The Masotti Report, written mostly by Louis H. Masotti and Jerome R. Corsi under commission by the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, placed blame for the Glenville shootout on black nationalists without placing equal attention to or blame on the Cleveland police department for their role in events leading up to, during, or after the shootout. While the report initially concluded that the matter of blame could not be found, it was revised to conclude that blame was to be placed on black nationalists regardless of which side had initiated the gunfight. In this way, the Masotti report aided police and government officials in their efforts to persecute black nationalist groups and their leaders while stifling black activism on a local and national scale. Masotti, a faculty member of Case Western Reserve University, was later the target of protest by CWRU students on the grounds that his report was essentially an ungrounded piece of propaganda against black nationalism. Following the report's publication, white media outlets presented it as fact and white opposition further mounted against Evans and black nationalist groups. This cartoon, by Bill Roberts, depicts conflict over the report with both sides placing blame for the shootout on each other in the increasingly tense and racially-charged atmosphere that followed the shootout. | Creator: Bill Roberts | Source: The Cleveland Memory ProjectDownload Original File
