Sheffield Evening Telegraph , 13th June 1919 It began in the January in Glasgow. Violence erupted between Black and white sailors waiting in a yard on James Watt Street, hoping to be hired. As the Black sailors fled, a mob of hundreds pursued them, armed with guns and blades. The police took thirty of the Black sailors into 'protective custody' and then charged them with riot ; no white men were arrested. The two white sailors who were hurt were taken to hospital, while Tom Johnson, a Black man who had been stabbed, was taken straight to court. Over the next few months violence was perpetrated in cities across the UK, including in London, Liverpool, and Hull. On 6th June 1919, a Black man was attacked in Newport, South Wales, and the attack escalated as a white mob descended on anybody perceived to be non-white. Businesses and lodging houses were burned and eight houses were wrecked. Furniture belonging to two of the households was burned in the street. The day before, in Live...