BRUTAL VIOLENC: AFRICAN AMERICAN LABORER"MR. WILLIAM WAS BURN TO DEATH.
I was taught about this, first day, Black History, University of Nebraska.
History Fact****
Omaha’s most famous native son is El Hajj Malik el Shabazz. He was born in 1925 as Malcolm Little to Earl and Louise Little, and lived in Omaha less than a year of his life. His story in the city is longer though, and lots of residents have struggled to memorialize the force of Malcolm X’s name. Despite that, there has never been a building, street, park, library or museum officially named for Omaha’s most powerful and famous native son.
MALCOLM X
WHATS NOT MENTIONED :
.......Nebraska-born actor Henry Fonda was 14 years old when the lynching happened. His father owned a printing plant across the street from the courthouse. He watched the riot from the second floor window of his father’s shop.
"It was the most horrendous sight I’d ever seen . . . We locked the plant, went downstairs, and drove home in silence. My hands were wet and there were tears in my eyes. All I could think of was that young black man dangling at the end of a rope."
During Fonda’s long career, at least two of his best movies — Young Mister Lincoln and The Ox Bow Incident — featured lynchings as major plot points.........
This Horrible picture shows Will Brown lynched, mutilated and burned by angry lynch mob. This was the result of the "Omaha Race Riot" that occurred in Omaha, Nebraska, on September 28–29, 1919.
Dressed in their Sunday best, whites heaved bricks through windows and fired guns into the air and the Douglas County courthouse that kept Will Brown inside. As night fell, they poured gasoline on piles of valuable records and set the courthouse ablaze, ripping ladders and hoses from the arriving firemen until they had their man.
The mob of thousands of white people had laid siege to the Douglas County Courthouse because they wanted to murder Brown, who had been wrongly accused — of assaulting a white woman. Mr Brown had rheumatoid arthritis. He was incapable of assaulting anyone.
The rioting mob of perhaps 15,000 people set the courthouse on fire. They tried to lynch the mayor of Omaha as well! They somehow finally got their hands on Brown. They beat him. They hanged him from a telegraph pole outside the burning courthouse. Then riddled his body with bullets. After killing him, they dragged his body through the streets, then set it on fire.
Following this riot was more than 20 more race riots occurred in major industrial cities of the United States during the Red Summer of 1919.
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