{"id":28624,"date":"2022-02-10T10:01:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T10:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/?p=28624"},"modified":"2022-02-10T10:01:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T10:01:40","slug":"no-justice-in-augusta-remembering-a-little-known-race-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/no-justice-in-augusta-remembering-a-little-known-race-riot\/","title":{"rendered":"No Justice in Augusta: Remembering a Little Known Race Riot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We can document almost everything around us with devices of all kinds, but in 1970, there were few cameras around when police opened fire on crowds in Augusta, Georgia. <\/p>\n

A protest-turned-riot over the brutal murder of a Black teenager left six Black men dead from police bullets. There was never justice for any of the deaths, including 16-year-old Charles Oatman, who died in the Richmond County Jail. The story of that riot remains relatively unknown among Augusta residents both Black and white. <\/p>\n

Us & Them host Trey Kay talks with podcast producer Sea Stachura about her award-winning work, \u201cShots in the Back: Exhuming the 1970 Augusta Riot.\u201d Historians call it one of the largest uprisings of the Civil Rights Era in the Deep South.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This episode of Us & Them<\/i> is presented with support from the Greater Kanawha Valley Fund, CRC Foundation and the West Virginia Humanities Council.<\/p>\n

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Charles Oatman in his A.R. Johnson Junior High School yearbook portrait. On Saturday, May 9, the news of the 16-year-old\u2019s torture and brutal death brought long-simmering frustrations about racial injustice to a boiling point. <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Augusta College Yearbook<\/p>\n

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Black protesters gather in front of the Municipal Building in Augusta, GA mid-afternoon on Monday, May 11 to demand answers from law enforcement officials about the circumstances of the death of Charles Oatman. <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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On May 11, 1970, this was 9th Street (today it\u2019s James Brown Blvd) at the intersection of D\u2019Antignac Street in Augusta, GA, where working-class African American residents ransacked White-owned Hill\u2019s Food Store. <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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White-owned Snow\u2019s Laundry and Dry Cleaning in Augusta, GA goes up in flames after a firebombing. <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Policemen with shotguns occupy a part of Augusta where protesters overturned the car of a white motorist. <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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New England Free Press \/ Library of Congress<\/p>\n

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“Don’t mourn … organize! Remember the Augusta six.” poster from 1970.<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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RTDNA – Edward R. Murrow Awards<\/p>\n

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Sea Stachura bobbles her award at the 2021 National Edward R. Murrow Honors in New York City.<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n