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[1] [5] Reports differ on exactly who fired weapons first, but only one White man was killed and twenty five Black men were killed during the December 7, 1874 event. [3] This was later referred to as the Vicksburg Massacre (or the Vicksburg riots). [1] Following this attack, President Ulysses S. Grant sent federal troops to Vicksburg.
The Vicksburg massacre, sometimes referred to as the Vicksburg riot, [1] was a freedmen massacre on December 7, 1874, that continued until around January 5, 1875, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States. An estimated 150–300 Black citizens, and 2 White citizens were killed during the violence.
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A Columbia man was charged with first-degree murder and other charges after his wife was found dead in a vehicle that crashed into a building in Hattiesburg. The incident occurred around 10 a.m ...
The sheriff's office's preliminary investigation determined that the parents were shot around 1:30 a.m., according to the social media post. The four children were found unharmed by responding ...
Ben Chester White (January 5, 1899 – June 10, 1966) was an African-American caretaker, uninvolved in the civil rights movement, shot down by the KKK. This was likely in an attempt to move focus away from James Meredith’s March Against Fear or to lure Martin Luther King, Jr. in an assassination attempt. This murder went unnoticed by King.
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