Week 9 Post 3

 Week 9 Post 3- Reflection 

    This week's chapter was called state-sanctioned violence and it was about how black families faced violence for moving into areas that were predominately white or working on integration. This chapter was interesting but disturbing, some of the acts committed against these families were absolutely insane and it truly shocked me the lengths white people would go to to try and keep their neighborhoods segregated. The chapter went through a ton of examples, but one of the most shocking was the instance in Shively, an all-white suburb in Kentucky, where a white man signed a deed on a house for his black friend, Andrew Wade, and his family. As soon as the family moved in a mob gathered on the lawn, throwing rocks, burning crosses, and firing gunshots at the house, but only Wade was arrested for 'breaching the peace'. Braden, the man who signed the deed for the Wades house, was arrested for conspiracy and sentenced to fifteen years, but luckily he won an appeal and avoided the jailtime. This was terror inflicted in an area densley populated by the KKK, and they made sure to make a living hell for the Wade family. This chapter was full of these stories and race riots in Chicago and Detroit.

    My blog posting time is coming to a close, so this is what I have left after next week, the final week:

- Local investigation

- finishing the last few pages of the book that I didn't get to in my blogs

- researching more racial violence, interviewing my parents about their recollections of racial violence where they grew up

- Doing additional research with other sources

- Talking to some local experts on Des Moines history of racial violence in residential segregation

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  1. Ms. DunleyMay 11, 2023 at 9:28 AM

    How do these stories from Chicago and Detroit mirror what has taken place in Des Moines?

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