The Red Summer resumed as white rioters attacked the black community in Laurens County, Georgia. The attacks seemed to be related to white fears about rioting that had happened earlier in the summer in the neighboring county. The event lasted two days and featured a lynching of a man presumed to be a leader in the black community on the first day.
Louis Botha, a Boer commander of the Boer War and the first Prime Minister of South Africa. Botha had been a leader of the Boer community during the war and shepherded it into the peace with the British. By some measures, his actions may be regarded as having converted the Boer defeat into a type of victory as South Africa obtained dominion status in 1910 and the Boers effectively governed the new state, with Both as its P.M.
Botha as a Boer commander.
Much of Botha's post Boer War effectiveness was due to his ability to unite Boer aspirations with the larger British Empire, something that was not only difficult but not always popular. During World War One Botha acted to commit troops to the British Empire cause which was enormously unpopular among the Boers and resulted in the Boer Rebellion. None the less, he generally persisted and can be credited with effectively snatching a type of victory out of the jaws of defeat.
He effectively died of the Spanish Flu, which he'd survived, but which had weakened his heart. Like many Spanish Flu victims, he died of the collateral effects of the disease.
The Soviets nationalized its film industry on this day in 1919.
Gasoline Alley for August 27, 1919.
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