U.S. History: When African Americans were forced out of cities and counties

U.S. History: When African Americans were forced out of cities and counties

The United States of America’s Preamble to the Constitution reads as follows:
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

This Dilemma X topic takes time to remember a part of American history that should never be forgotten. History is an important part of understanding how we live today. It is also important to remember and to know history, so that one can understand when seeing warnings signs of any regressive actions in contemporary times. Not knowing history allows the bad parts of history to be repeated.

Shared below are only just a few articles on a time when African Americans were threatened by force to flee from the cities and counties in which they had lived.

These incidents did not occur only in the locations listed below. There were many other cities and counties that also share the same history.

Video: Former U.S. Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice on being proud of the election of Barack Obama as the first black U.S. President
November 5, 2008

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1860 Missouri

1865 Clarke County, Indiana

1895 Spring Valley, Illinois

1898 Wilmington, North Carolina
America’s only coup d’état that help advance Jim Crow across the Southern state
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Video: Historian the late John Hope Franklin on the 1898 Wilmington Riots

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1898 Wilmington, North Carolina

1898 Wilmington, North Carolina

1898 Wilmington, North Carolina

1898 Wilmington, North Carolina

1901 Pierce City, Missouri

1901 Pierce City, Missouri

1902 South Bend, Indiana

1905 Galveston, Texas

1906 Atlanta, Georgia

1906 Atlanta, Georgia

1906 Augusta, Georgia

1906 Mississippi

1906 Casey, Illinois

1908 Springfield, Illinois

1908 Haskell County, Texas

1908 Sabine County

1910 Texas

1911 Hominy, Oklahoma

1912 Forsyth County, Georgia

1912 North Georgia Counties

1913 Cobb County, Georgia

1913 Caddo County, Oklahoma

1914 Logan County, West Virginia

1917 East St. Louis, Illinois

1917 East St. Louis, Illinois

1917 East St. Louis, Illinois

1917 East St. Louis, Illnois

1917 East St. Louis, Illinois

1917 East St. Louis, Illinois

1917 East St. Louis, Illinois

1917 East St. Louis, Illinois

1921 Hall County, Georgia

1921 Trenton, New Jersey