History was told incorrectly. and the violence was blamed on the black members of the clinton community. my name is james robinson. i m from here in clinton. lifetime residents, except for a few years. i m debra. james is my cousin. this picture here, my grandmother s grandmother. when she was caught in the proximity of the clinton riot in order to save her child, they hit the child in the tree. and then after, they went back in and got the child. as the article says, old clinton history told from tales by ex slaves. this was published in the newspaper in 1961. as far as the black citizens in clinton, you don t hear a lot about our history.
Against black people during reconstruction is the clinton riot marker. in mississippi? in mississippi. my name is missy jones. my title is a visiting a of history at mississippi college. almost 15 years now, if i think back. what is this? this is johnson milling company. it s been here for ages. but right behind it is the location of the old train depot, and the thought was that we would put the marker for the clinton riot here because of the importance of the train. the clinton riots began on september 4th, 1875, and the direct behind me tells a virgin of those events. the original train depot is
It s anti-dissent. it demands conformity. do you believe they ll stop at the monument? do you think they ll stop with a pattern and design of the flag? they ridicule our traditions. they mocked us. they laugh at us. you feel like you re losing your country, don t you? you feel marginalized. you re scared. mississippi has to stand. we have nothing else to surrender. we are those lawyers, men and women of the soil, stubborn, courageous. we stand here on the edge of history, ready to push back one more time. help is not coming from california. it s not coming from massachusetts. it has to be you. what are you gonna do about it?
Say that they don t tryall thest of town. these are visitors from out of town, who are confederate supporters. and they come here to occupy a city for a couple of weeks and stand their ground. and all that good stuff. but isn t the goal to have more people feel represented? i mean, don t you need to listen to each other? they say that statues is a southern pride. fuck white pride! the source of all this tension and anger comes from the african americans history, bloodlines cost families for hundreds of years. the way they re upholding, okay? so if you can t balance that in your mind, then i can t do anything for your lack of iq or common sense, i m sorry. it s not about race. this has never been about race. we feel like we re having our history stolen from us. this was our only confederate person, and he died here. a diverse neighborhood how is it an inanimate object this simple effect to so that that you cannot see it
Out struggle. and the feeling on both sides was so intense. we re all just romantics, lost in contemporary times you might say. every one of us feels like we were born 125 years too late. to introduce myself, my name is rachel boynton. this is nelson walker. we are independent documentary filmmakers. we re making a film about how we tell the story of the civil war. we re filming in different schools all over virginia and we re going to place this with a deep connection to this history.