THE NEGRO QUESTION
WILD OUTBURST LN ATLANTA.
SAVAGE WHITES AND INNOCENT
BLACKS.
Press Association—By Telegrapli—Copyright.
NEW YORK, September 24. Savage anti-negro riots broke ont in Atlanta owing to the newspapers announcing that five assaults on white women had been committed on Saturday last. Mobs in all parts of the city attacked every negro seen in the streets, using pistols, knives, sticks, and stones. The police were powerless, and the mayor's appeals were disregarded. Fire engines vainly drenched the rioters. The tramcars were stopped and searched, and the negro passengers who were in them were either killed or badly beaten, even when escorting negresses. One negro was stabbed to death on tie post office steps. The militia finally quieted the city, but was powerless to stay the rioting outside. It is feared that thirty innocent negroes were killed. The hospitals are full of woraded negroes, many being mortally injnred.
[Atlanta, a beautiful city of 100,000 inhabitants, is the capital of Georgia, one of the Southern negro States.]
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Evening Star, Issue 12927, 25 September 1906, Page 6
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166THE NEGRO QUESTION Evening Star, Issue 12927, 25 September 1906, Page 6
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