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  • Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
    Oct, 1919
    Walt Disney

    Disney return

    Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
    Oct, 1919

    Disney returned to Kansas City in October 1919, where he worked as an apprentice artist at the Pesmen-Rubin Commercial Art Studio. There, he drew commercial illustrations for advertising, theater programs and catalogs. He also befriended fellow artist Ub Iwerks.




  • Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
    Friday Oct 3, 1919
    Red Summer

    Baltimore riot

    Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
    Friday Oct 3, 1919

    A riot started by white Navy bluejackets against an entire black neighborhood was quickly quelled by the police.




  • U.S.
    Oct, 1919
    Red Summer

    Dr. George Edmund Haynes was a call to national action

    U.S.
    Oct, 1919

    The October 1919 report by Dr. George Edmund Haynes was a call to national action, was published in The New York Times and other major newspapers. Haynes noted that lynchings were a national problem. As President Wilson had noted in a 1918 speech: from 1889–1918, more than 3,000 people had been lynched; 2,472 were black men, and 50 were black women. Haynes said that states had shown themselves "unable or unwilling" to put a stop to lynchings, and seldom prosecuted the murderers. The fact that white men had been lynched in the North as well, he argued, demonstrated the national nature of the overall problem: "It is idle to suppose that murder can be confined to one section of the country or to one race."




  • U.S.
    Oct, 1919
    Marcus Garvey

    Assassination attempt

    U.S.
    Oct, 1919

    In October 1919, George Tyler, a part-time vendor of the Negro World, entered the UNIA office and tried to assassinate Garvey. The latter received two bullets in his legs but survived. Tyler was soon apprehended but died in an escape attempt from jail; it was never revealed why he tried to kill Garvey. Garvey soon recovered from his wounds; five days later he gave a public speech in Philadelphia.[178] After the assassination attempt, Garvey hired a bodyguard, Marcellus Strong.




  • Corbin, Kentucky, U.S.
    Friday Oct 31, 1919
    Red Summer

    Corbin race riot

    Corbin, Kentucky, U.S.
    Friday Oct 31, 1919

    Corbin, Kentucky race riot of 1919 was a race riot in 1919 in which a white mob forced nearly all the town's 200 black residents onto a freight train out of town, and a sundown town policy until the late 20th century.




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