Right now it is time for the Way Black History Effect. And today's Way Black History Effect is sponsored by Underground Beach Club from the Streets to the Beach. For the latest in beach where visit Underground Beach Club dot com. And you know what, We're going to share a video. You can just listen, but you know, imagine all the pictures or you know, for those looking online you can see the video. This is from our comrade Chris Dyer three. You're encouraged to give him a follow at chrisdre three.
He's discussing the US concentration camps in the nineteen twenties and another way the government violated their agreements with black Americans. By the way, this has been verified. We did our research. You can check the notes at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. That's at n in AA HC dot SI dot EEDU. I know that's a lot, but again the National National Museum of African American History and Culture. Check it out. Facts go ahead.
You know that the US had concentration camps in the late nineteen twenties. In nineteen twenty seven, levees along the mississip River burst in over one hundred forty five places, but in a region the size of New England, over one hundred thousand homes were destroyed, Farmland and livestock was ruined, Hundreds died, and seven hundred thousand people in Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi were displaced. President Calvin Coolidge didn't believe in federal intervention,
so he appointed Herbert Hoover to oversee the Red Cross's efforts. Coastguard, Army, and Navy rounded up those displaced into Red Cross camps, which were segregated by race. Since this was during Jim Crow In Mississippi, black camps quickly turned into labor camps.
Plantation owners requested the governor and the National Guard to ensure black residents stayed to work and to guard them against quote a possible influx of labor agents who would seize this opportunity to take the refugees to the north and give them work. Whites were allowed to evacuate, but black men were ordered to quote stay and establish camps. Houseless. Black women and children also stayed in these camps to
be with their sons and fathers. Black men were ordered by whites they did not know to repair homes, business and plantations signs in Mississippi Red Refugee labor is free to all white men. Those who didn't work or tried to escape were beaten or killed by National Guard troops patrolling the camps. Black evacuees were forced to repair levees, clean towns, and haul supplies off ships and into camps,
trudging for miles through knee deep water and mud. While whites enjoyed cooked meat and tanned peaches, black camps only received bread. Whites received new clothes and healthcare, and moved into large stores and hotels, while black evacuees lived along livestock and slept outside on wet ground. Over three hundred thousand Black Americans were interned in one hundred fifty four camps. In some camps, black men were forced to wear collars to keep track of work assignments and wood plantation they
came from. Since Coolidge didn't provide funds, Hoover and the Red Cross manufactured a positive image with the media to get funds, so they kept the physical detainment and denial of proper food and shelter a secret. People from across the country donated to charity unaware that their funds were siphoned to uphold these camps the cover of Bolster. Hooper's reputation is a great humanitarian and this national hero persona
catapulted him to the presidency. After the camp's closed due to lack of funds, millions of black Southerners left the South, exacerbating the Great Migration. Historians applied the term concentration camps because of forced labor, deplorable conditions, and the imprisonment of innocent people of one particular group. You won't find this history in US classrooms or textbooks. Know that.
What do you think too? I wish I was shocked.
It's information that I didn't know, but it's not information that.
Surprises me in any way. The Red Cross, eh yeah, I just found it out to anyway Again, That video came from our comrade at Chris Dire three. You should definitely check them out if you enjoyed learning how messed up America has been to black people as he got you all day