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Date Location Notes
1831 Portsmouth, Ohio All 80 Black residents were expelled under Ohio’s discriminatory "Black Laws."[3]
1870s - 1940s Wyandotte, Michigan African Americans were expelled from Wyandotte on multiple occasions.[4]
April 13, 1873 Pollock, Louisiana
Further information: Colfax massacre
The small black population of Pollock left the town after the massacre of more than 100 blacks in nearby Colfax.
November 1, 1878 Celina, Tennessee Celina's black population left on November 1, 1878 after being subject to a series of violent actions over the course of several months.[5]
1886 Comanche County, Texas White residents expelled blacks from Comanche County because of alleged crimes committed by black men.[6]
1888–1908 Paragould, Arkansas A number of race riots occurred in Paragould between 1888 and 1908, resulting in most of the town's 150 black residents leaving.[7]
1892 Lexington, Oklahoma [8]
1893 Blackwell, Oklahoma [8]
June 20, 1894 Monett, Missouri Monett's black population was expelled after the lynching of a black man who killed a white man during a fight. The Monett expulsion was the first of number of violent expulsions in Southwestern Missouri between 1894 and 1906.[9]
1896 Linton, Indiana 300 black strikebreakers were expelled from the coal mining town of Linton after one of the strikebreakers shot a white boy. Eventually blacks were banned from living in all of Greene County.[10]
August 27, 1897 Elwood, Indiana [11]
April 10, 1899 Pana, Illinois
Further information: Pana riot
Gun battle between striking white miners and strikebreaker black miners results in the deaths of five blacks and two whites as well as the expulsion of Pana's black population.
September 17, 1899 Carterville, Illinois A violent shootout occurred between striking white miners and non-union black miners who were brought into Carterville as strikebreakers. Five black miners are killed. All the surviving black miners left Carterville shortly after the riot.[12]
20th century Edit
Date Location Notes
February 20, 1901 Mena, Arkansas Most of Mena's black population left the town after a black man named Peter Berryman was lynched for allegedly assaulting a white girl.[13]
August 18, 1901 Pierce City, Missouri
Further information: Pierce City, Missouri § 1901 lynchings
300 black residents were expelled after white residents lynched three black men for allegedly killing a white woman.
June 1902 Decatur, Indiana A mob of 50 men forced black residents out of Decatur.[14]
April 16, 1903 Joplin, Missouri White residents drove out Joplin's black residents following the lynching of a black transient for the murder of a white policeman.[15]
July 9, 1903 Sour Lake, Texas A mob of 500 white men opened fire on blacks and chased them out of Sour Lake after a brakeman was shot dead by a black man.[16]
October 1905 and January 1909 Harrison, Arkansas Race riots in 1905 and 1909 resulted in the expulsion of Harrison's black residents.[17]
August 24, 1906 Cotter, Arkansas [18]
1908 Marshall County, Kentucky Whites led by a local doctor drove out blacks from the now extinct city of Birmingham and most of the rest of Marshall County.[2]
November 1909 Anna and Jonesboro, Illinois Whites expelled Anna and Jonesboro's 40 black families after the lynching of William "Froggie" James in nearby Cairo.[4]
September 1912 Forsyth County, Georgia
Further information: 1912 Racial Conflict of Forsyth County, Georgia
98% of Forsyth County's 1,000 black residents were expelled after two alleged attacks on white women allegedly committed by black men.
July 1917 East St. Louis, Illinois
Further information: East St. Louis Race Riots
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.
Fall 1919 Corbin, Kentucky 200 black workers were forced to leave Corbin during a labor dispute.[19]
November 2–3, 1920 Ocoee, Florida
Further information: Ocoee massacre
Ocoee's black community was burned to the ground and nearly all of its 500 residents killed or expelled by whites after black men killed two whites in self defense. At least 56 blacks were killed during the massacre.
May 31, 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma
Further information: Tulsa race massacre
As many as 300 black people were killed and 10,000 left homeless after whites attacked and destroyed the Greenwood district of Tulsa, known as "Black Wall Street".
January 1923 Rosewood, Florida
Further information: Rosewood massacre
Whites attacked and completely burned down the black Levy County town of Rosewood after a black man allegedly raped a white woman. At least 8 people and perhaps as many as 150 people were killed.
1923 Blanford, Indiana Ku Klux Klan-led expulsion.[2]
January 3, 1924 Manhattan Beach, California The Manhattan Beach City Council passed ordinance 263, claiming eminent domain for a public park, in order to take properties owned by black residents and eliminate the African American resort, Bruce's Beach.[20]
1954 Vienna, Illinois White residents burned down all the black homes of Vienna and nearby areas outside city limits. The expulsion was sparked by the murder of an elderly white woman and the attempted rape of her teenage granddaughter by two black men.[1]
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