Racism Around Me

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Three nights against Black Philadelphia

The wall around Girard College

The Bloody Island massacre at Clear Lake

Seneca Village, cleared for Central Park

Bear River Massacre

Freedman's Village, cleared off the Arlington estate

Sand Creek Massacre

Memphis Massacre

Marias Massacre

The lynching of Wyatt Outlaw

Camp Grant Massacre

Chinese Massacre of 1871

Colfax Massacre

Rock Springs Massacre

The expulsion of Tacoma's Chinese community

The expulsion of Seattle's Chinese community

The Chinese massacre at Deep Creek

Wounded Knee Massacre

The lynching of eleven Sicilians in New Orleans

The People's Grocery lynchings

The burning of Henry Smith

The Wilmington coup and massacre

The killing of Postmaster Frazier Baker and his daughter Julia

The lynching of Sam Hose

The 1902 constitution, written in Richmond to end Black voting

Segregated streetcars, and the boycott that answered them

The expulsion of Black Harrison

Atlanta Massacre of 1906

The burning of Antonio Rodríguez

Richmond's racial zoning ordinances

The lynching of Laura and L. D. Nelson

Oscarville and the expulsion of Black Forsyth County

The lynching of Leo Frank

The lynching of Anthony Crawford

The lynching of Jesse Washington

East St. Louis massacre

The burning of Ell Persons

Porvenir Massacre

South Philadelphia attacks a Black woman's new house

The Mary Turner lynching rampage

Charleston Riot of 1919

Chicago Race Riot of 1919

Elaine Massacre

Knoxville Riot of 1919

Longview Race Riot of 1919

The Washington race riot of 1919

The lynching of Will Brown at the Douglas County Courthouse

Ocoee Massacre

The Duluth lynchings

Tulsa Race Massacre

Benson and Kowaliga, under Lake Martin

The destruction of Rosewood

Bruce's Beach, condemned for a park that was never built

The Racial Integrity Act and the Bureau of Vital Statistics

The lynching of George Armwood

Redlining Baltimore

Redlining Philadelphia

Redlining Richmond

Ferguson and the Santee basin, under Lake Marion

Redlining Chicago's South Side

The lynching of Elbert Williams

Prairie Village, restricted by covenant

Manzanar

Queen City, razed for the Pentagon's roads

Tule Lake Segregation Center

The Zoot Suit Riots

Shelley v. Kraemer: the house on Labadie Avenue

The Moore's Ford Bridge lynching

The lynching of Willie Earle

The flood that erased Vanport

Black Bottom and Paradise Valley, cleared for urban renewal

Monroe School and Brown v. Board of Education

Jackson Ward, cut in two by the Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike

The murder of Emmett Till

Rondo, cut in half by Interstate 94

Charlottesville shuts Lane High and Venable Elementary

Fifty sticks of dynamite at The Temple