The Tulsa Riots

Have you been judged on how you dress, what color you wear, or how you speak? Now just imagine that happening every day because of the simple fact that you have a different skin color. The Harlem Renaissance was approximately the birth of what we call today as racism. During the 1920 or the Renaissance time, African American were taken from the home in the deep South to work in the Northern and Midwestern states. With the birth of segregation and racism there came, riots and wrongly convicted black in the courts. In today’s time, we still see racism in many forms like the 1920’s riots and court rulings. One of the riots in the 1920’s that have some of the same purposes as today’s riots is the “Tulsa Riot”. The Tulsa Riot was said to

The trial was on a sexual assault charge against a white woman accusing Banks of raping her. Banks was only 16 at the time and with no evidence, he was sentenced to 41 years to life for the sexual assault of a white woman. Banks was well educated and had a bright future in football, but his career was crushed for a false conviction for a sexual assault charge. Banks turned down many plea deals from 25- 9 years because he knew he was innocent. In the end, he settled with a 90-day observation in Chico State Prison. His lawyer told him that was the thing for him to do especially with having an all-white jury. He spent five years and two months in prison and it wasn’t until 2012 that his accuser renounced her story. This may have gotten him of jail, but he had already lost half of his life to a crime he didn’t commit. Luckily during prison, the twice his age men never asked what he did. In the usually case people that are locked up for any sexual charge are in some form are sexually assaulted. Banks would never get those 10 years back, but he was glad to be out of jail. Soon after Brock Turner, a white male was charged with five counts of sexual assault. He had a clean slate, a career lined up for him, and well educated, but he was white. Brock Turner got sentenced to 6 months in prison on the same counts as Brian Banks. Brian Banks said “They gave him six years. They

The Atlanta riot was a riot that would have never been thought of. People thought of Atlanta as a place where the color of your skin didn’t have such a huge effect. The state Atlanta was flourishing business and dominated with black figures. W.E.B Du Bois was a huge hit off Atlanta. He was one of the few blacks that were educated. There was also many Woman affiliated groups, most of which were with the National Association of Colored People. Despite the racism being underneath the table it soon surfaced to become the Atlanta riot. It started from local press publishing false articles about black men sexual assaulting white women. This raised the KKK and any racial group against African American. It was September 22, 1906, when a mob of white supremacies gathered around Decatur Street. Most the white Americans were angered by the headlines and wanted ever black dead and gone. Ever black they had seen was chased down, beaten, and killed, The official numbers of black killed were 25 and one white killed. Unofficially about 100 black died during this race