Alayna Urquhart

Yep.

And by the way, later, that was already known to be a complete fucking lie.

Like that kid was brutalized, tortured, and murdered for no other reason besides him being a little black boy.

Yep.

It's so fucked up.

So this should already make your senses go up, especially in this time period and in this place.

Yeah.

So following that publication, white men and boys began assembling in mobs across Atlanta with estimates raging between 10,000 to 15,000 people.

of them patrolling the streets that many white men these i'm saying these angry mobs besieged black neighborhoods like all these enclaves i just talked about destroying black owned businesses attacking black men at random pulling them from streetcars chasing them down the street by the end of the night on september 22nd this is horrifying the end of the night an estimated 25 to 30 black men had been killed by these mobs with countless others terrorized or injured

Just because of these articles.

It's like unthinkable.

And the fact that it wasn't even true.

They had like no, like some of these things were.

I'm sure they were conflated.

I was going to say they were either exaggerated or made up.

Exactly.

All these articles.

Like they ranged in that.

despite the governor having mobilized state troops to quell the chaos with local police and fire departments supporting their efforts the violence continued into the next day finally coming to an end on september 25th a few days later it's unknown how many black atlantans died during the massacre but for many among the community the violence obliterated any hope that they could successfully integrate with or be welcomed by their white neighbors like this was clear

Absolutely.