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The Manhattan Beach City Council passed ordinance 263, claiming eminent domain for a public park, in order to take properties owned by black residents and eliminate the African American resort, Bruce's Beach. [22] 1954 Vienna, Illinois: White residents burned down all the black homes of Vienna and nearby areas outside city limits.
Cleo Wright was a 26-year-old African-American cotton mill worker who was lynched in Sikeston, Missouri, during the afternoon of January 25, 1942. He was accused of attacking a white woman with a knife and attempting to sexually assault her, and subsequently resisted arrest by stabbing a police officer in the face. [ 1 ]
Kinloch is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri.The population was 263 as of the 2020 census. [6]The oldest African-American community to be incorporated in Missouri, Kinloch was home to a vibrant and flourishing black community for much of the 19th and 20th century.
Little Dixie is a historic 13- to 17-county region along the Missouri River in central Missouri, United States. Its early Anglo-American settlers were largely migrants from the hemp and tobacco districts of Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. They brought enslaved African Americans with them or
Early in Missouri's history, African Americans were enslaved in the state; [1] some of its black slaves purchased their own freedom. [2] On January 11, 1865, slavery was abolished in the state. [3] The Fifteenth Amendment in the year 1870 had given African American black men the rights to vote. [4] As of 2020, 699,840 blacks live in Missouri. [5]
The booking mug shot of Jennifer Hall after her arrest on May 12, 2022. A respiratory therapist, Hall pleaded guilty in 2023 of killing two of her patients in 2002 at a hospital in Chillicothe, Mo.
Police allege the man tried to steal a patrol vehicle but “wasn’t smart enough to figure out how to put the vehicle in drive.”
Four African Americans, identified [a] as Allie Richards, George Adams, Sanfard Taylor, and James Anderson, were arrested on Thursday, November 14, 1919, and held in the nearby Macon, Missouri. [4] [5] It was reported in the press that the four were Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) members and it was claimed that they were from Chicago ...