1863 - New York City drafts riot
On July 13, 1863, as the second day of a new military draft lottery in New York City got underway, demonstrations broke out across the...
1866 - Memphis Riot
In the late afternoon of May 1, 1866, long broiling tensions between the residents of southern Memphis, Tennessee erupted into a three...
1868 - The Deadliest Massacre in Reconstruction-Era Louisiana
In September 1868, Southern white Democrats hunted down around 200 African-Americans in an effort to suppress voter turnout So read the...
1873 - Colfax Massacre - One of the worst incidents of racial violence after the Civil War set the s
The Reconstruction period that followed America’s Civil War was one of the worst, most violent eras in American history. During that...
1908 - Springfield Race Riot
In mid-August 1908, the white population of Springfield, Illinois hastily reacted to reports that a white woman has been assaulted in her...
1912 - This Georgia County Drove Out Every Black Resident
Stacey Abrams’ victory in the Georgia Democratic gubernatorial primary put her one step closer to becoming the first black female...
1917 - Fed up with violent discrimination, these black soldiers took to the streets of Houston for b
It was raining on the night of August 23, 1917, when a group of black soldiers took to the streets in Houston. They were there to protest...
1917 - East St. Louis Race Riot
No one really knows about this. . . . I know about it because my father, uncles and aunts lived through it,” Dhati Kennedy says. He’s...
1917 - Remembering the black soldiers executed after Houston's 1917 race riot
On Dec. 11, 1917, 13 black soldiers were hanged for their part in a little-remembered and deadly race riot. They were condemned to death...
1918 - The 1918 Race Riot in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The 1918 Race Riot in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania began on July 26, 1918, two days after an African American woman, Adella Bond, moved...