2 hrs 49 mins | Childrens Fiction | Social Themes | Prejudice and Racism"The bloodiest week which New Orleans has known since the massacre of the Italians in 1892 was ushered in Monday, July 24, by the inexcusable and unprovoked assault upon two colored men by police officers of New Orleans. Fortified by the assurance born of long experience in the New Orleans service, three policemen, Sergeant Aucoin, Officer Mora and Officer Cantrelle, observing two colored men sitting on doorsteps on Dryades street, between Washington Avenue and 6th Streets, determined, without a shadow of authority, to arrest them. One of the colored men was named Robert Charles, the other was...
"The bloodiest week which New Orleans has known since the massacre of the Italians in 1892 was ushered in Monday, July 24, by the inexcusable and unprovoked assault upon two colored men by police officers of New Orleans. Fortified by the assurance born of long experience in the New Orleans service, three policemen, Sergeant Aucoin, Officer Mora and Officer Cantrelle, observing two colored men sitting on doorsteps on Dryades street, between Washington Avenue and 6th Streets, determined, without a shadow of authority, to arrest them. One of the colored men was named Robert Charles, the other was a lad of nineteen named Leonard Pierce. The colored men had left their homes, a few blocks distant, about an hour prior, and had been sitting upon the doorsteps for a short time talking together. They had not broken the peace in any way whatever, no warrant was in the policemen's hands justifying their arrest, and no crime had been committed of which they were the suspects. The policemen, however, secure in the firm belief that they could do anything to a Negro that they wished, approached the two men, and in less than three minutes from the time they accosted them attempted to put both colored men under arrest. The younger of the two men, Pierce, submitted to arrest, for the officer, Cantrelle, who accosted him, put his gun in the young man's face ready to blow his brains out if he moved. The other colored man, Charles, was made the victim of a savage attack by Officer Mora, who used a billet and then drew a gun and tried to kill Charles. Charles drew his gun nearly as quickly as the policeman, and began a duel in the street, in which both participants were shot. The policeman got the worst of the duel, and fell helpless to the sidewalk. Charles made his escape. Cantrelle took Pierce, his captive, to the police station, to which place Mora, the wounded officer, was also taken, and a man hunt at once instituted for Charles, the wounded fugitive."
| # | Title | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The Story Of Robert Charles Intro |
0 mins 13 secs |
| 2. | A Victim In The Market |
5 mins 53 secs |
| 3. | Burning Human Beings Alive |
10 mins 11 secs |
| 4. | Death Of Charles |
13 mins 12 secs |
| 5. | Died In Self-Defense |
11 mins 28 secs |
| 6. | Escaped With Their Lives |
4 mins 20 secs |
| 7. | Fun In Gretna |
7 mins 14 secs |
| 8. | Lynching Record |
6 mins 07 secs |
| 9. | Mob Brutality |
7 mins 42 secs |
| 10. | Murder On The Levee |
3 mins 21 secs |
| 11. | Shot an Officer |
42 mins 17 secs |
| 12. | Southern Horrors |
6 mins 34 secs |
| 13. | The Black and white Of It |
15 mins 45 secs |
| 14. | The Malicious And Untruthful White Press |
11 mins 02 secs |
| 15. | The New Cry |
6 mins 35 secs |
| 16. | Was Charles A Desperado |
12 mins 32 secs |
| 17. | The Story Of Robert Chales Outro |
0 mins 21 secs |
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