African American Massacres in the U.S.A.
This guide provides information and links to websites that detail the many racially inspired slaughters of African Americans in the United States of America by those considered white Americans.
Clinton MS 1875 Historical marker
The Clinton Riot Historic Marker, Hinds County, Mississippi, March 22, 2018
Photo by Mark Hilton, courtesy Historical Marker Database
Websites
- The Clinton Riot of 1875: From Riot to MassacreMississippi History Now: an Online Publication of the Mississippi Historical society
- Sept. 4, 1875: Clinton, Mississippi Massacre"The immediate death toll included five African American and three white men. Over the next several days, an estimated fifty African Americans were killed."
- Clinton Riot (Massacre) of 1875"A riot-turned-massacre in Clinton, Mississippi, in 1875 was one of the bloodiest episodes of racial violence and lynchings in state history and functioned as the beginning of the end of Reconstruction in the state. "