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<P><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>David R. Hoffpauir<BR>Program
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Simulation Training Center,<BR>Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement Management
Institute of Texas,<BR>College of Criminal Justice,<BR>Sam Houston State
University,<BR>Huntsville Tx 77341-3926<BR>936-294-4995<BR>www.incosit.org
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> David C Mayes [mailto:his_dcm@shsu.edu]
<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 29, 2007 8:20 AM<BR><B>Subject:</B> Symposium
on Houston Mutiny & Courts-Martial of 1917-18<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P>Dear Members of the College of Criminal Justice,</P>
<P>On behalf of the History Department I would like to invite all of you to join
us next Thursday evening (April 5) for the 3rd Annual Joan Coffey Symposium.
This year's Symposium is on the Houston Mutiny and Courts-Martial of 1917-18. An
armed confrontation between Black U.S. soldiers and Houston police &
citizens on the evening of 23 August 1917 resulted in the deaths of 20 people,
the largest Courts-Martial in U.S. history, and the hanging of 19 soldiers for
their alleged participation in the riot.</P>
<P>The Symposium will start at 7:30pm in the Olson Auditorium (AB4 room #220).
Flyer link: <A
href="http://www.shsu.edu/~his_www/coffee2007.pdf">http://www.shsu.edu/~his_www/coffee2007.pdf</A></P>
<P>The Symposium program features 3 speakers and will last approximately 90
minutes (with probably Question-and-Answer to follow). The first speaker, John
Britt, is an historian at Lee College and his presentation will concentrate on
the historical events before, during and after the Mutiny. He will also discuss
how ongoing research into the Mutiny has uncovered surprising evidence that
contests certain judicial rulings handed down in 1917-18. The second speaker,
Celeste Walker, is an African-American playwright in Houston who has written a
theatre drama on the Mutiny. Her presentation will focus on how she transformed
this historical event into a script and drama, the challenges associated with
such a task, and the issues in particular she wanted to address with the drama.
The third speaker is Mike Kaliski, a private investigator in San Antonio and
former officer in its police department. He is currently the project director
for the documentary film on the Mutiny.</P>
<P>The Symposium is named in honor of Joan Coffey, an esteemed member of the
History Department faculty for about a dozen years until her death in 2003 after
a long battle with an illness.</P>
<P>I've attached below the Introduction from a booklet on the Mutiny put
together by various people who have been working on the project for a number of
years.</P>
<P>Please invite your students to come as well!</P>
<P>With best regards,</P>
<P>David Mayes<BR>Asst. Prof. of History<BR>Sam Houston State
University<BR>Huntsville, TX 77341<BR>(936)294-1485</P>
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<P><B>Introduction -- Storm In August</B><BR>On the night of August 23, 1917,
during a sudden last-summer storm, about a hundred members of the Twenty-Fourth
Infantry Regiment gathered up their Springfield rifles and marched to the west
end of Houston from their bivouac at the construction site of Camp Logan. Along
the way they fired on startled civilians who blundered into their path. When
they arrived in the San Felipe district, they fought a running battle with
members of the Houston police, elements of other military units stationed in the
city, and some of the community's leading citizens, who had armed themselves at
word of the Twenty-Fourth's approach.</P>
<P>The men of the Twenty-Fourth were Black, their opponents White. Before the
confrontation ended, 20 persons were dead or mortally wounded in the only
racially motivated plot in U.S. history to claim more White lives than
Black.</P>
<P>Less than four months later, 13 soldiers of the Twenty-fourth were hanged on
a hastily erected scaffold on the banks of Salado Creek at Fort Sam Houston in
San Antonio, under sentence by the largest court-martial ever convened in the
United States. They were executed for their alleged participation in the riot,
without appeal or review of the case by the president or the secretary of war,
before the verdicts in the highly publicized trial were even divulged to the
outside world. Within a year, six more soldiers were hanged on the same spot
under sentence by two subsequent courts-martial.</P>
<P>In summary the disturbance and its aftermath appear as inexplicable as they
are horrifying -- on closer inspection, the events are all the more horrifying
because they are anything but inexplicable, unfolding instead with the
inevitability of a Shakespearean tragedy. Despite their unprecedented magnitude,
the Houston Riot of 1917 and its tragic conclusion were but two episodes in a
series of such incidents that were shockingly routine in the experience of Black
military men at the turn of the century.</P><!--
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