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|predecessor = [[James Weldon Johnson]]
|successor = [[James Weldon Johnson]]
|birth_name = John Rhode Shillady
|birth_date = {{birth date|1875|11|1}}
|birth_place = [[County Down]], [[Ireland]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|UK]]
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{{Infobox historical event
|event_Nametitle = Attack on John Shillady
|partof = [[Red Summer]]
|participants = Mob of 8 to 10 white men, including county judge David Pickle, constable Charles Hamby, and Ben Pierce
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}}</ref> in addition to a black eye, he was bleeding from the head, and his body as well as his face was "badly bruised."<ref name=Red/>{{rp|166}} After a doctor stitched his face, the mayor of Austin sent a police officer as escort, at Shillady's request,<ref name=Naacp/>{{rp|10}} and he and his attackers accompanied him to the train station and remained until he got on the next train north, to St. Louis. He was warned not to get off the train in Texas.<ref name=Statesman/><ref name=Red/>{{rp|165}} Visits to him in the [[Waco, Texas|Waco]]<ref>{{cite news
|title=An Interview at Waco
|authoragency=Associated Press
|author-link=Associated Press
|date=August 23, 1919
|newspaper=[[Austin American-Statesman|Austin American]]
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}}</ref> and [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]]<ref>{{cite news
|title=Echoes from Banks of Trinity
|authoragency=Associated Press
|author-link=Associated Press
|date=August 23, 1919
|newspaper=[[Austin American-Statesman|Austin American]]
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<blockquote>Shillady was warned by several persons in the county that his agitation didn't sit well with the people of the neighborhood and that it would be wise for him to desist.<br>When we heard of his going downtown…we decided to go down, meet him, and as private citizens and not in our official capacity, to give him a good thrashing on general principles.<br>Shillady was advocating the doing away of all [[Jim Crow]] laws, the establishment of racial equality as far as use of hotels, restaurants, theaters, passenger trains, [[Pullman Company|pullman sleeper]]s and similar stuff.<ref>{{cite news
|title=Austin Beating Sends Shilladay On North Trail
|authoragency=Associated Press
|author-link=Associated Press
|date=August 23, 1919
|page=2
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In addition to the physical injuries, he was "emotionally crushed".<ref name=Red/>{{rp|263}} "Broken in spirit", the year afterwards he resigned his NAACP post.<ref name=Tuttle>{{cite magazine
|jstor=273678
|first=William M. Jr.
|last=Tuttle, Jr.
|title=Violence in a 'Heathen' Land: the Longview Race Riot of 1919
|magazine=[[Phylon]]