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Springfeld, Illinois Race Riot<br />
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On July 4,1908,Blanche Ballard awak-<br />
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Clergy Ballard dead.Authorities<a title="Summer Scholars 08 page 1" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=htgrs&pageid=1"> Welcome! 2008</a>
<a title="Summer Scholars 08 page 2" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=htgrs&pageid=2"> 1908-2008 FLASHPOINT Springfeld, Illinois Ra</a>ce Riot
<a title="Summer Scholars 08 page 3" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=htgrs&pageid=3"> TheAbrahamLincolnPresidentialLibraryandMuseum’sSu</a>mmerScholarsPro- grammissionistoassistacademicachievement;toencouragelife-longlearning; toexplorecareergoals;andtodevelopleadershipskillsbyofferingane
<a title="Summer Scholars 08 page 4" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=htgrs&pageid=4"> AHouse Divided Lincoln’svisionoftheU.Swasafarcryf</a>romrealityattheturnof the century.Relations between blacks and whites were punctu- ated by violence,riots,lynching and a legislative system of sepa- r
<a title="Summer Scholars 08 page 5" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=htgrs&pageid=5"> tick... RecipeforDisaster Hot, humid we</a>ather, rising tempers, racial tension, com- petition,and fear over jobs.Add a little“white” lie…
<a title="Summer Scholars 08 page 6" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=htgrs&pageid=6"> ClergyBallard “BeforeGo </a> On July 4,1908,Blanche Ballard awak- ened to find a man in her room.A fight between the attacker and her father left Clergy Ballard dead.Authorities
<a title="Summer Scholars 08 page 7" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=htgrs&pageid=7"> tick... GeorgeRichardson dIaminnocentofthis</a>crime.” On the night of August 14, 1908 Mabel Hallam accusedGeorgeRichard- son, a black hod-carrier, of rape. Springfield was outraged by the crime.
<a title="Summer Scholars 08 page 8" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=htgrs&pageid=8"> </a>
<a title="Summer Scholars 08 page 9" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=htgrs&pageid=9"> tick... NatthidaWiwatwicha Matt Ha</a>rtzler Rianna Hollenstine Beau Lawrence
<a title="Summer Scholars 08 page 10" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=htgrs&pageid=10"> EscapeRoute Authorities took George Richardson an</a>d Joe James to the Sangamon County Jail where a crowd gathered to lynch them.Fearing mob vio- lence,Sheriff CharlesWerner borrowed a car to remove the
<a title="Summer Scholars 08 page 11" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=htgrs&pageid=11"> BOOM!!! 8:30 pm </a> 10:00 pm August 15 Crowd attacks Mob turns Loper’s to the Levee WordspreadthatHar
<a title="Summer Scholars 08 page 12" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=htgrs&pageid=12"> Scott Burton knew his skin col- or made him a </a> target. Trying to defend himself, he fired his shotgun into the mob but was overwhelmed.The mob lynched Burton, ravaging his corpse with knives and b
<a title="Summer Scholars 08 page 13" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=htgrs&pageid=13"> With approximately 40 men, the city police f</a>orce could not manage a mob of thousands. By 6 o’clock on August 14, the State Militia as- sembled at the county jail but failed to stop the riot. Rei
<a title="Summer Scholars 08 page 14" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=htgrs&pageid=14"> “havemercyonmeboys” William Donnegan to his Lync</a>hers
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<a title="Summer Scholars 08 page 16" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=htgrs&pageid=16"> By Sunday,August 16,the mob had dispersed.In its </a>wake stood eighty-eight destroyed shops,homes,and theaters and four blocks of burned property in the Levee district. Hundreds ofAfricanAmeri- cans wer
<a title="Summer Scholars 08 page 17" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=htgrs&pageid=17"> In the riot’s aftermath,the city filed 107 indict</a>ments.Rather than go to jail,Kate Howard committed suicide. Later,the jury acquitted all but one of the rioters.The people who killed Scott Burton and
<a title="Summer Scholars 08 page 18" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=htgrs&pageid=18"> “I cannot say whether the horrible warisatanendor</a>not.Ihopeso.” –SheriffCharlesWerner
<a title="Summer Scholars 08 page 19" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=htgrs&pageid=19"> BeginningsofHope “The spirit of the abolition- i</a>sts,of Lincoln and of Lovejoy must be revived and we must come to treat the negro on a plane of absolute political and social equality,” wroteWil- lia
<a title="Summer Scholars 08 page 20" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=htgrs&pageid=20"> Resources Audio/Visual/Newspaper/Microfilmcollec</a>tion,AbrahamLincolnPresidentialLibrary andMuseum. Coryell,Matthew.“1908Springfield,IllinoisRaceRiotRevisited.”ResearchReport f
<a title="Summer Scholars 08 page 21" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=htgrs&pageid=21"> Whatcanyoudo? http://www.amnesty.org/ http://w</a>ww.tolerance.org/teach/?source=redirect&url=teachingtolerance http://www.naacp.org/home/index.htm http://library.thinkquest.org/2986/ http://www.lib.n
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