β’1863 New York, NY: 120 African Americans murdered
β’1866, New Orleans, LA: 50 African Americans*(assume the following figures are all Black) murdered
β’1866 Memphis, TN: 46 murdered
β’1868 Opelousas, LA: 250 murdered
β’1868 St. Bernard Parish, LA: 135 murdered
β’1868 Camila, GA: 15 murdered
β’1873 Colfax, LA: 153 murdered
β’1874 Vicksburg, MS: 300 murdered
β’1874 Eufaula, AL: 40 murdered
β’1875 Clinton, MS: 50 murdered
β’1887 Thibadeux, LA: 35+ murdered
β’1898 Wilmington, NC: 300 murdered
β’1906 Atlanta, GA: 25 murdered
β’1908 Springfield, IL: 14 murdered
β’1910 Slocum, TX: 100 murdered
β’1917 St. Louis, MO: 250 murdered
β’1919 Chicago, IL: 38 murdered
β’1919 Elaine, AR: 237 murdered
β’1919 Washington, DC: 40 murdered
β’1920 Ocoee, FL: 4 murdered
β’1921 Tulsa, OK: ~200 murdered
β’1923 Rosewood, FL: 150 murdered
β’1943 Detroit, MI: 34 murdered
β’1985 Philadelphia, PA: 11 murdered
β’2015 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. Itβs 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).
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