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American Lynching
1878-1939
United States of America
After slavery was formally abolished, lynching emerged as a vicious tool of racial control used to terrorize Black people in America. More than 4,000 African Americans were lynched between 1877 and 1950, particularly in the south. These executions were often carried out by lawless white mobs, though police officers did participate, under the pretext of justice.
Thibodaux Massacre
November 22, 1887
Thibodaux, LA
One of the most violent labor disputes in U.S. history. In Thibodaux, LA racial violence was used to end a labor strike in the sugar cane industry resulting in the killing of 35 black people.
Rosewood Massacre
January 1-7, 1923
Rosewood, FL
he Rosewood massacre was a racially motivated massacre of black people and the destruction of a black town that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida, United States.
Red Summer
1919
United States of America
RED SUMMER! More than 250 Blacks killed at at least 25 different riots.
Charleston Church Massacre
June 15, 2015
Charleston, SC
On June 17, 2015, a mass shooting occurred in Charleston, South Carolina, in which nine African Americans were killed and a tenth was injured during a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Emanuel AME is one of the oldest black churches in the United States, and it has long been a center for civil rights organizing. The morning after the attack, police arrested Dylann Roof in Shelby, North Carolina; a 21-year-old white supremacist, he had attended the Bible study before opening fire.
16th Street Church Bombing
September 15, 1963
Birmingham, AL
Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley were getting ready for church services when a bomb exploded at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing all four of the school-age girls. The church had been a center for civil rights meetings and marches.
Wilmington Massacre
November 10, 1898
Wilmington, NC
Wilmington Massacre! In 1898 , a group of white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina violently overthrew a duly elected biracial government, killing 60-300 plus.
Springfield Massacre
August 14-16, 1908
Springfield, IL
The Springfield race riot of 1908 consisted of events of mass racial violence committed against African Americans by a mob of about 5,000 white Americans and European immigrants in Springfield, Illinois, between August 14 and 16, 1908. Two black men had been arrested as suspects in a rape, and attempted rape and murder. The alleged victims were two young white women and the father of one of them. When a mob seeking to lynch the men discovered the sheriff had transferred them out of the city, the whites furiously spread out to attack black neighborhoods, murdered black citizens on the streets, and destroyed black businesses and homes
Elaine Massacre
September 30-October 1, 1919
Phillips County, AK
An event linked to Red Summer - The Elaine Massacre took place in Elaine, Arkansas where an estimated 100-240 black people were killed by a white mob assisted by the US Army.
Greenwood Massacre
May 31 - June 1, 1921
Tulsa, OK
Black Wall street! A two-day-long white supremacist terrorist massacre that took place between May 31 – June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, some of whom had been appointed as deputies and armed by city government officials, attacked black residents and destroyed homes and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The event is considered one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history.
American Slavery
1619-1865
United States of America
Slavery in the United States was a legal institution of human enslavement, primarily of Africans and African Americans, that existed in the USA from its founding in 1776 until passage of the 13th Amendment in 1865. However, the first enslaved Africans arrived in 1619 in in the colony of Virginia.
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