[NFBF-Melbourne] FW: On This Day: October 13, 1920

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Subject: Fwd: On This Day: October 13, 1920

Reading about Black History, that some people want to remove from our American History. Racism causes people to hate others for no good reason at all. We must stand up against all kinds of division and violence in our local communities. Please seriously consider Diversity and Inclusion when you cast your ballots in November. America is a nation that is made up of all people regardless of their race or culture. 

Marilyn Baldwin 

Chairman 

Diversity Committee 

NFBF 

(407)810-0554 

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From: A History of Racial Injustice <maya at eji.org <mailto:maya at eji.org> >
Date: October 13, 2024 at 9:30:09 AM EDT
To: Marilyn Baldwin <commmdb at aol.com <mailto:commmdb at aol.com> >
Subject: On This Day: October 13, 1920
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On this day
October 13, 1920

Black Community in Roxboro, NC, Required to Leave or Face Racial Violence

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On October 13, 1920, members of the Black community in Roxboro, North Carolina, were terrorized by an ongoing campaign from a white lynch mob, threatening them to leave their homes or face racial violence.

In July 1920, a mob of local white residents in Roxboro seized an innocent Black farmworker, Ed Roach, from the Person County Jail where he was being held for alleged sexual impropriety with a white girl. In broad daylight, the mob took Mr. Roach to the churchyard, hanged him from a tree, and riddled his body with bullets. In the days after the lynching, Mr. Roach’s employer signed a written statement affirming Mr. Roach’s innocence, stating that he had been working with him when the crime occurred. No one was held accountable for his death.  

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After lynching an innocent man, the white mob sought to further terrorize members of the Black community. The self-identified “Person County Mob” claimed credit for the lynching and began distributing letters and threatening death, bombing, and other violence in an attempt to drive the Black community out of Person County.

In the early weeks of October, a Black community member received a letter signed by the “Person County Mob” that instructed him to leave town “or face a fate similar to that suffered by Ed Roach.” For weeks, each day, more letters were sent by the “Person County Mob” that called for the removal of the Black community from Roxboro or threatened violence.

An older Black woman who lived in a predominantly white area of the county received a letter telling her to move from her home within one week or face violence. She refused to move, and sticks of dynamite were detonated at her home while she was in it, tearing out the windows and doors of her house. She survived but was forced to move from her home.

In addition, white landowners were told to assist in getting Black tenants to leave and everyone was required to support the eviction of Black residents. No one was ever held accountable for this violence and terrorism in Person County.

Racial terror violence displaced entire Black communities throughout the South, and hundreds of thousands of Black people fled as refugees from violent campaigns that used fear and intimidation to ensure white supremacy and racial hierarchy. To learn more, read EJI’s report,  <https://eji.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5302a55650ba8ed477e3a2953&id=625b746aac&e=db138ebdaa> Lynching in America.   

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