| | | They started out harsh but not so much on freed slaves treatment. Eventually the North just wanted to move on and pulled the occupying troops out and blacks went into a diferent slavery
Assaults and Lynching: States with Black populations, particularly those that had seceded, prohibited Black people from handling weapons and saw disproportionate numbers of former soldiers who were assaulted, driven from their homes, and lynched
So yes the south was punished economically and carpet baggers screwing them but little was done about black treatment.
If blacks started a successful business they were targeted ......as years went on and they started successful towns these also were destroyed
The most prominent example of a successful Black town that was bombed and destroyed by a white mob is the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma—popularly known as "Black Wall Street"—during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
During the two-day massacre on May 31 and June 1, 1921, white residents, many of whom were deputized and armed by city officials, attacked the thriving Black community. Private aircraft were even used to drop dynamite and crude incendiary bombs on Greenwood, a unique and devastating aspect of the attack.
The violence resulted in:
- The deaths of an estimated 30 to 300 Black people.
- Over 35 square blocks of the district being burned to the ground.
- More than 1,200 homes and numerous businesses being destroyed.
- Approximately 10,000 residents being left homeless.
Other successful Black communities were also destroyed or subjected to massacres by white mobs in U.S. history, though the Tulsa incident is particularly noted for the use of aerial bombing and the extent of the destruction of a wealthy, self-sufficient community:
- Rosewood, Florida (1923): A violent white mob attacked and burned down the predominantly Black town after a white woman falsely claimed to have been assaulted by a Black man.
- Ocoee, Florida (1920): The Black community in Ocoee was burned to the ground and many residents were killed or expelled by white mobs after Black residents attempted to exercise their right to vote on Election Day.
- East St. Louis, Illinois (1917): Racial tensions over jobs led to a riot where white mobs killed dozens of Black people, burned hundreds of homes, and drove thousands from the city.
- Wilmington, North Carolina (1898): A mob of armed white supremacists overthrew the elected government, killed many Black residents, and torched Black-owned businesses and a local newspaper office in what is considered the only coup d'état in U.S. history.
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