Is the incident you are referring to the Longview Race Riots? (Reply #3)

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Anon-C (2,681 posts)

3. Is the incident you are referring to the Longview Race Riots?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longview_race_riot

All part of the "Red Summer"...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Summer

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21 replies	Author	Time	Post
An event in Black History that I bet few know about happened 100 years ago. [View all]	sinkingfeeling	Feb 2019	OP
It happened here in Central Texas, too. Really hard to find any trace of it in the records ...	marble falls	Feb 2019	#1
Is the incident you are referring to the Longview Race Riots?	Anon-C	Feb 2019	#3
No, we're about 200 miles south and west of Dallas. This went on all over Texas at about ...	marble falls	Feb 2019	#5
Its so sickening that this was happening all over America, makes me cry.	lark	Feb 2019	#2
Well said - ditto.	iluvtennis	Feb 2019	#16
They are indeed still fighting the Civil War down there....	Heartstrings	Feb 2019	#4
Amazing how much black history gets blacked out. There's still "sunset" towns in Texas.	marble falls	Feb 2019	#6
Yes, I've been down Hwy 5 and it's beautiful. Most of Arkansas is.	sinkingfeeling	Feb 2019	#7
These massacres happened in the midwest too. It is horrifying. nt	SunSeeker	Feb 2019	#8
We are still fighting the same enemy	randr	Feb 2019	#9
Not just there...	The Conductor	Feb 2019	#10
I'm truly sorry to hear this and it was hushed up.	leanforward	Feb 2019	#11
K&R nt	backtoblue	Feb 2019	#12
There were several large white led mob massacres in 1919. There was also one in Springfield	SweetieD	Feb 2019	#13
Don't leave out the "colonial states"	2naSalit	Feb 2019	#14
Horrible. Can't say I'm surprised that happened in Arkansas.	Honeycombe8	Feb 2019	#15
Thank you for posting this.	Lonestarblue	Feb 2019	#17
I only learned about this massacre last year.	niyad	Feb 2019	#18
Just too horrible for words.	smirkymonkey	Feb 2019	#19
Thanks so much for this info.	Karadeniz	Feb 2019	#20
I have heard of this incident. And I wonder if all the 1919 incidents were a result of WWI	GulfCoast66	Feb 2019	#21

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