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The Atlanta Riot (1907)

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'Baker's description of the Atlanta riot...reads like the story of a
Russian massacre...the fury of the moreached the highest
pitch.' i Chattanooga Daily Times, March 24, 1907 i 'One of the
nation's bestknown muckraking journalists, Ray Stannard
Baker, interviewed residents...and concluded that the cops had
started it.' i The Atlanta Constitution, Sept. 17, 2006 i 'Baker is
honestly trying to get at the truth...on the Atlanta riot.' i
CourierJournal, Louisville, April 24, 1907 i 'In the aftermath of
the Atlanta riot, Booker and Oswald Villard had asked the
muckraking journalist Ray Stannard Baker to investigate the
causes of the causes of the riot.' i Up from History: The Life of
Booker T. Washington (2011) i What sparked the deadly
Atlanta riot of 1906, and who was most to blame for the
carnage?Sent to investigate the scene and interview survivors,
famous journalist Ray Stannard Baker (18701946) offers some
surprising answers in his highly acclaimed 1907 book, 'The
Atlanta Riot.'The Atlanta riot of 1906 was a series of racially
motivated violent attacks by armed mobs that began on the
evening of September 22, 1906, and lasted through
September 24, resulting in the deaths estimated at 100
citizens. The events were reported by newspapers around the
world, and the violence did not end until after Governor Terrell
called in the Georgia National Guard.In introducing his book,
Baker writes:'Upon the ocean of antagonism between the
white and negro races in this country, there arises occasionally
a wave, stormy in its appearance, but soon subsiding into
quietude. Such a wave was the Atlanta riot. Its ominous size,
greater by far than the ordinary race disturbances which
express themselves in lynchings, alarmed the entire country
and awakened in the South a new sense of the dangers which
threatened it.'About the author:Ray Stannard Baker (April 17,

1870 – July 12, 1946) was an American journalist, historian,
biographer, and author. In 1898 Baker joined the staff of
McClure's, a pioneer muckraking magazine, and quickly rose
to prominence.In 1907, dissatisfied with the muckraker label,
Baker, Steffens, and Tarbell left McClure's and founded The
American Magazine. In 1908 after the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot
got him involved, Baker published the book about it, becoming
the first prominent journalist to examine America's racial
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