After receiving racist hate mail, UW students call for action

Well-crafted response on the part of the school's administration. Most likely the correspondence that sparked this was anonymous. That is generally the tact of the small-minded and the cowardly.

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Both groups say they reported the letters to administrators and campus police, who are investigating.

1.) History of School Shootings in the United States

1700s
The earliest known United States shooting to happen on school property was the Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre on July 26, 1764, where four Lenape American Indian entered the schoolhouse near present-day Greencastle, Pennsylvania, shot and killed schoolmaster Enoch Brown, and killed nine or ten children (reports vary). Only two children survived.

SOURCE : https://www.k12academics.com/school-shootings/history-school-shootings-united-states


2.) The 11 mass deadly school shootings that happened since Columbine

There have been many more shootings, but 11 with
four or more victims.

ByMeghan Keneally
April 19, 2019, 9:28 AM ET

SOURCE : https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/11-mass-deadly-school-shootings-happened-columbine/story?id=62494128


3.) Dylann Roof sentenced to death for Charleston church shooting

UPDATED ON: JANUARY 10, 2017 / 5:41 PM / CBS/AP

SOURCE :
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dylann-roof-death-sentence-charleston-church-shooting/


3A.) 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing (1963)

SOURCE :
https://www.nps.gov/articles/16thstreetbaptist.htm


3B.) There Have Been At Least 100 Attacks On Black Churches Since 1956

Recent arsons at churches show the black church is still a target for acts of terror.
By Taryn Finley and Hilary Fung
10/21/2015 05:38 PM ET