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Those Kentucky school kids live in a suburb of Cincinnati. I wonder if their school teaches them about the race riots of 1829, 1836, and 1841. In each of these riots, mobs of white people systematically terrorized the city's growing black community. utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/mobhp.…
The 1829 anti-black riots were so severe that over 1000 free black residents of Cincinnati decided to relocate to escape the excessively hostile and violent situation there. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnat…
A much fuller, scholarly account of the 1829 riots can be found here. This event is a chapter not only in the history of racist violence in the US, but also in the struggle for black self-determination. jstor.org/stable/1562479…
A much fuller, scholarly account of the 1829 riots can be found here. As Dr. Nikki Taylor argues, this event is a chapter not only in the history of racist violence in the US, but also in the struggle for black self-determination. jstor.org/stable/1562479…
