstein Files 34 Convicted Felon ass can’t handle Kamala’s popularity going up DAILY along with her owning her.

Ordinarily, I laugh at his stupidity but this is NO laughing matter. Because of his lies, the KKK and the Proud Boys were parading around Springfield repeating racist, hateful rhetoric. If you all remember, this is NO different from the hate crimes Asian Americans suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic because of him referring to it as the “China Virus” along with the hatred Mexican immigrants got because of the disgusting dribble he said back in 2016.

And the icing on the cake? He offered NO apologies about this and doubled down on it. And as far as I’m concerned, if any Haitian gets hurt or or worse, KILLED; him, JD Vance and that Laura Loomer cunt (who had the balls on Twitter last night to call it a “joke”) ALL should go to jail for slander, defamation and inciting destruction. Because they KNEW what they said were lies and they did it to cause race riots.

I will say; if you in anyway like or support Donald Trump or MAGA; UNFOLLOW AND BLOCK ME. I wanted nothing to do with him or his fans already after January 6th but after last night? I REALLY want nothing to do with that group. ESPECIALLY since this is the THIRD DAY of Ohio being terrorized because of him.

And as for that Erika Lee bitch, she should charged too. She KNEW the ramifications of what she said and how MAGA would react and she did it anyways. Her having a biracial child and her being biracial does NOT absolve her in ANY WAY for the damage and destruction she caused and her “apology” means nothing since the damage has been done.

One more thing, for the vocal minority of people who are bitching about Democrats and Palestine Genocide, guess what? Kamala is vocal about helping mend that genocide whereas Trump is bloodthirsty and on a witch hunt and if we don’t get her, we get his demented, dementia riddled, rapist ass. So not only will the Palestine Genocide get WORSE with Trump; America will turn even MORE into a hell hole. ESPECIALLY with all the Christian Nationalists he aligns himself with.

For those sick and tired of Trump and his MAGA Cult, PLEASE VOTE BLUE all the way across the board because if Trump gets in, he’s not leaving office until he dies.

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Had an idea I was developing about how bomb threats are basically the modern American version of the pogrom/race riot but now the Proud Boys are marching in Springfield so hey maybe we might just have straightforward personal racial violence.

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In 1903, one of America''''s most monumental literary works of African Americans "The Souls of Black Folks" was published by W.E.B Du Bois.

W.E.B. Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Du Bois was a historian, civil rights activist, sociologist, author, editor, and Pan-Africanist. In 1909 he was also one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). On February 12, 1909, in response to a race riot in Springfield, Illinois, and the horrific acts that were being done against African Americans, a little over 50 white liberals and 7 African Americans met to discuss the racial crisis. Out of this meeting came the existence of the NAACP. Some of the African Americans in attendance were W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Mary Church Terrell. Among the white liberals at the meeting were Mary White Ovington and Oswald Garrison Villard, The organization continued the focus of the Niagara Movement which was the precursor to (NAACP).

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1961 May First Freedom Ride. 1962 Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited (HARYOU) is founded. Robert F. Williams publishes Negroes with Guns, exploring Williams’ philosophy of black self-defense. October Two die in riots when President John F. Kennedy sends troops to Oxford,Mississippi, to allow James Meredith to become the first African American student to register for classes at the University of Mississippi. 1963 Publication of The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin. Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) is founded. April Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., writes his ‘‘Letter from Birmingham Jail.’’

June Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is assassinated in Mississippi. August March on Washington; Rev. King delivers his ‘‘I Have a Dream’’ speech before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

September Four African American girls—Carol Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins—are killed when a bomb explodes at theSixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. 1964 June–August Three Freedom Summer activists—James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner—are arrested in Philadelphia, Mississippi; their bodies are discovered six weeks later; white resistance to Freedom Summer activities leads to six deaths, numerous injuries and arrests, and property damage acrossMississippi. July President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act. New York City (Harlem) riot. Rochester, New York, riot. Brooklyn, New York, riot. August Riots in Jersey City, Paterson, and Elizabeth, New Jersey. Chicago, Illinois, riot. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, riot. 1965 February While participating in a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Jimmie Lee Jackson is shot by an Alabama state trooper. Malcolm X is assassinated while speaking in New York City. March Bloody Sunday march ends with civil rights marchers attacked and beaten by local lawmen at the Edmund Pettus Bridge outside Selma, Alabama. Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO) is formed in Lowndes County,Alabama. First distribution of The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, better known as The Moynihan Report, which was written by Undersecretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Nathan Glazer. July Springfield, Massachusetts, riot. August Los Angeles (Watts), California, riot. 1965–1967 A series of northern urban riots occurring during these years, including disorders in the Watts section of Los Angeles, California (1965), Newark, New Jersey (1967), and Detroit, Michigan (1967), becomes known as the Long Hot Summer Riots. 1966 May Stokely Carmichael elected national director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). June James Meredith is wounded by a sniper while walking from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi; Meredith’s March Against Fear is taken up by Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and others. July Cleveland, Ohio, riot. Murder of civil rights demonstrator Clarence Triggs in Bogalusa, Louisiana. September Dayton, Ohio, riot. San Francisco (Hunters Point), California, riot. October Black Panther Party (BPP) founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. 1967

Publication of Black Power: The Politics of Liberation by Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton. May Civil rights worker Benjamin Brown is shot in the back during a student protest in Jackson, Mississippi. H. Rap Brown succeeds Stokely Carmichael as national director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Texas Southern University riot (Houston, Texas). June Atlanta, Georgia, riot. Buffalo, New York, riot. Cincinnati, Ohio, riot. Boston, Massachusetts, riot. July Detroit, Michigan, riot. Newark, New Jersey, riot. 1968 Publication of Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver. February During the so-called Orangeburg, South Carolina Massacre, three black college students are killed and twenty-seven others are injured in a confrontation with police on the adjoining campuses of South Carolina State College and Claflin College. March Kerner Commission Report is published. April Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968. Washington, D.C., riot. Cincinnati, Ohio, riot. August Antiwar protestors disrupt the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. 1969 May James Forman of the SNCC reads his Black Manifesto, which calls for monetary reparations for the crime of slavery, to the congregation of Riverside Church in New York; many in the congregation walk out in protest. July York, Pennsylvania, riot. 1970 May Two unarmed black students are shot and killed by police attempting to control civil rights demonstrators at Jackson State University in Mississippi. Augusta, Georgia, riot. July New Bedford, Massachusetts, riot. Asbury Park, New Jersey, riot. 1973 July So-called Dallas Disturbance results from community anger over the murder of a twelve-year-old Mexican-American boy by a Dallas police officer. 1975–1976 A series of antibusing riots rock Boston, Massachusetts, with the violence reaching a climax in April 1976. 1976 February Pensacola, Florida, riot. 1980 May Miami, Florida, riot. 1981 March Michael Donald, a black man, is beaten and murdered by Ku Klux Klan members in Mobile, Alabama. 1982 December Miami, Florida, riot. 1985 May Philadelphia police drop a bomb on MOVE headquarters, thereby starting a fire that consumed a city block. 1986 December Three black men are beaten and chased by a gang of white teenagers in Howard Beach, New York; one of the victims of the so-called Howard Beach Incident is killed while trying to flee from his attackers. 1987 February–April Tampa, Florida, riots. 1989 Release of Spike Lee’s film, Do the Right Thing. Representative John Conyers introduces the first reparations bill into Congress—the Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act; this and all subsequent reparations measures fail passage. August Murder of Yusef Hawkins, an African American student killed by Italian-American youths in Bensonhurst, New York. 1991 March Shooting in Los Angeles of an African American girl, fifteen-year-old Latasha Harlins, by a Korean woman who accused the girl of stealing. Los Angeles police officers are caught on videotape beating African American motorist Rodney King. 1992 April Los Angeles (Rodney King), California, riot. 1994 Survivors of the Rosewood, Florida, riot of 1923 receive reparations. February Standing trial for a third time, Byron de la Beckwith is convicted of murdering civil rights worker Medgar Evers in June 1963.

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The story of the Hopewell school is one of many told in “A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools That Changed America,” on view at the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin through February 23. The poignant exhibit showcases elegant black and white photographs by Atlanta-based Andrew Feiler, who documented more than one hundred of the remaining buildings and interviewed former students and teachers about the schools’ enduring influence. He also authored a 2021 book with the same title as the exhibit.

Texas once had approximately 470 of these schools, plus several dozen teachers’ houses and industrial shops, where students learned trade skills. Funded primarily by donations from Rosenwald, who amassed a huge fortune through his mail-order business, the schools were built in rural areas across 82 counties, most of them in East and Central Texas. A Texas Historical Commission survey has determined that 39 of the buildings still stand, and 21 have been demolished. The fates of the rest are unknown.

The school-building program began in 1912, a year after Rosenwald and Washington met. Rosenwald, the son of German Jewish immigrants, lived in Chicago but was attuned to the plight of African Americans in the Jim Crow South. “I do not see how America can go ahead if part of its people are left behind,” he wrote. Washington, born enslaved in Virginia, pursued an education after emancipation and taught at the institution today known as Hampton University, in Virginia. He was tapped to serve as the founding principal for the Tuskegee Institute, established in 1881 as a training school for Black teachers. It’s now a comprehensive university near Montgomery, Alabama. 

By the time Rosenwald and Washington met at a fundraiser, Rosenwald had become president of Sears and was well on his way to making it the world’s largest retailer. He also had read Washington’s autobiography, Up From Slavery. Rosenwald’s generosity was partly an enactment of the Jewish ideals of tzedakah, which connotes both charity and justice, and tikkun olam, or actions intended to repair the world. His thinking was also shaped by the progressive ideas of his Chicago synagogue’s influential rabbi, Emil Hirsch, who supported workers’ rights and economic justice. Both Hirsch and Rosenwald were early supporters of the NAACP, which was founded by a multiracial coalition in 1909 in the wake of a race riot started by a white lynch mob in Rosenwald’s hometown of Springfield, Illinois.

Rosenwald knew that in the era of segregation, Black children in the South learned in substandard facilities that used outdated materials—when schools were available to them at all. Black schools received scant public funding, and kids often had to make do by attending makeshift schools in private homes, churches, or even outdoors. When Rosenwald launched his philanthropic program, he included a $25,000 gift (more than $810,000 in today’s dollars) to the Tuskegee Institute. Washington decided to direct some of the money toward building schools for Black children in rural Alabama. The duo built six schools near Tuskegee and, encouraged by their success, expanded the program to fifteen Southern and border states. They ultimately built 4,978 schools in partnership with local communities, which had to contribute labor or funds to the project. One in five Black schools in the rural South in the twenties was a Rosenwald school.

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Biden designates the site of 1908 race riot in Springfield, Illinois, a national monument | CNN

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Biden Designates Illinois Race Riot Site as a National Monument

A riot started by a white lynch mob in Springfield in 1908 destroyed a Black neighborhood and led to the creation of the N.A.A.C.P. Source: New York Times Biden Designates Illinois Race Riot Site as a National Monument

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Biden Will Designate Illinois Race Riot Site as a National Monument

The 1908 riot started by a white lynch mob in Springfield destroyed a Black neighborhood and led to the creation of the N.A.A.C.P.

“President Biden will designate a national monument on Friday at the site of a 1908 race riot that laid waste to a Black community in Springfield, Ill., joining civil rights leaders and Illinois lawmakers at the White House to commemorate the 116th anniversary of the rampage,” the New York Times reports.

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Biden Will Designate Illinois Race Riot Site as a National Monument

President Biden will designate a national monument on Friday at the site of a 1908 race riot that laid waste to a Black community in Springfield, Ill., joining civil rights leaders and Illinois lawmakers at the White House to commemorate the 116th anniversary of the rampage. The proclamation comes as Mr. Biden looks to burnish his legacy during his remaining months in office. It also takes place…

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Biden will designate 1908 Springfield race riot site as national monument

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; NAACP (Social Media Post)

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization that was founded in 1909 by W.E.B Du Bois, Ida Wells-Barnett, Mary White Ovington and others and is concerned with the challenges facing African-Americans, especially following the 1908 Springfield Race Riots. Since its inception in 1909 the NAACP has been responsible for a number of civil rights advancements like the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. As discussed in class the Fair Housing Act was a national movement but a big portion of the protests where a part of the March on Milwaukee campaign in the 1960s. The NAACP was the main organization that was handling and conducting protests in the Milwaukee area. Today, the NAACP and its followers focus on promoting the achievements of people of color while still spreading awareness for the civil rights issues that exist today.

This post by the NAACP on November 30, 2023 is a great example of how the organization spreads awareness through advertising the accomplishments of people of color. In this post we see the actress Fantasia Barrino Taylor on the cover of Elle magazine and the caption reads, "Black women gracing the cover of @elleusa's 2023 Women in Hollywood issue." There are many posts like these on the NAACP Instagram page and I think it is very important to showcase the achievements of people of color because it is another step towards a multicultural society.

This post by the NAACP on November 7, 2023 is in response to the jury verdict surrounding the officer responsible for the death of Elijah McClain. McClain was a 23 year-old black man who was killed by police in Aurora Colorado while he was walking home from the convenience store on August 30, 2019. Throughout this class we have talked a lot about the injustices and violence towards black people in America but I think that Peggy Mcintosh and her invisible knapsack summed it up best to me. What stood out to me while reading more about Elijah McClain was one of the invisible privileges from Peggy Mcintosh's Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, that privilege being, "I can travel alone without expecting embarrassment or hostility in those who deal with us" (Mcintosh). because I'm white I have never had to be fearful of a simple traffic stop or encounter with the cops but that can be very different for people of color. I think spreading awareness about the injustice of McClain and others like him is incredibly important and is necessary if we want to see any true change and organizations like the NAACP are pivotal in getting the word out.

NAACP Seal National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Naacp, https://naacp.org/. Accessed 17 Dec. 2023.

NAACP Instagram Posts Instagram @naacp https://www.instagram.com/p/CzXS_KKs4y_/

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The impetus to found the NAACP was the Springfield Race Riot:

This particular pogrom followed a standard pattern in the Nadir of Race Relations and illustrates all too well how white femininity had its deadly elements for Black people and especially for Black men. What made it stand out was the symbolism around Springfield, the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln and as such freighted with no small amount of symbolic weight. Springfield was the symbolic 'middle America' or heart of the United States. The sight of the pogrom, the bloodshed and the devastation that followed, sounded a knell for one age and the start of another.

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November Wilmington, North Carolina, riot. 1898–1899 Coal mine riots at Pana, Virden, and Carterville, Illinois. 1899 Anti-Lynching Bureau is established. Anti-Lynching League is founded. Publication of Sutton Griggs’ first novel, Imperium in Imperio. April Sam Hose is lynched in Palmetto, Georgia, for allegedly killing his white employer and committing sexual assault on the man’s wife. 1900 Ida B. Wells-Barnett publishes her third anti-lynching pamphlet, ‘‘Mob Rule in New Orleans.’’ July New Orleans, Louisiana, riot. August New York City riot. 1901 Publication of Charles Chesnutt’s novel, The Marrow of Tradition, which was based on the Wilmington, North Carolina, riot of 1898. Pierce City, Missouri, riot. lvi CHRONOLOGY OF AMERICAN RACE RIOTS AND RACIAL VIOLENCE 1903 Publication of W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches. Joplin, Missouri, riot. July In what is known as the Boston riot, militant activist William Monroe Trotter and his supporters disrupt a Boston speech by Booker T. Washington. 1904 March Springfield, Ohio, riot. 1905 Publication of The Clansman by Thomas Dixon, Jr. May First issue of the Chicago Defender. July The Niagara movement, an organization for young black intellectuals committed to ending racial prejudice, is founded by W.E.B. Du Bois, William Monroe Trotter, and others. 1906 Springfield, Missouri, riot. January Chattanooga, Tennessee, riot. April Greensburg, Indiana, riot. August Brownsville, Texas, riot. September Atlanta, Georgia, riot; the Atlanta Civic League is organized in the weeks following the riot. 1908 William Monroe Trotter founds the all-black National Equal Rights League. August Springfield, Illinois, riot. 1909 February W.E.B. Du Bois, William Monroe Trotter, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and others found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), an interracial organization dedicated to legal and social reform. 1910 The Crisis, the official magazine of the NAACP, is founded by W.E.B. Du Bois. July Palestine, Texas, riot. 1911

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Along with the Tulsa Massacre, don’t forget:

1829 Cincinnati Riots

1831 Nat Turner Rebellion

1866 New Orleans Massacre

1866 Memphis Riots

1868 St. Bernard Parish Massacre

1868 Opelousas Massacre

1871 Meridian Race Riot

1873 Colfax Massacre

1874 Vicksburg Massacre

1874 Choushatta Massacre

1875 Clinton Riot

1876 Ellenton Riot

1887 Thibodaux Massacre

1898 Wilmington Insurrection

1906 Atlanta Riot

1908 Springfield Riot

1917 East St. Louis Riots

The Red Summer of 1919

1920 Ocoee Massacre

1923 Rosewood Massacre

1943 Detroit Race Riot