cairo illinois race riots

Thus, Oberlin, Ohio, an abolitionist stronghold with a good reputation when it came to race relations, drew few black migrants, but Cairo and Evansville, Illinois, drew many. Blocker argues that African Americans sought economic opportunity in .... In 1900, Akron had a race riot in which a white mob "dynamited and burned its own city hall in an attempt to kill a black prisoner," but was foiled by the Ohio National Guard (p. 119). In Evansville, a long and complicated sequence of events...


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Cairo, Illinois


Cairo, IL Denison Gholson Dry

In order to preserve the once great memories of racial riots, in their struggle against the evil white man, our government has decided in its wisdom…to save the Ghost town of Cairo, which has been threatened by an ungodly...
Stalin: Walking the Ghost Town of Cairo, IL. « Joyanna Adams

A hundred and fifty years ago Cairo was a mildly prosperous town of 13000. Today less than 3000 people... In the 1960's the town was racked by race riots and the flight, of both whites and blacks, began. Economic Collapse...
cairo illinois race riots