Tonkawa Massacre

This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

United States: South Carolina Low‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States articles Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale. This article is supported by WikiProject South Carolina (assessed as High-importance). African diaspora Mid‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject African diaspora, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of African diaspora on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.African diasporaWikipedia:WikiProject African diasporaTemplate:WikiProject African diasporaAfrican diaspora articles Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale. Politics Mid‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Politics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of politics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PoliticsWikipedia:WikiProject PoliticsTemplate:WikiProject Politicspolitics articles Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

This article violates the neutral POV policy in the following ways:

1. Gives undue weight to a fringe theory (a positive take on the post-Reconstruction disenfranchisement movement) with little to no coverage of mainstream historians
2. Uses emotional language ("the black mobs ruled the streets of Charleston", "the white people lived in absolute fear from the black mobs and militias")
3. Asserts opinions as facts ("The inability of Governor Chamberlain and the local law authorities to preserve the peace further convinced the people of the state of the failure of Republican rule.")
4. Cites a disreputable source (Williams 1935)
5. Omits the coordinated, statewide voter intimidation acts conducted by various groups of Redshirts and Democratic party members/sympathizers. Excludes the numerous murders and violent assaults of black citizens.
6. Omits relevant contextual information, such as the political violence and intimidation directed towards blacks and/or Republicans in the years prior to the 1876 elections. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kevinroot (talk • contribs) 01:44, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The article was created in 2006, has had about 30 edits since then, and not one of them thought to remove the blatantly racist material from it. So much for crowd sourcing.Volunteer Marek 01:48, 19 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm working on it with facts and sources from the individual articles about these events; just came across it today. It is so biased and unsourced, the whole thing could be deleted. Williams sounds like one of the Dunning School - everything bad during Reconstruction was the fault of the freedmen.Parkwells (talk) 22:56, 26 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Incidents (Edgefield, Mt. Pleasant) are described and listed without any sources, and it has been difficult to find corroboration of these events. If they are not cited soon, I'll delete them.Parkwells (talk) 20:33, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Tulsa race riot which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 02:45, 21 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]