The Encyclopedia of Arkansas gives the following report on racist white mobs in 1919. It starts by saying a small posse of armed white men showed up to violently disrupt a meeting of Blacks having a peaceful meeting. The white assailants were shot dead in the firefight: Though accounts of who fired the first shots … Continue reading This Day in History 1919: “America First” Massacre of Blacks in Elaine, Arkansas
Details found in the U.S. ODNI reader under “Counterintelligence in WWII” First, the Japanese are alerted by Nazis that their Ambassador’s code messages are being monitored by the U.S. and “drastic steps should be taken” in response. From: Berlin (Oshima) 3 May 1941 To: Tokyo (Matsuoka) #482 STAAMAA called me this day (evening?) and stating … Continue reading “America First” Attempted to Impeach and Assassinate U.S. President
Recently I wrote about a country song of encoded KKK/Nazi signals, called “The Big Revival“. It got me thinking about whether a map might show how a KKK revival happened as a result of Woodrow Wilson’s “America First” campaign platform in 1915. And then I found someone at Virginia Commonwealth University already had gone to … Continue reading Mapping “America First” Revival of the KKK
The threat of a “bloodbath” if Americans don’t vote for a white supremacist is something right out of the history books. This sort of domestic terrorism as a campaign platform sounds like Horatio Seymour in 1868: In Ohio campaign rally, Trump says there will be a “bloodbath” if he loses November election Or as the … Continue reading Trump Invokes 1868 Seymour Presidential Campaign KKK Tactics With “Bloodbath” Threat to America