âą1863 New York, NY: 120 African Americans murdered
âą1866, New Orleans, LA: 50 African Americans*(assume the following figures are all Black) murdered
âą1866 Memphis, TN: 46 murdered
âą1868 Opelousas, LA: 250 murdered
âą1868 St. Bernard Parish, LA: 135 murdered
âą1868 Camila, GA: 15 murdered
âą1873 Colfax, LA: 153 murdered
âą1874 Vicksburg, MS: 300 murdered
âą1874 Eufaula, AL: 40 murdered
âą1875 Clinton, MS: 50 murdered
âą1887 Thibadeux, LA: 35+ murdered
âą1898 Wilmington, NC: 300 murdered
âą1906 Atlanta, GA: 25 murdered
âą1908 Springfield, IL: 14 murdered
âą1910 Slocum, TX: 100 murdered
âą1917 St. Louis, MO: 250 murdered
âą1919 Chicago, IL: 38 murdered
âą1919 Elaine, AR: 237 murdered
âą1919 Washington, DC: 40 murdered
âą1920 Ocoee, FL: 4 murdered
âą1921 Tulsa, OK: ~200 murdered
âą1923 Rosewood, FL: 150 murdered
âą1943 Detroit, MI: 34 murdered
âą1985 Philadelphia, PA: 11 murdered
âą2015 Charleston, SC: 9 murdered
I had previously known about maybe half of these, but seeing it on a graphic floored me so I decided to look in to the various death tolls. I took the higher figures in every instance because we all know old racist white folk would do whatever they could to minimize the heinous actions of their white communities. Itâs also worth noting that for most massacres, they are typically listed as riots (IMO a racially charged word because of right-wing right media); and a lot of them have 10x as many injured than killed which I omitted those figures for brevity. A (very small) handful of the deaths were white people defending their black brethren, and so I also included those in the figures.
Let this history never be forgotten nor white washed (more than it already has).