29. There Were No Plans For A Black Insurrection
Robert Lee Hill was organizing African American sharecroppers as a means of nonviolence to help ensure civil rights. Many of the people who joined his union were veterans who did know how to use firearms. However, we can reasonably assume that most African Americans did not own guns, besides the occasional hunting rifle.
There were no calls for a violent revolt, and certainly nothing on the scale of what the Little Rock Gazette suggested. The rumors were the product of racist hatred and a mob mentality; they were not grounded in any facts on the ground.
