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    The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre, also known as the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot, was an episode of mass racial violence against African Americans in the United...
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    The Elaine massacre occurred on September 30 – October 2, 1919, at Hoop Spur in the vicinity of Elaine in rural Phillips County, Arkansas where African...
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    The East St. Louis massacre was a series of violent attacks between African Americans and white Americans in East St. Louis, Illinois, between late May...
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  • build. Interracial violence became more common, sometimes escalating to race riots. After the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and especially...
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  • the Ocoee Massacre, which was subsequently released to many streaming services on the 100th anniversary the next day. Atlanta massacre of 1906 List of incidents...
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  • rights activism when it was used at protests of the Atlanta Race Massacre in 1906 1906 Atlanta race massacre. The song was first recorded in 1931 by the E....
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    Tulsa race massacre, also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre, was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist massacre that...
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  • Attorney Navigates Jim Crow Atlanta". Georgia Historical Quarterly, Winter 2007, vol. 91, issue 4, 453–477. Rabinowitz, Howard N. Race Relations in the Urban...
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    then-Governor Allen Candler, The Atlanta Constitution, Coweta County, the town of Palmetto, and Jacob Hass of Atlanta. Over the next few days, the furor...
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    S2CID 143935694. Ehrenhaus, Peter; Owen, A. Susan (July–October 2004). "Race Lynching and Christian Evangelicalism: Performances of Faith". Text and Performance...
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    2006. "Atlanta Race Riot". Archived from the original on September 21, 2008. Retrieved September 6, 2006. Charles Crowe, "Racial Massacre in Atlanta: September...
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  • incident anywhere in the state was spotlighted and magnified. To the Negro race throughout the South and to some extent in other parts of the country, this...
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    United States Nadir of American race relations New York City draft riots of 1863 Ocoee massacre (1920) Porvenir massacre (1918) Racism against Black Americans...
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    reports characterized as a race riot. Florida had an especially high number of lynchings of black men in the years before the massacre, including the lynching...
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    Georgia's Women. Atlanta: Atlanta Georgian and Sunday American. Latimer Felton, Rebecca (1919). Country Life in the Days of my Youth. Atlanta, Georgia: Index...
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    The Birth of a Nation, inspired a revival of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in Atlanta, Georgia. Gradually, the new Klan, often appealing to migrants to cities...
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    hall, and several families' homes. 1906 Atlanta race massacre Ocoee massacre Rosewood massacre Tulsa race massacre List of incidents of civil unrest in...
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  • defendants executed for killing a black victim Lynching in the United States Race and capital punishment in the United States Racism against African Americans...
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    the South Side, were heavily implicated in the riots. The 1921 Tulsa race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was even more deadly; white mobs invaded and burned...
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    The Johnson–Jeffries riots refer to the dozens of race riots that occurred throughout the United States after African-American boxer Jack Johnson defeated...
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    exclusion practices and policies. Greensburg, Indiana, experienced race riots in 1906 and 1907. Sociologist James W. Loewen described the town as a sundown...
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  • This is a partial list of massacres in the United States; death tolls may be approximate. For single-perpetrator events and shooting sprees, see List...
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    which the most notorious occurrence was what became known as the Hamburg massacre. It occurred in Hamburg, a mostly black town across the Savannah River...
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    The Omaha Race Riot occurred in Omaha, Nebraska, September 28–29, 1919. The race riot resulted in the lynching of Will Brown, a black civilian; the death...
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    chosen that year to add to the National Recording Registry. 2005: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution listed the song as Number One on "100 Songs of the...
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    The Haymarket affair, also known as the Haymarket massacre, the Haymarket riot, the Haymarket Square riot, or the Haymarket Incident, was the aftermath...
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    The Rock Springs massacre, also known as the Rock Springs riot, occurred on September 2, 1885, in the present-day United States city of Rock Springs in...
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    also known as the Wilmington massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington coup of 1898, was a municipal-level coup d'état and a massacre that was carried out by white...
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    Barber–Mizell feud (1870) Pensacola streetcar strike of 1908 Georgia 1906 Atlanta race massacre 1912 Forsyth County racial conflict Kentucky Rowan County War...
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    government had no program to help them. Racial antagonism erupted in 1919 as race riots of whites against blacks in numerous cities across the U.S.; it was...
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