The ship was a powder keg awaiting a fuse to be lit. And that came on Oct. 11, when racial unrest triggered the worst shipboard riot in U.S. Navy history.
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The Chicago Race Riot of 1919: How the Death of Eugene Williams Shook America
Racial discrimination, police brutality, and a society slow, and in some cases, unwilling to […]
This Journalist Risked His Life to Reveal the Horrors of Lynching in the South
Lynching investigator Walter White risked everything to tell Americans the truth.
An American Nazi’s Rise and Fall
George Lincoln Rockwell was the son of vaudeville comedians, served in the U.S. Navy […]
Dialogue: Barbershops, Bibles and America’s Racial Divide
Melissa Harris-Perry says different perceptions of history separate blacks and whites. In the early […]
American History Book Review: On The Laps of Gods
On The Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for […]
American History Public Occurrences: December 2008
Rare Pendant May Be Likeness of Pocahontas’ Father Out of the haystack of artifacts […]
Hallowed Ground: Petersburg Crater, Virginia
The July 30, 1864, Battle of the Crater is recorded in the history of […]
Oliver Law: Fighting Racism at Home and Fascism Abroad
Oliver Law fought racism at home and fascism abroad
Ida B. Wells’ Fight Against the Lynching of Blacks
Ida B. Wells was tiny, half a foot shorter than 5 feet, with a […]