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A Robert Charles sfcetdi
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July 28.1900 84-126-L
B “Mob Anger Is Vented at KawJg»*
from the Timcs-Dtr-July 26,1900 84-726-/.
C A Squad of the Civk CimiA
from the Times-Democr July 28, 1900 84-126-L
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One Negro Killed, Two Fatally Wotnoed and Twelve Others Hurt
LEAOERLESS RIOTERS SHOOT SIX WHITES WHILE ROAMING THE STREETS
Rampart Street Store Rifted of Weapons and Goods, and Attempts Made on Other Places—Street Cars Searched —Incidents of the Night.
Remembering a Riot
K. Stephen Prince, one of THNOC’s 2015 Woest Fellow* tu«« disturbing episodes in New Orleans history, the Robe.':
In July 1900, the city of New Orleans experienced one of ~ history. Over the course of four days, at least 13 people die= ■ Four members of the New Orleans Police Department *. -i. Orleanians were pulled from streetcars and shot, and the burned to the ground. Though police arrested more than * J on ment in the violence, none were convicted. For many An—; * * pall of racial violence and mob volatility at a time when ’ -ing culture was beginning to take hold across the South. unknown number of African Americans fled New Orleans city residents know anything of these events today.
At the center of the 1900 riot was an African America- -.*1 Charles was born in Mississippi in 1865 or 1866, and r ■ rz v He worked various odd jobs, but by 1900 he was supj“ tions to a black newspaper and shares in a company dc xni «
Americans migrate to Liberia. The 1890s were a parti__________
southerners. In 1896, the Supreme Court decision in constitutionality of racial segregation, and in 1898, a —■ . -.» denied huge majorities of African Americans their rij^r: -the South lynched hundreds of African Americans eac~* r--offenses. Charles’s acquaintances reported that Chaifc- «i.> rising tide of white supremacy in the 1890s. He regu!--
On the night of July 23,1900, Charles and his roof">' . . on Drvades Street. Though the two men were not bfr-. the New Orleans Police Department arrived and begat, exchange grew heated, a patrolman began to beat Chi ■ spun away, and both men drew their guns and exchange * managed to escape. Later that night, members of the NOPD tracked Charles to his rented apartment on Fourth Street. As the officers walked down the dark alley toward his rooms,
Charles burst out, holding a Winchester rifle. He shot and killed Captain John T.
Day and Patrolman Peter J.
Lamb. Charles once again escaped into the night and sought asylum with friends.
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