What the records say
- When
- 8 Nov 1898
- Kind
- Riot
- Coordinates
- 34.16° N, 82.13° W
- Description
- 1898 riot in the United States
Phoenix election riot
1898 riot in the United States
The Phoenix election riot occurred on November 8, 1898, near Greenwood County, South Carolina, when a group of local white Democrats attempted to stop a Republican election official from taking the affidavits of African Americans who had been denied the ability to vote.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In the U.S., the racial violence in Phoenix, South Carolina, comes to an end after 12 African-Americans have been lynched”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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