How America's Legacy Of Racial Terror Still Affects Black Wealth | Forbes

The decades after the civil war saw Black Americans slowly gain more economic and political power in some parts of the country. Some bought land, started businesses and built schools. But in many places where Black Americans succeeded, white Americans sought to destroy that success. While some of the stories may have been scrubbed from the records and textbooks throughout history, survivors and their descendants are speaking out, shedding light on the violent events that took place in their communities and exposing the lingering social and economic damage caused by some of the worst racial violence in American history.

The pins seen on the map in this story mark just some of the more well-documented attacks on Black Americans from the Civil War into the early to mid 1900s. It is by no means a complete list. There are likely many others that have been forgotten and covered up. Further, this list does not include the thousands of lynchings or lesser known attacks committed by white mobs and hate groups.

List of massacres and other assaults on Black communities 1863-1943:

1863: Detroit, Michigan

1863: New York City, New York

1866: Memphis, Tennessee

1866: New Orleans, Louisiana

1866: Pine Bluff, Arkansas

1868: Opelousas, Louisiana

1868: St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana

1868: Camila, Georgia

1869: Jackson County, Florida

1896: Polk County, Arkansas

1870: Tuskegee, Alabama

1870: Eutaw, Alabama

1871: Meridian, Mississippi

1873: Colfax, Louisiana

1874: Coushatta, Louisiana

1874: Vicksburg, Mississippi

1874: Eufaula, Alabama

1876: Hamburg, South Carolina

1876: Ellenton, South Carolina

1875: Clinton, Mississippi

1887: Thibodaux, Louisiana

1898: Wilmington, North Carolina

1901: Pierce City, Missouri

1906: Atlanta, Georgia

1908: Springfield, Illinois

1910: El Dorado, Arkansas

1910: Slocum, Texas

1917: Chester, Pennsylvania

1917: East St. Louis, Illinois

1919: Charleston, South Carolina

1919: Chicago, Illinois

1919: Corbin, Kentucky

1919: Elaine, Arkansas

1919: Washington D.C.

1919: Longview, Texas

1919: Omaha, Nebraska

1919: Knoxville, Tennessee

1919: Ellisville, Mississippi

1919: Wilmington, Delaware

1919: Laurens County, Georgia

1919: Jenkins, Georgia

1919: Baltimore, Maryland

1920: Ocoee, Florida

1921: Tulsa, Oklahoma

1922: Perry, Florida

1923: Rosewood, Florida

1927: Little Rock, Arkansas

1943: Beaumont, Texas

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