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Jim Crow awarded for disrupting the Arsenal of Democracy with the 1943 Detroit Race Riots, 1943

The 1943 Detroit race riot took place in Detroit, Michigan, of the United States, from the evening of June 20 through the early morning of June 22. The race riot was ultimately suppressed by the use of 6,000 federal troops. It occurred in a period of dramatic population increase and social tensions associated with the military buildup of World War II, as Detroit’s automotive industry was converted to the war effort.

The rioting in Detroit began among youths at Belle Isle Park on June 20, 1943; the unrest moved into the city proper and was exacerbated by false rumors of racial attacks in both the black and white communities. It continued until June 22. It was suppressed after 6,000 federal troops were ordered into the city to restore peace. A total of 34 people were killed, 25 of them black and most at the hands of white police or National Guardsmen; 433 were wounded, 75 percent of them black; and property valued at $2 million ($27.5 million in 2015 US dollars) was destroyed, most of it in the black area of Paradise Valley, the poorest neighborhood of the city.

scherrer and hicks, 1973

The rioting in Detroit began among youths at Belle Isle Park on June 20, 1943; the unrest moved into the city proper and was exacerbated by false rumors of racial attacks in both the black and white communities. It continued until June 22. It was suppressed after 6,000 federal troops were ordered into the city to restore peace. A total of 34 people were killed, 25 of them black and most at the hands of white police or National Guardsmen; 433 were wounded, 75 percent of them black; and property valued at $2 million ($27.5 million in 2015 US dollars) was destroyed, most of it in the black area of Paradise Valley, the poorest neighborhood of the city.

The rioting in Detroit began among youths at Belle Isle Park on June 20, 1943; the unrest moved into the city proper and was exacerbated by false rumors of racial attacks in both the black and white communities. It continued until June 22. It was suppressed after 6,000 federal troops were ordered into the city to restore peace. A total of 34 people were killed, 25 of them black and most at the hands of white police or National Guardsmen; 433 were wounded, 75 percent of them black; and property valued at $2 million ($27.5 million in 2015 US dollars) was destroyed, most of it in the black area of Paradise Valley, the poorest neighborhood of the city.

ahmadfahoum:

İlk Hilal-ı Ahmer Sergisi, İstanbul 1917-1335

The First Red Crescent Exhibition, Istanbul 1917-1335

This is a guidebook for a health exhibition organized by the Ottoman Red Crescent Society during World War I. The exhibition is part of the Ottoman wartime propaganda, but also a carefully organized exhibition to display the work of the Red Crescent.

İlk Hilal-ı Ahmer Sergisi, İstanbul 1917-1335

The First Red Crescent Exhibition, Istanbul 1917-1335

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August 23, 1918 – Semyonov Becomes Bandit-King of Baikal

Pictured – Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov, the Japanese-supported White warlord who controlled much of the southeastern Siberian steppe.

The Russian Revolution brought a host of colorful characters to the forefront of history, many of them unsavory. A chief example was Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov, a Cossack cavalryman who established himself as a major warlord throughout the Russian far east. The outbreak of the Czech Revolt in May 1918 liberated much of Russia from the Bolsheviks, and allowed new political movements to organize behind the shield of the disciplined Czechs. Some of these were principled groups with ideological aims, like politicians who gathered in Omsk to discuss Siberian independence.

Semyonov was not one of them. A minor figure in the Russian war effort posted near Lake Baikal, the 28-year old Cossack sensed an opportunity amid his country’s chaos. Although a monarchist who hated the Bolsheviks, Semyonov cared more about plunder than ideology, and although Semyonov became a satrap of the White Siberian leader Admiral Kolchak, he was essentially a bandit chieftan of Transbaikal. He owed his success to Japanese arms, which the Tokyo government was happy to supply, hoping to keep Russia in a state of anarchy while they stripped it of its eastern resources. In August Semyonov drove Red troops out of Transbaikal entirely, shoring up his rule. It lasted until the very end of the civil war, after which Semyonov fled for exile in China, only to be captured finally by the Red Army and executed in 1945.

Semyonov, Cosaque