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G182 filed with K 135

Report of an investigation of the cause, origin, and results, of the late riots in the City of Memphis, made by Col Charles F Johnson Inspector General States of Ky and Tenn. and Major F.W. Gilbreth Aid-de-Camp to Major General Howard Commissioner Bureau R.F. and A Lands

The remote cause of the riots as it appears to us, is a bitterness of feeling which has always existed between the low whites and blacks both of whom have long advanced rival claims for superiority, both of whom are about equal in intelligence, both being as degraded as human beings can possibly be.

Thousands of these ignorant whites and blacks are employed in the city as Hackman, Porters, Draymen, &c While men equally as ignorant and degraded are employed as policemen, who have taken every occasion to trample upon the negro.

This feeling of hatred for the negro race has been fostered especially during the last year by the more intelligent portion of the community, and the incendiary and inflamatory articles which have appeared in certain local newspapers from day to day for months past.

In addition to this general feeling of hostility there was an especial hatred among the city police for