Police-Complicity

Freedom Riders Firebombed in Anniston as Police Allow KKK Attack Without Intervention

1961-05-14 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

On May 14, 1961, the first Freedom Ride bus—a Greyhound carrying civil rights activists challenging segregated interstate transportation—arrived in Anniston, Alabama, where an angry mob of approximately 200 white people, including Ku Klux Klan members, surrounded it. Local authorities had given the …

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Red Summer: Chicago Race Riot Erupts as White Mobs Attack Black Neighborhoods, 38 Killed

1919-07-27 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

On July 27, 1919, the drowning of Black teenager Eugene Williams - who drifted into a white beach area on Lake Michigan and was stoned by white beachgoers - triggered eight days of racial violence in Chicago that killed 38 people (23 Black, 15 white), injured 537, and left over 1,000 Black families …

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