1919 Port Arthur riot

1919 Port Arthur riot Red Summer News coverage of the Port Arthur Riots 1919.png 300px B&W newspapers July US News coverage of the Port Arthur riot 1919 Port Arthur, Texas July 15, 1919 Dozens wounded The Port Arthur riot happened on July 15, 1919, in Port Arthur, Texas. Violence started after a group of white men objected to an African American smoking near a white woman on a street car.The Bossier Banner 1919 1 A "score" of whites and twice that number of African Americans battled in the streets leaving two seriously injured and dozens with minor injuries.The Pensacola Journal 1919 1 Aftermath Red Summer This uprising was one of several incidents of civil unrest that began in the so-called American Red Summer, of 1919. Terrorist attacks on black communities and white oppression in over three dozen cities and counties. In most cases, white mobs attacked African American neighborhoods. In some cases, black community groups resisted the attacks, especially in Chicago and Washington DC. Most deaths occurred in rural areas during events like the Elaine massacre in Arkansas, where an estimated 100 to 240 black people and 5 white people were killed. Also in 1919 were the Chicago Race Riot and Washington D.C. race riot which killed 38 and 39 people respectively, and with both having many more non-fatal injuries and extensive property damage reaching up into the millions of dollars.The New York Times 1919 See also Washington race riot of 1919 Mass racial violence in the United States List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States Bibliography Notes 20em References Crimes and casualties The Bossier Banner https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85034235/1919-07-17/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=07%2F15%2F1919&index=3&date2=07%2F20%2F1919&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=1&words=Arthur+Port&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=port+arthur&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=1 Four-page weekly newspaper The Bossier Banner William Henry Scanland Bellevue, Caldwell Parish, Louisiana 2381-5116 12598239 July 17, 1919 1–4 July 17, 2019 For Action on Race Riot Peril The New York Times The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1919/10/05/archives/for-action-on-race-riot-peril-radical-propaganda-among-negroes.html The New York Times 1553-8095 1645522 October 5, 1919 July 5, 2019 Whites clash with Negroes in Port Arthur The Pensacola Journal https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87062268/1919-07-15/ed-1/seq-1/# Daily The Pensacola Journal William Marion Loftin Pensacola, Florida 1941-109X 16280864 July 15, 1919 1–8 July 17, 2019 Category:Red Summer Category:African-American history between emancipation and the civil rights movement Category:1919 riots in the United States Category:July 1919 in the United States Category:African-American history of Texas Category:Racially motivated violence against African Americans in Texas Category:Riots and civil disorder in Texas Category:Port Arthur, Texas Category:1919 in Texas Category:White American riots in the United States Category:White nationalism in Texas