Everytime Black people built something, jealous whites destroyed it. This stuff is never mentioned in the news or your American history books but it is important to remember the psychology of those that did the deed.
Jul. 29 1910 Slocum Massacre in Texas Zinn Education Project
There is a lot of history that hopefully will now be taught since the old white christians are losing power and dying off
Rosewood Massacre 1923 The Black Past Remembered and Reclaimed
Definitely a KKK killing...
The Rosewood Massacre of 1923
Despite the tension, the situation might have simmered down had it not been for the unfortunate timing of a Ku Klux Klan rally in nearby Gainesville. When Fannie’s husband, James Taylor, sent for help to find the guilty man, upwards of four hundred Ku Klux Klan members showed up at the Taylors’ door and began combing the woods for a suspect, eager to deliver their idea of “justice.”
More about the KKK in Florida during that period.....
Ku Klux Klan met its match in Putnam County in the 1920s Tampa Bay Times
The postwar politics of race and citizenship were particularly brutal in Florida. Black veterans and female leaders of the war effort like Mary McLeod Bethune worked to register blacks to vote in huge numbers before the 1920 election.
White Florida was outraged. The backlash to this voter drive helped launch the Ku Klux Klan back to prominence and made white vigilantes, generally, a powerful force across the state.
The battles culminated on Election Day 1920, when white Democratic Florida largely put down black efforts to vote for the Republican candidate, Warren G. Harding.
In 1923, lynchingsdeclined nationally almost by half, from 57 in 1922 to 33. The reduction reflected growing revulsion over the practice and coincided with pursuit of a federal anti-lynching bill that never became law.
But Florida defied these trends. Two men, both with Ku Klux Klan ties, leapt to challenge Hagan in the spring 1924 Democratic primary. Hagan took to the
Palatka Daily News to describe his view of the Klan and its members, some of whom he described as "friends."
"I have recently been asked repeatedly if I am a member of the Ku Klux Klan. To this question I answer, no. I believe I know many members of the Putnam County Klan, and I know them to be good men individually. … I am not, and would not be a member, however, of any organization which appears to differ in policies from those who do not belong to its ranks, for the reason that as sheriff I believe it to be my duty to be perfectly free to serve all the of the people and not an organized part of them; I wish to feel perfectly free to perform my duties without obligations to any order …"
That was the wrong answer anywhere in Florida in 1924.
Hagan lost handily to a man named R.J. Hancock. With Hagan gone, the Florida Klan essentially took over Putnam County in 1925.
Virtually every weekend, vigilantes kidnapped men and women, black and white, and flogged them with straps or chains as punishment for some transgression. Sheriff Hancock's chief deputy was identified as a leader of the mobs.
Most of the time, the raids and abductions revolved around drinking. The Klan considered enforcement of Prohibition part of its larger mission to police social, sexual and religious mores.
Klansmen castrated a prominent Catholic priest at the University of Florida and then dumped him bleeding on the steps of his church. They flogged women they thought might be having affairs. Between 1924 and 1928, Klan mobs carried out as many as 80 of these nonfatal punishments in Putnam County.
It reached a head in the summer of 1926, the same fearful summer that saw Florida's land boom crash with desperate suddenness. That August, Putnam Klansmen abducted a black woman named Minnie Pinkney, who was supposedly known for drinking and carousing.
The men took her to a wooded area, stripped her and beat her nearly to death. Pinkney's son and nephew, Willie Steene and Ed Chisholm, came looking for her. Both men were murdered by vigilantes where they found her.
The killings gave ammunition to Palatka's formidable local opponents of the Klan — which included prominent lawyers and businesspeople, white and black. They forced a state attorney's investigation of Klan and mob activities in Putnam County. It was the first, and apparently only, investigation of its kind during the 1920s.
No one was punished. But in September 1926 Gov. John Martin summoned Putnam County Sheriff R.J. Hancock, Hancock's top deputy and the Palatka mayor to Tallahassee for a dressing-down. He threatened to declare martial law in Putnam if authorities did not halt the mobs.
More proof that the KKK was still a Democrat organization actively involved in killing blacks...
Have the Democrats paid reperations yet???
