CHAPTER IX: WAR, RACE RIOTS, AND NEW NADIR, 1917-1928.
In: Secret City: A History of Race Relations in the Nation's Capital; 1967, p184-214, 31p, 1 Chart
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The article focuses on the war and race riots in Washington from 1917 through 1928. Proofs of white antagonism were numerous: new congressional proposals for residential segregation and other Jim Crow bill which were a slap at the Negro war effort; the three-year sentence imposed by U.S. court martial on a Negro sentry for shooting a white man who disobeyed the command of halt; the failure of government offices to hire colored people qualified by civil service examinations and of the District police department to take on colored patrolmen; in the face of a dearth of white motormen and conductors, the refusal of the street railway companies to employ Negroes to fill some five hundred jobs; and Red Cross segregation colored volunteers from white. Despite the serious shortage of living quarters for the city's war-swollen population, District officials and the U.S. Congress rejected a housing plan for alley-dwellers when Negro builders sought a loan to enable them to put low rental apartments. Colored families suffered every deprivation that white residents had to endure, and in winter 1917-1918, the coal shortage imposed hardships upon Negro slumdwellers far more severe than any known to the occupants of better built houses. Negro families faced the same anxieties as whites about fathers, sons and brothers serving in training camps and on the battlefields of France and Negroes had the added burden of withstanding racism within the U.S. Army.
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CHAPTER IX: WAR, RACE RIOTS, AND NEW NADIR, 1917-1928.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Green, Constance Mc ; Laughlin |
Quelle: | Secret City: A History of Race Relations in the Nation's Capital; 1967, p184-214, 31p, 1 Chart |
Veröffentlichung: | 1967 |
Medientyp: | Buch |
ISBN: | 978-0-691-00568-3 (print) |
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