Meridian race riot of 1871

When

Mar 1871

Kind

Riot

Coordinates

32.36° N, 88.70° W

Description

race riot in Meridian, Mississippi in March 1871

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Race riot in Meridian, Mississippi in March 1871

The Meridian race riot of 1871 was a race riot in Meridian, Mississippi in March 1871. It followed the arrest of freedmen accused of inciting riot in a downtown fire, and blacks' organizing for self-defense. Although the local Ku Klux Klan (KKK) chapter had attacked freedmen since the end of the Civil War, generally without punishment, the first local arrest under the 1870 act to suppress the Klan was of a freedman.

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