The Brownsville Affair
Author | : Ann J. Lane |
Publisher | : Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ann J. Lane |
Publisher | : Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Edgar Borah |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 27 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Brownsville (Tex.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Downing Weaver |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780890965283 |
The book that prompted congressional action to rectify a U.S. president's shocking act of racism.
Author | : Ricardo Malbrew |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9783836434164 |
The argument of reparations on behalf of African-Americans based on slavery continues well into the 21st Century here in America. Can a gross miscarriage of injustice in 1906 sway the arguments for compensatory damages become valid based on racism? The case of the all-black 25th Infantry of the United States Army in the Brownsville Affair is perhaps one of the most egregious events in American history. On the night of August 13, 1906, a group of anonymous men went on a shooting rampage throughout the town of Brownsville, Texas, leaving one person dead and another wounded. There had been hostilities between black soldiers and white civilians prior to the shootings; therefore, it did not take long for local authorities to assume the collective guilt of black soldiers. Without an adequate investigation or a full hearing, President Roosevelt bowed to public pressure and issued dishonorable discharges to all members of the 25th who were stationed in Brownsville. Following their immediate discharge from the United States Army in December 1906, many of these soldiers were refused civilian employment due to their military status. This book is a reexamination of the Brownsville affair and its aftermath and seeks to make a case for restitution on behalf of the discharged soldiers and their families.
Author | : Ann J. Lane |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Brownsville (Tex.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert E. Hanlon |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2013-08-06 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 0809332639 |
On November 8, 1985, 18-year-old Tom Odle brutally murdered his parents and three siblings in the small southern Illinois town of Mount Vernon, sending shockwaves throughout the nation. The murder of the Odle family remains one of the most horrific family mass murders in U.S. history. Odle was sentenced to death and, after seventeen years on death row, expected a lethal injection to end his life. However, Illinois governor George Ryan’s moratorium on the death penalty in 2000, and later commutation of all death sentences in 2003, changed Odle’s sentence to natural life. The commutation of his death sentence was an epiphany for Odle. Prior to the commutation of his death sentence, Odle lived in denial, repressing any feelings about his family and his horrible crime. Following the commutation and the removal of the weight of eventual execution associated with his death sentence, he was confronted with an unfamiliar reality. A future. As a result, he realized that he needed to understand why he murdered his family. He reached out to Dr. Robert Hanlon, a neuropsychologist who had examined him in the past. Dr. Hanlon engaged Odle in a therapeutic process of introspection and self-reflection, which became the basis of their collaboration on this book. Hanlon tells a gripping story of Odle’s life as an abused child, the life experiences that formed his personality, and his tragic homicidal escalation to mass murder, seamlessly weaving into the narrative Odle’s unadorned reflections of his childhood, finding a new family on death row, and his belief in the powers of redemption. As our nation attempts to understand the continual mass murders occurring in the U.S., Survived by One sheds some light on the psychological aspects of why and how such acts of extreme carnage may occur. However, Survived by One offers a never-been-told perspective from the mass murderer himself, as he searches for the answers concurrently being asked by the nation and the world.
Author | : Chester V. Bowie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Brownsville (Tex.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jerald E. Podair |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2004-12-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780300109405 |
"This book revisits the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis - a watershed in modern New York City race relations. Jerald E. Podair connects the conflict with the sociocultural history of the city and explores its influence on city politics, economics, and culture. Podair shows how the crisis became a symbol of the vast perceptual chasm separating black and white New Yorkers. And the legacy of this critical moment, when blacks and whites spoke past each other like strangers, has ever since played a role in city issues ranging from mayoral elections to budget negotiations, disputes over police violence, and debates on welfare policy. The book is a powerful, sobering tale of racial misunderstanding and fear, a New York story with national implications."--Jacket.
Author | : Harry Lembeck |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 161614954X |
In August 1906, black soldiers stationed in Brownsville, Texas, were accused of going on a lawless rampage in which shots were fired, one man was killed, and another wounded. Because the perpetrators could never be positively identified, President Theodore Roosevelt took the highly unusual step of discharging without honor all one hundred sixty-seven members of the black battalion on duty the night of the shooting. This book investigates the controversial action of an otherwise much-lauded president, the challenge to his decision from a senator of his own party, and the way in which Roosevelt's uncompromising stance affected African American support of the party of Lincoln. Using primary sources to reconstruct the events, attorney Harry Lembeck begins at the end when Senator Joseph Foraker is honored by the black community in Washington, DC, for his efforts to reverse Roosevelt's decision. Lembeck highlights Foraker's courageous resistance to his own president. In addition, he examines the larger context of racism in the era of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, pointing out that Roosevelt treated discrimination against the Japanese in the West much differently. He also notes often-ignored evidence concerning the role of Roosevelt's illegitimate cousin in the president's decision, the possibility that Foraker and Roosevelt had discussed a compromise, and other hitherto overlooked facts about the case. Sixty-seven years after the event, President Richard Nixon finally undid Roosevelt's action by honorably discharging the men of the Brownsville Battalion. But, as this thoroughly researched and engrossing narrative shows, the damage done to both Roosevelt's reputation and black support for the Republican Party lingers to this day.
Author | : John Downing Weaver |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780890967485 |
Weaver's narrative explores these tangled lives against the background of "the color line," which W. E. B. Du Bois defined in 1903 as "the problem of the twentieth century."