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The Springfield race riot of 1908 consisted of events of mass racial violence committed against African Americans by a mob of about 5,000 white Americans and European immigrants in Springfield, Illinois, between August 14 and 16, 1908. Two black men had been arrested as suspects in a rape, and attempted rape and murder.
The ruins of a Springfield home captured during the 1908 Springfield Race Riot. Between Aug. 14 and Aug. 16, at least five were killed and millions of damages to Black-owned businesses were incurred.
For two nights in August 1908, a White mob laid siege to Springfield, indiscriminately looting, burning and destroying Black-owned homes and businesses, in a race riot that would become known as ...
One of survivors of 1908 Springfield Race Riot was celebrated civil and LGBTQ rights advocate Ruth C. Ellis.
“While the 1908 Springfield race riot demonstrates our nation’s deep history of racial violence, it also sparked the creation of the NAACP — reflecting the strength and resilience of Black Americans in the tireless fight for civil rights," said U.S. Rep. Nikki Budzinski, whose office said she urged Biden to designate the monument.
On Wednesday, there will be a screening of "Springfield Had No Shame," a 30-minute film about the race riot, at Lincoln Library, 326 S. Seventh St., at 6 p.m. There will be a panel discussion ...
1824 – Hard Scrabble and Snow Town Riots, 1824 & 1831 respectively, Providence, RI (race riots) 1829 – Cincinnati riots of 1829, August 15–22, Cincinnati, Ohio; race riots triggered by labor competition between Irish immigrants and southern black migrants; 1831 – Nat Turner's Rebellion, August 21–23, Southampton County, Virginia
Biden signs order to establish 1908 Springfield race riot monument as he looks to burnish legacy By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday designated a national monument at the site of the 1908 race riot in Springfield, Ill., a seminal moment in the United States' long and difficult ...