The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 was a mass civil disturbance in Atlanta, Georgia, USA which began the evening of September 22nd and lasted until September 25th. At least 27 people died^[1] and over seventy were injured. Civil disorder is a broad term that is typically used by law enforcement to describe one or more forms of disturbance caused by a group of people. ... Nickname: Hotlanta, The Big Peach, The ATL, A-Town Location in Fulton County in the state of Georgia Coordinates: Country United States State Georgia Counties Fulton, Dekalb  - Mayor Shirley Franklin (D) Area    - City  132. ... September 22 is the 265th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (266th in leap years). ... September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

The riot was sparked by unsubstantiated rumours of black men attacking white women. In response, thousands of whites attacked and killed black men, women, and children in the downtown Atlanta area. The official death count was 12 blacks and two whites, but it has been claimed the real death toll was much higher^{[citation needed]} as Atlanta authorities did not want to further damage the reputation of the city. Walter Francis White, later executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People gave an eye-witness account of a mob beating a lame bootblack to death. Walter Francis White Walter Francis White (July 1, 1893, Atlanta, Georgia - March 21, 1955, New York, New York) was a spokesman for blacks in the United States for almost a quarter of a century and executive secretary (1931-1955) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. ... The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP, generally pronounced as EN Double AY SEE PEE) is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States. ...

The riot was reported in newspapers around the world but has not been taught in schools in the United States, and those who died have not been officially commemorated.^{[citation needed]}

External links

• Defending Home and Hearth: Walter White Recalls the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot
• NPR: Atlanta Race Riot
• Atlanta Race Riot - The Coalition to Remember the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot
• Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 - Article in The New Georgia Encyclopedia
• Rage in the Gate City - The online home for the book on the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot by Rebecca Burns

References

• Bauerlein, Mark (2001). Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906. San Francisco: Encounter Books. ISBN 1-893554-54-6. 

• Burns, Rebecca (2006). Rage in the Gate City: The Story of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot. Emmis Books. ISBN 1-57860-268-8. 

• Godshalk, David Fort (2006). Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations. The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-5626-6. 
• Mixon, Gregory (2005). The Atlanta Riot: Race, Class, And Violence In A New South City. University Press of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-2787-X.