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James Cordie Cheek (1916 – December 15, 1933 [3]) was a 17-year-old [4] African-American youth who was lynched by a white mob in Maury County, Tennessee near the county seat of Columbia. After being falsely accused of attempting to rape a young white girl, Cheek was released from jail when the grand jury did not indict him, due to lack of ...
The Knoxville riot of 1919 was a race riot that took place in the American city of Knoxville, Tennessee, on August 30–31, 1919. The riot began when a lynch mob stormed the county jail in search of Maurice Mays, a biracial man who had been accused of murdering a white woman. Unable to find Mays, the rioters looted the jail and fought a pitched ...
Race relations in the county were tense, and several lynchings had taken place in the recent past. [2] (See Lynching of Henry Choate and Lynching of Cordie Cheek.) James Stephenson, an African-American Navy veteran, was with his mother at a store, where she learned that a radio she had left for repair had been sold. When she complained, the ...
The East St. Louis riots or East St. Louis massacres, of late May and July 1–3, 1917, were an outbreak of labor- and race-related violence by whites that caused the death of 40–250 black people and about $400,000 (over $8 million, in 2017 US dollars) in property damage. An estimated 6,000 black people were left homeless.
Graysville is a town in Rhea County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 1,471 at the 2020 census and 1,502 at the 2010 census. The population was 1,471 at the 2020 census and 1,502 at the 2010 census.
The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre: 1906 Sep 22 -24 Atlanta: Georgia: 27+ Racially motivated massacre against African Americans. 1908 Hickman massacre: 1908 Oct 3 Hickman: Kentucky: 4-8 A mob of around 50 men who called themselves "Night Riders" shot 8 members of the Walker family, four of which are confirmed to have died. [31] Villisca massacre ...
Pages in category "History of racism in Tennessee" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Memphis massacre of 1866; Memphis sanitation ...
Melungeon (/ m ə ˈ l ʌ n dʒ ən / mə-LUN-jən) (sometimes also spelled Malungean, Melangean, Melungean, Melungin [3]) was a slur [4] historically applied to individuals and families of mixed-race ancestry with roots in colonial Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina primarily descended from free people of color and white settlers.