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- A large crowd of people, especially one that is disorderly and intent on causing trouble or violence. The word is recorded from the late 17th century and is an abbreviation of the archaic mobile, short for Latin mobile vulgus ‘excitable crowd’. From the early 20th century, the Mob has been an informal term for the Mafia.
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Sep 27, 2021 · In cities as large as Miami, Florida, and as small as Cairo, Illinois, citizens formed mobs that threw rocks at police, hurled firebombs, overturned cars, looted shops, and sometimes beat,...
Jun 6, 2020 · The commission found “systemic participation in mob violence by the police,” Khalil Muhammad, a professor of history, race, and public policy at Harvard Kennedy School and author of the book...
- Riots at The Steps of The Capitol
- A Murder in Chicago Ignites A City
- For Veterans, A Broken Promise
Washington D.C had5,000 black veteransand for many of them, self-defense was a last resort after weeks—and indeed decades—of government inaction. One of the first people killed in Washington D.C.’s violence was a 22-year-old black veterannamed Randall Neal. At a high point of the mayhem, one Washington newspaper reported that the city had “passed t...
Just two days after federal troops withdrew from Washington D.C., aBlack teenager was killed by a white man in Chicago, lighting the match that would kick off a week of violent riots. By the end, 15 white people and 23 black people would be dead, over 500 people would be injured, and over 1,000 black families would be homeless after their homes wer...
As bloodshed spread nationally—to South Carolina, Nebraska, Florida, Ohio, among others—veterans continued to be targeted. At least13 veteranswere lynched across the United States after the war. Many of them were in uniform which, when worn in public, many white people saw as an affront to America’s racial caste system. It was the opposite of the r...
- Abigail Higgins
Jan 4, 2022 · Mob Violence, Human Behavior, and the Capitol Insurrection. This mini-lesson on the Capitol insurrection invites students to reflect on how seemingly small choices made by individuals can contribute to larger acts of injustice and violence. Published: January 4, 2022. Last Updated: February 25, 2022. Share to Google Classroom. Print this Page.
Jan 15, 2021 · As if a white mob did not descend on Washington, D.C., itself in July, 1919, when President Woodrow Wilson allowed racial violence to escalate in the nation’s capital for several days....
- Victor Luckerson
This four-volume world history is the first collection of its kind to look at violence across different periods of human history and across many regions of the world. It capitalises on the growing scholarly interest in the history of violence, which is emerging as one of the key intellectual issues of our time.
May 14, 2019 · The long “Red Summer of 1919” saw a brutal outburst of mob violence directed against African Americans across the country. James Weldon Johnson, field secretary of the NAACP, was the one to name it the “Red Summer.”
