African American Riots 1919

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In this time, white people were super against the blacks that even polices and the people that are supposed to protect people from getting hurt were taking sides and being unfair. The tension started to rise when World War I ended in the late 1918s. At this time African Americans were migrating from the South to the cities in the North. When the war ended thousands of servicemen had arrived to see that warehouses and mills had been full of African Americans, because of this the white people thought that African Americans had too much freedom that they should have because of their skin color. This obviously offended African Americans, and I see why. These riots took place in the in the South. Also. in the summer of 1919 riots would break
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