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Media is wrong about Orlando shootings headlines, “The deadliest”in U.S History, false! How soon we want to forget
American History! Orlando
Shootings shouldn’t ever happen and my heart goes out those individuals who
lost their lives and I extend my prayers to their families. However, I don’t
appreciate that the media wants to erase American History and that Orlando shootings
was the largest and deadliest massacre in U.S History! Please correct your
headline error! The largest and deadliest massacre and hate crimes in U.S. History is below ! During
those times survivors and witness of these crimes and murders assert that newspapers did not report the true
total number of deaths.
East Louis Massacre 1917 200- 700 The East St. Louis riots (also known as the East
St. Louis massacres) of May and July
1917 were an outbreak of labor- and race-related violence that
caused between 40 and 200 deaths and extensive property damage.
Arkansas Massacre 1919 America’s Forgotten Mass Lynching: When 237 People Were Murdered in Arkansas
Wounded Knee Massacre 1890 approximately 200 dead
Pine Ridge Reservation Massacre 1975 approximately 100 dead
Tulsa Massacre 1921 About 40 blocks were destroyed, including 1,256
homes, many of which had been looted before they were set alight. The death
toll, most likely never to be fully determined, was estimated in the state
report at 100 to 300.
Rosewood Massacre 1923 as many as 150 people were killed
References
Harper Barnes, Never Been a Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked the Civil
Rights Movement. New York: Walker & Company, 2008.
Elliott M. Ruckwick, Race Riot at East St. Louis, July 2, 1917. Carbondale:
University of Illinois Press, 1982.
Charles L. Lumpkins, American Pogrom: The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics.
Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008.
U. S. House of Representatives,
Special Committee on East St. Louis Riots, East St. Louis Riots. Washington:
GPO, 1918.
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