BRUTAL VIOLENC: AFRICAN AMERICAN LABORER"MR. WILLIAM WAS BURN TO DEATH.

I was taught about this, first day, Black History, University of Nebraska.

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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

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.......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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A History of Brutal Violence: THIS is America..Never Forget

James Weldon Johnson named the summer of 1919 the "Red Summer" for the rash of deadly riots which erupted in more than twenty-five American cities between April and October of that year. Racial tensions were at an extreme in Omaha that summer; the influx of African Americans from the South and a perceived epidemic of crime created an atmosphere of mistrust and fear that led to the lynching of William Brown.

Brown had been accused of molesting a white girl. When police arrested him on September 28, a mob quickly formed which IGNORED ORDERS(who does this sound like?) from authorities that they disperse. When Mayor Edward P. Smith appeared to plead for calm, he was kidnapped by the mob, hung to a trolley pole, and nearly killed before police were able to cut him down.

The rampaging mob set the courthouse prison on fire and seized Brown. He was hung from a lamppost, mutilated, and his body riddled with bullets, then burned. Four other people were killed and fifty wounded before troops were able to restore order.

This photograph was acquired from a Lincoln, Nebraska, man whose grandfather purchased it for two dollars as a souvenir while visiting Omaha in 1919. Thanks for reading, leave your thought in the comment section below.

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