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The Red Summer Of 1919
1919
The summer of 1919, better known as the Red Summer of 1919, impacted Samuel J. Battle’s well-being. He recalled as the war was coming to an end, our country recorded 78 lynchings of Blacks, including the lynching of Mary and Haynes Turner in Georgia. As Battle was looking to become a Sergeant, he was very outspoken on the issues between law enforcement and the black community. In 1919, after racial violence-plagued cities in the North, it was noted that Battle suffered "guilt by association."
Battle went on the record saying, "This was one of the problems inherited by the Negro policeman in New York City at that time. His duty was to uphold the law, but Negro citizens looked at the law across a bitter color bar."
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