Indictments and convictions are divided according to the race of the persons criminally involved as follows:
| Negro | White | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases | Persons | Cases | Persons | |
| Indictments[10] | 6 | 17 | 3 | 4 |
| Convictions | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
There is evidence that the riot of 1919 aroused many citizens of both races to a quickened sense of the suffering and disgrace which had come and might come again to the community, and developed a determination to prevent a recurrence of so disastrous an outbreak of race hatred. This was manifest, as another section of this report shows, in the courage and control which people of both races displayed on at least two occasions in 1920 when confronted suddenly with events out of which serious riots might easily have grown.
MILK WAS DISTRIBUTED FOR THE BABIES
PROVISIONS WERE SUPPLIED BY THE RED CROSS TO HUNDREDS OF NEGRO FAMILIES
This examination of the facts of the riot reveals certain outstanding features, as follows: