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Assault in the Evening Journal, 1900 & 1920

Whites Wait For Fleeing Negroes in Race Riot.

Item

Title
Whites Wait For Fleeing Negroes in Race Riot.
Source
Perth Amboy Evening News (NJ)
Date
1923-01-12
page
12
Identifier
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85035720/1923-01-12/ed-2/?sp=12&q=%22Assault%22+%22Assaulted%22+%22Assaults%22&r=0.014,0.098,0.636,0.294,0
Crime
Assault
Subject
undetailed , racial
Race of alleged offender
Black
Gender of alleged offender
Male alleged offender
Race of alleged victim
White
Gender of alleged victim
Female alleged victim
Stage of the Legal System
Extralegal
Location
Out of state
FL
Length of story
97
Description
Whites Wait For Fleeing Negroes in Race Riot A posse of whites is shown here. Shotguns in hand, waiting for cornered negroes. The scene of the first bloodshed in the race riots of Rosewood, Fla., in which two whites and six negroes were killed. Shooting broke out when whites tried to capture a negro who was suspected of aiding Jessie Hunter, negro, accused of assault on white girl, to escape. The whites, ready to shoot, are C. D. Hudson and C. C. Osten of Otter Creek, and A. Alford, grandfather of the victim of the alleged assault.