I never even knew this atrocity happened until today.

[milestogo]

Link to tweet

[SheltieLover]

1. Omg!

[Takket]

2. WHAT??????????? How in the hell have i never heard of this???????????

This is the same reaction I had to the Tulsa race riot......... how many more crimes against humanity have been perpetrated against blacks in America that history has just erased????????

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

3. If you go to the link

you will find the answer to the question you asked. About one a day for the entire year!
https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/mar/05

[milestogo]

5. This happened during my lifetime and I never heard about it until today.

It really speaks to what's missing in our education.

[wnylib]

11. Same here. I was 9 years old in 1959.

Never heard about it until now.

[ShazzieB]

19. Me, too.

I was 9 years old in 1959 and never heard of this until now.

[yellowdogintexas]

51. so was I. Can't believe I am just hearing about it now nt

[orleans]

22. it sure does nt

[progressoid]

29. education and the media.

[orleans]

25. wow - thank you for that link! nt

[FoxNewsSucks]

12. They plan to erase a lot more.

[soldierant]

14. I don't recall the exact dates

but there have been race riots on a scsle of the Tulsa one something like every three years between around 1900 and 1960.

Again, that's not exact, but it's close, and does not include incidents not on the scale of a "riot" (a better word would be "massacre.)

[YoshidaYui]

36. This is my first hearing about it

All I can say is omg!!

[Evolve Dammit]

56. Lots. Read the book "By Names Now Known." Disgusting white-washing and media complicity. nt

[Wuddles440]

4. Nor did I!

But I imagine there've been a lot of such atrocities throughout the sordid history of this country that never received the attention they deserved.

[calimary]

42. Yep. Can't stop wondering about that one.

So what else do we not know about?

What else has avoided deeper examination?

Who else slithered out of danger?

[sheshe2]

6. It wasn't really a school, it was a prison farm.

The movie Brubaker was based on some of the corruption of the Arkansas Prison.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brubaker

[milestogo]

7. Sounds like an interesting film.

These boys were juveniles aged 13-17, so there's that.

[sheshe2]

9. Just kids sent up on bogus claims to work as free labor.

The unspeakable atrocities

[JustAnotherGen]

32. Catch it if you can

Redford says maybe 5 words the first 10-15 minutes -

He shows us the horror in his eyes.

[claudette]

8. Arkansas

Says it all

[sheshe2]

10. Exactly, claudette.

[claudette]

13. It's certainly

not everyone but I fear the south will always be scarred from their past. Some just can’t let it go and grow up

[sheshe2]

18. And there are some that just don't want to face the truth.

Therefore, they burn the books.

[claudette]

40. Exactly!

We should NEVER forget the horrors of slavery in our past.

[Ms. Toad]

20. Yes - but -

Look up criminalization of black boys (generally)

Here, specifically: one of the boys was incarcerated for riding a white boy's bicycle (with permission of the white boy's mother); another for soaping windows on halloween.

https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/mar/5

[sheshe2]

24. What is your point?

I am not denying the atrocities or how they got there.

[Ms. Toad]

26. I'm not sure the fact that it was a prison farm

rather than a school is a meaningful difference because of the prison farm was populated with boys/young men who would not have been incarcerarted but for the color of their skin.

[sheshe2]

33. Why are you picking a fight with me?

The point is it is horrific how we treated black men and women in our past and still do right up to this day.

Done here.

[Ms. Toad]

34. I'm not. But you certainly seem to be looking for a fight.

Enjoy shadowboxing.

[okaawhatever]

15. Disgusting. nt

[NoMoreRepugs]

16. Governor Ron is going to be upset this information is on the interweb thingy.

[electric_blue68]

17. Omg, I didn't know either! Heinous atrocity! ...

Not only Tulsa reenerging from something hidden to the larger world, there was that one somewhat similar in way NorthWest FL.

The burning down of the Black orphanage in NYC during the Anti Draft Riots of the Civil War.

Plus so many "smaller" events as in numbers but not levels of hideousness!

From the Memorial site:

"The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, informally known as the National Lynching Memorial, is a national memorial to commemorate the black victims of lynching in the United States. It is intended to focus on and acknowledge past racial terrorism and advocate for social justice in America. Wikipedia

(my underline)

[yellowdogintexas]

52. there was a cluster of Tulsa-like incidents in the 20s

which I never knew about until Tulsa's story was being told a few years ago.

[Ms. Toad]

21. I'm curious about those who survived.

I assumed there would be stories about/from the 48 survivors - but I can't find anything at all.

[onecaliberal]

23. Words fail.

[CrispyQ]

27. I heard about it a few years ago.

I'm 65 & have a good education but events like this were never taught. So much about Black history isn't taught.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

28. DeSantis won't want this taught in Florida's history classes

[milestogo]

31. Were it not for Black History Month

I'm not sure we'd be talking about it here. I just happened to see the tweet.

We are all undereducated, and efforts to remedy that are under attack.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

41. Black Hostory Month is both a celebration, and a reminder to the nation of its past crimes.

So as not to be repeated.

Suppression of that history is pre-genocidal, advocating for such a thing is anti-democratic.

[PurgedVoter]

30. Two months before I was born

I went to first grade in Arkansas. I remember seeing black people for the first time. I was excited and wanted to go over and find out how to make my skin do the same thing. Probably a good thing that my parents restrained me.
Now I cry the tears of an ignorant man raised in ignorance thinking my own griefs were enormous.

[GGoss]

35. YouTube Video(s) Here:

I'll post two.

Seeking justice for 21 Black boys killed in 1959 Wrightsville fire- YouTube (Posted 1 year ago)

Locked In & Burned (Interview with survivor) - YouTube (Read the comments, more families histories)

There's more there at YouTube.

I just typed in "Wrightsville 21" (no quotes) and there were quite a few.

I had never heard of this until tonight.

Jesus

[milestogo]

45. Thank you.

[dai13sy]

37. Monsters

The garbage white men who did this have and will suffer forever

[Martin68]

38. I suspect this but one of a multitude of atrocities committed against African Americans, both during

the time of enslavement and afterwards. Unlike Republicans and their ilk, I believe every single one should be brought to light so that we understand the full magnitude of the crimes committed against these people kidnapped from their families and their culture, brought to America against their will, and forced to labor in servitude under horrific conditions. After the Civil War, American society continued to mistreat, imprison, and murder those who made the slightest movement towards the rights supposedly guaranteed to all citizens. This history must come to light and be fully acknowledged.

[orthoclad]

39. Woud someone kindly

give a source other than Muskter? Or a verbal description?
I don't give clicks to apartheid Nazi monsters.

[murielm99]

43. Never heard of it.

I was born in 1948.

[twodogsbarking]

44. This is the history that many don't want the others to learn.

Thank you for posting. My country lies to its people.

[Butterflylady]

46. We learn something new every day. Shameful and horrible.

No wonder why our country is in just a disarray. We are all paying for the atrocities of the past.

[Paladin]

47. Woefully under-reported incident. (nt)

[The Jungle 1]

48. Black WWII veterans were lynched after the war!

But we still refuse to agree to reparations for Black Americans.
"From 1945 to 2018, the German government paid approximately $86.8 billion in restitution and compensation to Holocaust victims and their heirs." https://www.state.gov/reports/just-act-report-to-congress/germany/

Many in America also want to stop teaching this history.

[halfulglas]

57. The mistreatment of black veterans after WWII is the main reason

President Harry Truman desegrated the armed forces. His experience in the Army in World War I instilled in him such a respect for anyone who served in the armed services that he was disgusted that vets should come home to this treatment and determined to start the process of making their making their treatment in the service itself more fair. Unfortunately this didn't extend to more equal treatment under the GI bill allowing equity in housing treatment and education loans.

[The Jungle 1]

58. There have been good people trying for a long time

I just do not understand why it is taking so long.

[mountain grammy]

49. I am 75. I was 11 when this happened. We lived in Connecticut at the time.

I remember this being on the news and my mom reading the newspaper and talking about it to us. She told us it was like the Nazis who locked Jews in synagogues and set them on fire. She was furious. Wrote letters to our reps and President Eisenhower.

The "news" never did identify the cause of the fire that I remember.

[grantcart]

50. Tks for posting

[world wide wally]

53. And this shouldn't be taught in our schools because it may make white kids

uncomfortable?
We deserve the kind of country we are becoming.
This should be taught on the first day of first grade... EVERYWHERE

[KG]

54. if you didn't know about this ( I didn't ) - that was no accident.

[AllaN01Bear]

55. this is what the rs dont want u to know . bury it.

[Kid Berwyn]

59. Negro Boys Industrial School

A State-Run Criminal Enterprise

https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/negro-boys-industrial-school-fire-of-1959-5500/