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__**Summary:**__ The violence started in Washington County, Texas when democrats were determined to keep the political control they had won through fraud in 1884. Masked democrats attempted to steal ballot boxes in a Republican precinct but armed black men resisted them and one of the black men shot and killed one of the white men. Eight black men were arrested. Then a group of white men broke into the jail and kidnapped the men, hanging them. The democratic sheriff didn’t investigate the case of the hangings, but still charged the black man who killed the white man in the first place to 25 years in prison. Then later the Phoenix Riot went on when a Republican candidate for congress told black men to fill out an affidavit if they were not permitted to vote, so a riot went on and eventually the candidate was wounded and many black men were murdered. Then there started to be a hate between the Republicans and the Democrats. Anther riot, called the Wilmington riot, started up. Democrats were going to do anything to stop any Republicans for office or Congress, etc. to gain power and they weren’t afraid to use violence if needed. Then later on a white mob destroyed a newspaper office. The violence was tried to get under control, but wasn’t handled well enough, leading to minutes later more black men being murdered. After that a third riot started called the New Orleans riot. A 34-year-old laborer named Robert Charles wanted rights and was angry about hanging. On July 23, he was harassed by white police officers. The officer attempted to beat Charles with a nights stick but failed so both pulled out a gun, each man wounding the other. Charles fled, but was tracked down. Trying to save himself, Charles had a Winchester rifle and attempted to fight off his enemies, killing twenty-seven white people with his tactical skills, four of them being police officers until he was killed. During four days that went by after the killing of Charles, at least twelve more black people were killed. Since hanging began to be very common, white people justified hanging as a response to a the threat black people showed to the virtue of white women. Abuse of black women started to show and black women were considered inferior and immortal.

This topic relates to equality and liberty because it deals with arguments between the equality, liberty, and rights that some people have and some people don’t and those arguments can start huge accidents. An example of this would be when Republicans were first attempting to steal ballot boxes and the black man shooting one of the men was not really trying to kill someone, he was just trying to protect himself, others, and the ballot boxes and he still gets blamed for doing something wrong just because he was a different race and a different party. Also this topic relates to liberty and equality because it shows the lack of liberty and equality. And here is the link to our commercial. And this is the link to our commercial.
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