Books and films have told the stories of the Rosewood massacre and the Tulsa race riot - two attacks on black communities by white mobs in the 1920s. There's far less information about a similar ...
Constance Hollie-Juwaid wants to unearth the truth. The great, great granddaughter of Jack Holley, who was a survivor of the attack on Black residents in Slocum and surrounding areas 111 years ago, ...
In just a few days on July 29-30, it will be exactly 114 years ago to the very day that Blacks in the unincorporated community of Slocum in Anderson County, Texas were victims of a 1910 genocidal ...
Bills, a Fort Worth-area journalist, wrote The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas, published in 2014. He said that while the origins of the attack remain in dispute, references to ...
AUSTIN - Nobody can say for sure how many of their black neighbors the white people of Slocum, Texas, wiped out during a killing rampage in 1910. Constance Hollie-Jawaid, a great-granddaughter of ...