Will Brown's False Incident

My Topic is about something you may have not heard about before. But if you did you would be found with a look of disgust and sadness possibly anger. Because you would see what they did to a man name Will Brown. In Omaha, the trouble began on September 25, when a white woman, Agnes Loebeck, reported that she was assaulted by a black man. "The most daring attack on a white woman ever perpetrated in Omaha occurred one block south of Bancroft Street near Scenic Avenue in Gibson last night. This is the one sided story the world heard at first " Coverage in the World-Herald was slightly less inflammatory "Pretty little Agnes Loebeck . . . was raped . . . by an unidentified negro at twelve O’clock last night, while she was returning to her home in …show more content…
There is not much known about Brown, According to his death certificate, Brown died on September 28, 1919, age about forty, a laborer by trade, marital status unknown, and birthplace unknown, But Brown was a human being. No name on record of his parents the cause of death was “bullet wounds through the body and lynched.” Today Brown has a gravestone, donated by Californian Chris Hebert, who learned in a Henry Fonda television special of Omaha’s riot and Brown’s murder. The donor had no connection with Omaha and asked only that “Lest we forget” be engraved on the stone. “It’s too bad it took deaths like these to pave the way for the freedoms we have today. . . . I got the headstone thinking that if I could reach just one person, it was well worth the money spent. The circumstances of the riot and Brown’s death remain controversial”. My thoughts Was he guilty of rape or not did she lie was he innocent, physically incapable of it? Even if he was innocent do you think they would done it? Was the riot a nasty society eruption of fervor, looking at a violent “spirit of the times” in a year of social and economic craziness? Or was it a politically inspired thing, designed to discredit the city? There’s so much things involved in the process with this and we may never know what really happen. Brown’s guilt or innocence remains unknown. He never had the chance to prove what he muttered with his last words: “I am innocent.” They ignored him the presence of thousands of people, few listened to law enforcement a conspiracy of silence protected the participants. Collective guilt prevented individuals from identifying or snitching fellow rioters. Witnesses without remembering and jurors not willing to convict were the riot’s top. Short-lived voices of people who did not know were heard, but mostly let it be there were no problem they saw no wrong in what they were doing,