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"Riots always seem to kick off in the summer." 🔥🔥🔥
In 1919, there were riots in:
🔸#Chicago
🔸#Baltimore
🔸#Omaha
🔸#Newport
🔸#Liverpool
+ and more
#Cymraeg #History #Cymru #Hanes
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This article by @ShaheenCymru in @WalesArtsReview has written a fantastic piece on the #1919RaceRiots in #Newport :
walesartsreview.org/remembering-th…
#1919RaceRiots #Wales #Cymru #Casnewydd #Hanes
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‘White mobs wrecked so many properties that the town looked as if it had suffered an air raid’.
Let me rephrase this 90% of all of the people arrested during the #1919RaceRiots in #Newport were black. The rioting crowd was a 3000 people strong and systematically targeting people of colour and their property
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🔸#Newport
🔸#Cardiff
🔸#Barry
It *was* quiet: but the impact of the evening of Friday 6th June 1919 is something #Newport has greatly struggled with