The Macon, Mississippi, race riot took place on June 7, 1919, in

Macon, Mississippi Macon is a city in Noxubee County, Mississippi along the Noxubee River. The population was 2,768 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Noxubee County. History In 1817, Jackson's Military Road was built at the urging of Andrew Jackson to pr ...

. White members who were angry that black people were organizing to attain better work conditions beat, whipped and then forced them into exile.

Background

Macon has a long history of its white community lynching members of its black community.

Riot

After hearing reports of black workers wanting to get better pay and work conditions a city marshal, a deputy sheriff, and a banker, accompanied by a white mob, attacked and beat several prominent black townspeople, including a school principal. After looting stores, the mob ordered the victims to leave Macon and never return. The ''News Scimitar'' reported it as black people being "taken across the river." The ''Columbus Dispatch'' reported that white mobs had whipped and beaten the black people who they then forced to leave town.

Aftermath

The Macon race riot was one of many 1919

Red Summer Red Summer was a period in mid-1919 during which Terrorism in the United States#White nationalism and white supremacy, white supremacist terrorism and Mass racial violence in the United States, racial riots occurred in more than three dozen ...

riots and is mentioned in Charles E. Haynes's influential report to Congress on them.

Bibliography

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