This massacre was committed against African Americans by a mob of about 5,000 white people in Springfield, Illinois.
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Citizens in the small, predominately African American town of Slocum, Texas, were massacred.
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The National Guard fired on striking miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado.
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In April 1917, soldiers entered the sugar town of Jobabo in eastern Cuba and, according to eyewitnesses, executed several British West Indian men.
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Fifteen Mexican-Americans were killed by Texas Rangers during the Porvenir Massacre.
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White mobs, incited by the media, attacked the African American community in Washington, D.C., and African American soldiers returning from WWI. This was one of the many violent events that summer and it was distinguished by strong and organized Black resistance to the white violence.
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Sparked by a white police officer’s refusal to make an arrest in the murder of a Black teenager, violence in Chicago lasted almost a week. At least 38 people were killed and thousands of Black homes were looted and damaged during Red Summer.
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Black farmers were massacred in Elaine, Arkansas for their efforts to fight for better pay and higher cotton prices. A white mob shot at them, and the farmers returned fire in self-defense. Estimates range from 100-800 killed, and 67 survivors were indicted for inciting violence.
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The Bogalusa Labor Massacre was an attack on interracial labor solidarity in Louisiana.
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More than fifty African Americans killed in the Ocoee Massacre after going to vote in Florida.
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In one of countless white supremacist massacres in U.S. history, white supremacists destroyed a thriving Black community in Oklahoma, known today as the Tulsa Massacre.
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White supremacists destroyed the Black town of Rosewood, Florida, and murdered many of its residents. Descendants have fought for reparations and recognition of the history.
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The Catcher “Race Riot” began in Arkansas, leading to the creation of another sundown town.
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One of the worst massacres of civilians during the 19-year American occupation of Haiti took place in Les Cayes.
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The government of El Salvador launched a murderous, anti-indigenous and anti-leftist campaign that led to the deaths of 30,000 Salvadorans.
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Police shot peaceful protesters, killing 19 and wounding over 200 others in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
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Under the orders of U.S.-backed Dominican dictator President Rafael Trujillo, the execution of more than 20,000 Haitians began in what is now known as the Parsley Massacre at Massacre River.
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A camp warden and guards shot dead seven prisoners being held at the Anguilla Prison in Georgia. The Anguilla Prison Massacre Quilt Project tells that story, drawing on records from the NAACP.
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During the No Gun Ri Massacre, the U.S. Army ordered that all Korean civilians traveling and moving around the country must be stopped.
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Two years before the Kent State murders, 28 students were injured and three were killed in Orangeburg, South Carolina — most shot in the back by the state police while involved in a peaceful protest.
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Student demonstrators and other civilians were killed by the military and police in Mexico in advance of the 1968 Olympic Games.
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The largest LGBTQ massacre in U.S. history (until the Orlando Massacre) occurred at the UpStairs Lounge in New Orleans.
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Dozens of high school and university students in a peaceful protest were killed and injured by the U.S. backed Salvadoran police and National Guard.
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Five people were killed when the Ku Klux Klan and Nazis fired on an anti-Klan rally in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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More than 800 civilians were massacred by the U.S.-backed Salvadoran Army in El Mozote.
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