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The South Carolina civil disturbances of 1876 were a series of race riots and civil unrest related to the Democratic Party 's political campaign to take back control from Republicans of the state legislature and governor's office through their paramilitary Red Shirts division. Part of their plan was to disrupt Republican political activity and ...
In the broader context of racism in the United States, mass racial violence in the United States consists of ethnic conflicts and race riots, along with such events as: Racially based communal conflicts between African Americans and White Americans which took place before the American Civil War, often in relation to attempted slave revolts, and ...
Ellenton massacre. The Ellenton riot or Ellenton massacre occurred in September 1876 and took place in South Carolina in the United States. The massacre was preceded by a series of civil disturbances earlier that year following tensions between the Democratic Party and the Republicans. Author Mark M. Smith concluded that there was one white and ...
1898 – Phoenix election riot, November 8, Greenwood County, South Carolina (race riot) 1898 – Wilmington insurrection, November 10, Wilmington, North Carolina (race riot) 1899 – Pana riot, April 10, Coal mine labor conflict; 7 killed, 6 wounded, Pana, Illinois; 1899 – Coeur d'Alene, Idaho labor confrontation of 1899
Jesse Jackson of Greenville, SC, led many civil rights campaigns in South Carolina. Public libraries in Columbia and Spartanburg desegregated without controversy. In Greenville, however, on July 16, 1960, eight African-American students protested the segregation practices of the Greenville County public library.
Columbia race riot of 1946. On the night of February 26–27, 1946, a disturbance known as the Columbia Race Riot took place in Columbia, the county seat of Maury County, Tennessee. The national press, which covered it extensively, called it the first "major racial confrontation" after the Second World War.
The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, also known as the Wilmington massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington coup of 1898, [ 6] was a coup d'état and a massacre which was carried out by white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, on Thursday, November 10, 1898. [ 7] The white press in Wilmington originally described the event as a ...
The Phoenix election riot occurred on November 8, 1898, near Greenwood County, South Carolina, when a group of local white Democrats attempted to stop a Republican election official from taking the affidavits of African Americans who had been denied the ability to vote. The race-based riot was part of numerous efforts by white conservative ...