Racial Conflict – Mob Violence
Frances Thompson (1840-1876)
Frances Thompson, a transgender woman and anti-rape activist became one of five Black women to testify before a congressional committee...
Bleeding Kansas (1854-1861)
Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent clashes between supporters and opponents of slavery over control of the new territory...
The Slocum Massacre (1910)
The Slocum Massacre occurred on July 29, 1910 in Slocum, Texas, an unincorporated community in southeast Anderson County. The city...
Elaine, Arkansas Riot (1919)
One of the last of the major riots of the “Red Summer” of 1919, the so-called race riot in Elaine, Arkansas was in fact...
The Carroll County Courthouse Massacre (1886)
The Carroll County Courthouse Massacre occurred on March 17, 1886 in Carrollton, the county seat of Carroll County, Mississippi. An incident from earlier...
Chicot County Race War of 1871
In late 1871, Chicot County, Arkansas, was taken over by several hundred African Americans led by state senator and county...
The Moore’s Ford Lynching (July 1946)
On July 14, 1946, four African American sharecroppers were lynched at Moore’s Ford in northeast Georgia in an event now...
Mack Charles Parker (1936-1959)
The murder of Mack Charles Parker is considered one of the last civil rights era lynchings. On the night of...
Isaac Woodard (1919-1992)
In 1946, U.S. Army Sergeant Isaac Woodard challenged a Greyhound bus driver while traveling from Georgia to South Carolina after...
