Blood in the Streets - Racism, Riots and Murders in the Heartland of America by Daniel L. Baker & Gwen Nalls

Author:Daniel L. Baker & Gwen Nalls [Baker, Daniel L. & Nalls, Gwen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Serial Killers, Murder, Discrimination, Civil Rights, Social Science, Political Science, True Crime
ISBN: 9780989845007
Google: rQm_ngEACAAJ
Goodreads: 19505916
Publisher: Forensic Publications
Published: 2014-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Out of public view, several black groups rejected the non-violent approach. They secretly planned for retaliation against the ‘honkeys’ at DPD. In fact, Dayton Police Captain O’Conner was told by DPD’s Intelligence Unit that threats by black militants had been uncovered to “get a police officer in a vulnerable position”, to get even.

A large rally was held at the vacant parking lot at West Third and North Conover Streets on Friday, January 26, 1968. Over five hundred people marched and protested the acquittal of Detective Collier. Before the rally, a flyer was distributed that gave an ultimatum to the City of Dayton Police. Although billed as a non-violent protest, the flyer threatened violence in retaliation if more blacks were shot by police.

“This is the last rally. This is our final warning. This racist city must decide whether it wants to treat black human beings with dignity or whether it wants to be destroyed. We want to put this town on notice that we will not see another black man barbarously gunned down in the streets without retaliation in kind.”

Charles Tate, Chairman of the Dayton Alliance for Racial Equality, called for a boycott of downtown stores and said, “For black people there will be no Easter and Christmas in 1968.” He added, “We are no longer afraid. We shall boycott, we shall strike and we shall shoot when we’re threatened by white racists.”

Civil Rights leader Sumpter McIntosh joined Tate and others as the march made its way east on West Third Street to the bridge that spanned the Great Miami River. As they reached midpoint of the bridge, the march stopped in silence to reflect on the hated symbolism of the bridge and its line of demarcation between blacks and whites. The group then continued into downtown where it ended at West Second and Ludlow Streets, the exact location where Barbee was shot. After prayers, marchers broke up and a few hundred walked back across the Great Miami River to West Third Street. Each step on the bridge took demonstrators deeper into the forsaken part of the city where poverty, discrimination and violence lived on.

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