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  1. Dec 2019
    1. here they arrested and disarmed about 250 blacks

      The page makes no mention of African Americans ever fighting back with guns other than on this occasion. This is important because the dynamic of the riot changed as African Americans began to gain access to guns late into the 22nd and the remaining days of the riot.

    2. According to the Atlanta History Center, some black Americans were hanged from lamposts

      The page makes brief mention of lynchings but then does not ever mention this again even though there are multiple lynching attempts reported and one confirmed death.

    3. Black men and women were thrown from trolley-cars, assaulted with clubs and pelted with stones.

      Again there are many examples of this that are failed to be mentioned.

    4. 25 to 30 black men and women were killed, with 90 injured. One white man was reported killed, and about 10 injured.[16]

      The page fails to mention how unclear the numbers truly are and only uses one source. There is a possibility of many more unreported deaths and even more injured. The white newspapers and the white population of Atlanta eventually became ashamed of the events and attempted to downplay is significance that could have greatly affected the data that many sources use.

    5. On Sunday a group of African Americans met in the Brownsville community south of downtown and near Clark University to discuss actions; they had armed themselves for defense. Fulton County police learned of the meeting and raided it; an officer was killed in an ensuing shootout. Three companies of militia were sent to Brownsville, where they arrested and disarmed about 250 blacks, including university professors.

      There is a lot more information that could be covered here. For example the white newspapers reported that the the shootout was an ambush (this fact is unsubstantiated but it is important to talk about how white newspapers sensationalized the event), and there was also numerous African Americans killed and wounded in the shoot out that is completely not mentioned.

    6. Alonzo Herndon's barber shop was among the first targets of the white mob, and the fine fittings were destroyed.[15] Individual black men were killed on the steps of the US Post Office and inside the Marion Hotel, where one was chased by a crowd. During that night, a large mob attacked Decatur Street, the center of black restaurants and saloons. It destroyed the businesses and assaulted any blacks in sight. Mobs moved to Peters Street and related neighborhoods to wreak more damage.

      This is the only section that makes good use of specific examples but there are many more that could have been used to show the true violence of the riot.

    7. 10 pm, the first three blacks had been killed and more were being treated in the hospital

      This does not talk about how they were killed, this was most likely due to the attacking of street cars but the artical makes not mention of this except in the intro.

    8. Following this report, several dozen white men and boys began gathering in gangs, and began to beat, stab, and shoot blacks in retaliation, pulling them off or assaulting them on streetcars, beginning in the Five Points section of downtown.

      This does not talk about the scale of the crowd that gathered in the downtown area.

    9. The violence did not end until after Governor Joseph M. Terrell called in the Georgia National Guard,

      The violence continued even after the national guard arrived on the second day, the riot simply moved into the outskirts of the city.

    10. four European-American women raped in separate incidents

      This is not entirely accurate. Some the alleged rape accusations were merely at the most stalking allegations, and some of these events took place during the days of the riot so it is impossible to call all four immediate catalyst.

    11. According to the Atlanta History Center, some black Americans were hanged from lamposts; others were shot, beaten or stabbed to death. They were pulled from street cars and attacked on the street; white mobs invaded black neighborhoods, destroying homes and businesses.

      This is very general but is also the summary. That being said the intro does not discuss the mobs that then ventured into African American communities outside the city center.