Jump to content

Corbin, Kentucky race riot of 1919

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Thats Just Great (talk | contribs) at 17:54, 22 July 2019 (Create with text from Norfolk riot). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Corbin, Kentucky race riot of 1919
DateMay 27, 1919
StandortCorbin, Kentucky, United States

Corbin, Kentucky race riot of 1919 was a race riot in 1919 in which a white mob forced nearly all the town's 200 black residents onto a freight train out of town, and a sundown town policy until the late 20th century.

Corbin Explusione

On October 29, 1919 two men robbed and stabbed A.F. Thompson before escaping without him getting a good look.[1] Thompson was able to stumble to a nearby house and get help. Word soon spread about the attack and that it was two black men who had assaulted him. An enraged white mob made up of hundreds of Corbin townspeople quickly formed and went house to house rounding of black residents.[2] When they felt that all of the African-Americans of the town had been rounded up. The mob marched a group of about 300 men, women and children to the train station, and herded them onto cramped railcars. The train departed with its human cargo and they were sent south to the town Knoxville.[1] [3] [4]

Aftermath

Main article: Red Summer

This uprising was one of several incidents of civil unrest that began in the so-called American Red Summer, of 1919. Terrorist attacks on black communities and white oppression in over three dozen cities and counties. In most cases, white mobs attacked African American neighborhoods. In some cases, black community groups resisted the attacks, especially in Chicago and Washington DC. Most deaths occurred in rural areas during events like the Elaine Race Riot in Arkansas, where an estimated 100 to 240 black people and 5 white people were killed. Also in 1919 were the Chicago Race Riot and Washington D.C. race riot which killed 38 and 39 people respectively, and with both having many more non-fatal injuries and extensive property damage reaching up into the millions of dollars.[5]

Corbin, Kentucky race riot in media

Trouble Behind (1991), a documentary by Robby Henson that examines the history and legacy of racism in Corbin, Kentucky, a small railroad community noteworthy both as the home of Colonel Sanders' Kentucky Fried Chicken and for "its race riots of 1919, during which over two hundred blacks were loaded onto boxcars and shipped out of town." The film aired at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. [6] [7]

See also

Bibliography

Notes

  1. ^ a b Griggs 2002.
  2. ^ NPR 2007.
  3. ^ Rucker & Upton 2007, p. 557.
  4. ^ Voogd 2008, p. 59.
  5. ^ The New York Times 1919.
  6. ^ Henson 1991.
  7. ^ Sundance Group 2019.

References

  • McWhirter, Cameron (2011). Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America. Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 9781429972932. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help) - Total pages: 368
  • Griggs, Kristy Owens (Summer 2002). "The Removal of Blacks from Corbin in 1919: Memory, Perspective, and the Legacy of Racism". The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. vol. 100 (no. 3). Kentucky Historical Society: 293–310. ISSN 0023-0243. OCLC 2263214. Retrieved July 22, 2019. {{cite journal}}: |issue= has extra text (help); |volume= has extra text (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |trans_title= (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Henson, Robby (1991). Trouble Behind (Documentry) (Film). Corbin, Kentucky. Event occurs at 56 min. Retrieved July 22, 2019. {{cite AV media}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • The New York Times (October 5, 1919). "For Action on Race Riot Peril". The New York Times. New York, NY: Adolph Ochs. ISSN 1553-8095. OCLC 1645522. Retrieved July 5, 2019. {{cite news}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • NPR (March 10, 2007). "Kentucky Town Re-Examines Its Racial History". NPR. Retrieved July 22, 2019. {{cite web}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Sundance Group (2019). "Archives 1991 Sundance Film Festival: Trouble Behind". Sundance Group. Retrieved July 22, 2019. {{cite web}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Rucker, Walter C.; Upton, James N. (2007). Encyclopedia of American Race Riots, Volume 2. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313333026. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help) - Total pages: 930
  • Voogd, Jan (2008). Race Riots and Resistance: The Red Summer of 1919. Peter Lang. ISBN 9781433100673. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help) - Total pages: 234

Trouble Behind Documentry at IMDb

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corbin,_Kentucky_race_riot_of_1919&oldid=907408140"