Why Did The Population Occur In The 19th Century
The reoccurring violence in Cairo Il caused a huge decline in the population over time. Riots, mobs, and lynchings were happening everywhere you turned. The main reason that lynchings were happening were from rapes. Another major event and events that happened that caused a huge decline in the population was all of the mob activities. What would cause such events like these to occur? Why would someone want to do cruel events like raping an innocent women? What would cause someone to do so much as going and causing a mob to happen? Cairo Il used to be a big town that was up and growing.. It used to be a town was a major rail road industry, Cairo was a place where trains would meet and drop and goods and supplies to the town. Cairo’s population at the time was mostly blacks. Once segregation had started, thats when the population started slowly declining day by day. Cairo wanted to be a town just for white americans. Cairo closed almost everything from stores to parks from blacks coming into them. White americans had got to the point where if a black american would go into an area that was off limits to them, they would either beat them to death or hang them. Segregation caused a pretty good decline in the population over time. Once black americans
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After miss Pelley’s brothers were contacted, they went on a rage and got a huge crowd of people together. The crowd had demanded and took possession of a freight train with 300 men with cars. After the crowd was chasing them for a while they started firing shots and the train and threatened them that if they don't stop they would burn the prisoner alive. After the train had stopped on Tenth Street, the prisoner was dragged with a rope to Eighth Street. The crowd had fired gun shots saying “You dog! You black brute! Kill him! Burn him!’ (pg 51,
After miss Pelley’s brothers were contacted, they went on a rage and got a huge crowd of people together. The crowd had demanded and took possession of a freight train with 300 men with cars. After the crowd was chasing them for a while they started firing shots and the train and threatened them that if they don't stop they would burn the prisoner alive. After the train had stopped on Tenth Street, the prisoner was dragged with a rope to Eighth Street. The crowd had fired gun shots saying “You dog! You black brute! Kill him! Burn him!’ (pg 51,