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The East St. Louis massacre of 1917
By Gregory Brown, Director
Black Holocaust Society:
The Angry Black Man
On July 3rd 1917, at 11:am, the work whistle blew and instead of going to
their respective job assignments, whites began to slaughter Black men to,
from and at their places of employment throughout the city. The White mobs
of cowards� by the thousands, set fire to their shacks, then descended on
the women and children after a labor dispute, between the Aluminum Ore
Company and the AFL.. Tensions came to a climax when 200 white striking
males were replaced by Black migrant workers that were solicited to East
Saint Louis by the company.� On this day alone, over 250 Blacks were killed
in the most savage and brutal way imaginable.
Nowhere else in US History has a more insane and in-humane acts committed
and recorded for the public to see.
White workers felt the need to exterminate everything Black that moves, in
order to preserve ; "white men's jobs"; The businesses were importing blacks
by the thousands to East St. Louis to offset labor union demands and many
had left their already held jobs to come their. Between the May 28th, 1917
and July 13th, 1917, hundreds of black migrant workers were killed, beaten
and burned alive all because their economic white peers were insecure.
Individual Black victims were randomly selected then kicked, beat, stoned,
hung, dragged, stabbed, their skulls were split open systematically openly
in public. It was a common to see pickup trucks drag 2 or three Blacks down
the street, as bodies of burning Black victims burned on bon fires, block
after city block over a� three mile stretch. Black hanging victims were left
displayed for weeks in the public on telephone poles, buildings and trees,
as over 10,000 visiting whites from around the US, came to perch body parts
as trinket's and to view the awesome might of the wrath of their brothers
against a disarmed unoffending Black population. Their goal was simple:
Exterminate Black life from East Saint Louis,(The land of Lincoln) and secure their jobs.
Even more shocking Black babies as young a 6 months old, were held by their
feet and tossed burning buildings, or� in the paths of moving motor vehicles
or their heads were bashed against telephone poles or concrete sidewalks in
morbid
contests to see who would get the best splatter effect. Body parts were sold
souvenirs an mementos to visitors that came from every section of the US to
as
view this community of 90,000 perform the most despicable, hideous, insanely
inhumane acts ever committed, by one American to another. Nowhere in
recorded history of the United Stated of America has such brutality ever
been written.
Blacks who jumped in the river to escape the murderous mobs, were shot for
sport, with whites wagering as to who could kill the nigger before he could
swim to the other side. If a poor Black victim made it to the other side,
they were stoned to death, by white children as young as six years of age.
White females were notorious for gauging the eyes out of black females using
hair pins, the long brass type and stomping, and clawing them to death,
after their babies were snatched from their arms and killed too.
In most cases the victims were outnumbered 100 to 1, and were beaten near
death and but not allowed to die for hours. Bodies burned openly in the
streets and the women� and children that were lucky enough to escape their
burning homes, were killed by white citizens, police and National Guardsmen,
who waited for 3 days in front of the burning structures, picking off Blacks
for sport and wager, as they ran from the flames, and tossing the dead
bodies back into the same infernal they had for the moment, escaped.
Many Blacks shuttered in their shops and homes faced the option of burning
to death in the flames or being shot in an attempt to flee. Many chose to
parish in the flames of their torched shacks, house after house, shop after
shop, with zero remains of their bodies to be found in the rubble.
The real kicker is that the United States Military investigated, then sealed
this information until 1986 and today not even the brightest of historians
know details of the event or how to find it because of the way it was
indexed. I found it by mistake myself. Another not is that the activity took
place everyday between May 28th and July 6th 1917. Strangely enough, the
Negro , as it was called, had no KKK input at all. It was the common
working white-male that perpetrated these ungodly acts, based on fears of
direct labor competition.
The entire horror was sanctioned by the AFL-CIO as a result of competition
in the labor market. The details of The East St. Louis Massacre are little
scant notes in the AFL-CIO history, and every Black American should take a
second look at the Labor Unions and their place in Black American life after
this story is fully told. Labor leaders outright advocated the mass
destruction of the Black population in it's attempt to preserve jobs for it'
white members. In union halls throughout East Saint Louis, members were told
to
purge the niggers by any violent means, and maintain and revive their
previous standard of living.
I will be revealing the full record of this event after I complete my
research. The documentation is at a high cost in time and travel and a its
been like pulling teeth for me to extract the records held under seal by
Congress and the Labor Unions. I will reveal it all down the road in a
pamphlet form for those interested.
I have a limited release report for those who want more info a $10.00
donation will get you a official report written by Ida B. Wells Barnett on
July 3rd 1917, who lead a movement to have the 65th Congress hold hearings
on the matter. She was successful in getting the hearing and the entire
hearing was sealed, and not released to the public from 1918 until 1986.
Other reports and hearings are still in the vaults of Congress.
Documents contains real testimonials, victim statements, eyewitness accounts
official
accounts, rumors, press releases and some photos (not many were taken
because police
destroyed as many camera on the spot as they could).
The documents we seek from Congress have much, much more evidence that
totally justifies
the need for the African American to see himself as history records a
pattern that has continued
before and ever since The East St. Louis Massacre of July 3rd, 1917. My
studies over the past
5 years reveal over 120 such & dating back to 1824. And God forbid it
happens again. There
were 26 such riots in the summer of 1919 alone!
Donations will be used to purchase microfilm records and transcriptions of
the reels to paper and web page form, for free internet access and
distribution for historic preservation purposes. The cost for the microfilm
is $3050.00 and contains pictures, testimonials, government records, trials
of Dr. Leroy Bundy, labor records, damage reports, newspapers etc. The site
will bear the historic record for all to see, for all time.
To verify that the event even took place, go to your local library and look
at microfilms of newspapers for the dates between May 28th 1917 and July
13th 1917. There should be API reports and UPI reports on record.
he death toll is believed to be between 300 confirmed dead and about 1000's
maimed and missing, with over 12,000 black labors and their families having
fled to St. Louis Mo., abandoning all their worldly possessions as over 3
miles of almost 300 black homes were burned to the ground and over 300
railroad cars were destroyed. All under the nose of the Illinois National
Guard, who assisted and aid it the massacre. Their slogan was "have you
killed your nigger today?
Blacks were systematically searched and disarmed months prior to the main
riot of July 2nd through the 12th. Police had set free many whites who
killed unoffending Black men, women and children from every section of Black
life regardless of age, sex or social status. If you were Black in East
Saint Louis, you had 2 choices. You were either dead, or moving. One white
stated loud and boastfully that "I killed so many niggers today I am tired."
Some one else will have to kill the rest of them". The police the set bail
and let him go without collecting it or prosecuting him later. Their role
was more or less to setup the murders by stopping and disarming Blacks, then
standing back so the crowed� of whites cheered their fellow countrymen who
beat maimed and murdered, in a coliseum like atmosphere. Purely an event of
homicidal entertainment at it's best, or worse, depending on how you view
it.
The Black Holocaust Society, was organized for, and dedicated to, the
preservation and dissimulation of information related to African American
holocaustic historic events. We are not funded by any other sources, and the
funds are needed to petition the Congress of the United States of America to
release all records in it's possession on this massacre, and other sealed
documents related to other hidden events of the same nature.
So your support is required and is essential to establishing a solid basis
for reparations, and in general, proving to the world for all time, that the
Black people in North America, have a legitimate claim to their cries for a
better life on this rock called America, the land of the free.
These documents were sealed and never revealed until 1986 and with your
donation, you will get a text version of the transcribed sets and future
historic documents will be offered as they are discovered and received by
us.
Every Black person from 8 to 80 must read these documents as the tale of the
greatest criminal act in American History unfolds and is finally explained
in full detail. None of the wordings have been altered. The documents
reflect the views of their original authors and that's what we are about.
Preserving the word, so that you as Black Americans can see the ultimate end
of a racist society.
Many questions are to be asked and are answered about Greatest Atrocity in
modern American times
Find out how far they have gone in the past systematically murdering us
without
your knowledge or your father's or your grandfather?
Where were the Christian views and ways when they threw 2 year old Black
children in front of moving autos?
Where were their ethics when in a Mardi Gra atmosphere Black bodies burned
street after street, after street?
What is the ultimate end of racism?
How vile can one man be to another, and yet still conceive himself
civilized.
Why should every Black home have a gun in the house?
How far will our government go to keep secretes like this from you?
What are the many reasons for today's race problems.
Why the need for Blacks to unit for the sake of the race is vital to our
very
existence as a people.
And why regardless of your political, social, or economic standing you as a
Black
American, MUST live and die like men, and not so many rats in a barrel.
When whites feel deprived of their so called heritage; why do they become
the most
efficient killing machines on earth. NOTHING KILLS LIKE DEPRAVED WHITE
FOLKS.
NOT MAN NO BEAST"
This 23 page report is all that is needed to get white Americans to reflect,
and
come to grips with the fact that his advantage in society today originated
from ill-gotten
gains acquired and passed on by their murdering ancestors, at the cost of
millions of
Black men, women and children over the life of this nation.
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How gun control laws are used to control Blacks.
How organized labor is not really a Black mans friend.
And many, many more questions, that explain how and why we are in the
position we are in today.
The Black Holocaust Society
1027 E. Pleasant Street. #206
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202
Thank You For your interest.
Together We Can New Worlds
Gregory E. Brown, Director
AKA The Angry Black Man
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These documents will be emailed to donors in the word processor format of
their choice, so please state the preferred format.� Snail-Mail hardcopies
are also available. One we reach our goal, all documents and photos will be
published as a memorial and as a permanent cyber place for history lovers to
do reports. We shall no longer tolerate the non disclosure of information we
should have received years ago.
The US government still wishes that you not read this document. It may have
to find, tried and convict over 60,000 white grandparents of mob decent.
They also don't want Negroes" to have felling of Retribution or� they
don't want to have to make Reparationsfor past injustices. Either way,
you must seek the truth and pass it on to your friends and family.