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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.
Colfax massacre: 1873 04 Louisiana Grant Election Massacre of 1874: 1874 11 Alabama Barbour Coushatta massacre: 1874 08 Louisiana Red River Vicksburg massacre: 1874 12 Mississippi Warren Ongoing for almost one month [4] [5] Battle of Liberty Place: 1874 09 Louisiana New Orleans Clinton Riot: 1875 09 Mississippi Hinds Hamburg massacre: 1876 07 ...
On December 7, 1874, during the Reconstruction-era, the Warren County Courthouse was the site of the first brutal event related to the Vicksburg massacre, when Black citizens were attempting to reinstate the newly elected Black sheriff Peter Crosby who had been coerced at gunpoint by a White militant group to sign a paper of resignation.
Peter Crosby (c. 1844 –1884), was an American sheriff, tax collector, military officer, and businessperson.In 1873 during the Reconstruction-era, Crosby was the first African American to be elected as sheriff in Warren County, Mississippi. [2]
Vicksburg is a historic city in Warren County, Mississippi, United States.It is the county seat. The population was 21,573 at the 2020 census. [5] Located on a high bluff on the east bank of the Mississippi River across from Louisiana, Vicksburg was built by French colonists in 1719.
The massacre started after a Black militia leader, Doc Adams, was wrongly charged with blocking a public road during a July 4th celebration. When Adams showed up for his court hearing days later ...
The siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War.In a series of maneuvers, Union Major General Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate Army of Mississippi, led by Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton, into the defensive lines surrounding the ...
Sunday marked 134 years since a "brutal, cold-blooded massacre" of the Indigenous Lakota Sioux people of the Great Plains, a tragedy that drew more scrutiny from the U.S. government in recent months.